architectural styles: Shotgun Houses, Camelback Homes and Other Creative Names for Architectural Styles
- 07/11/10 05:59 AM
I grew up in the 6000 Block of Annunciation Street in New Orleans in what is locally referred to as a Shotgun House. I can still recall the weathered cypress planks that adorned its long sides; the roof was composed of gray hued slate tiles. Rooms were spacious and ceilings were exceptionally high. The deep yard was bare of trees or shrubs and the home raised several feet off the ground on red clay bricks, known as pier and beam foundation. My grandmother owned the home and I was told the house originally stood adjacent to fields of sugar cane, built around the mid-1800's. There's a great (9 comments)