Few elements of the New Orleans cityscape speak to the intersection of architecture, sociology and geography so well as the shotgun house. Once scorned, now cherished, shotguns shed light on ...

“Shotgun” houses — typically narrow, rectangular, one-story structures featuring doors on each end with a straight “shot” from one to the other — are closely associated with New Orleans.

The shotgun home has been a fixture of New Orleans since the 1830s. The modest structure, so named because one could, if so inclined, fire a bullet clean through without hitting anything, first ...

So, folklore goes, if all the doors were open and someone fired a shot through the front door, it would pass through the house and out the back door. NEW ORLEANS DEBUT: The shotgun house ...

Among these local design quirks is an adorably petite home style called the Shotgun house. Originally popularized in New Orleans and other parts of Louisiana around the 1800s, shotgun homes are ...

The best Airbnbs in New Orleans put travelers in the heart of the city's biggest features, from a sprawling Victorian right on Magazine Street to a colorful shotgun house for experiencing the city ...

And then there are the shotgun houses, which became popular in the early 19 th century. These were built primarily in Black neighborhoods in Southern cities like New Orleans, Louisville ...

These are the best Airbnbs in New Orleans, priced from low to high. ... A historic shotgun house right on the streetcar line A charming Bywater home in a historic neighborhood ...