The Scale of Small // Reviving the Shotgun House
by bg-martin
The Scale of Small Reviving the Shotgun House — an outline by BG-Martin The shotgun house is a narrow rectangular domestic residence, usually no more than 12 feet wide (about 3.6 meters), characteristically with doors at each end. It was the most popular style of house in the Southern United States from the end of the Civil War, through to the 1920s. The style is often associated to New Orleans; however, such typology has spread as far away as Chicago, Illinois; […]
Categories: Archinopticon • Tags: Archinopticon, architecture, house, Shotgun House