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New Orleans style homes have evolved from several different styles over the years. French and Spanish architecture greatly influenced homebuilding throughout the area. Homes can have either steeply-pitched gable roofs extending over wide porches, usually raised on pilings or high piers, or hip roof with flared eaves. Homes can be 2- stories high, and most of this style have a 2-story porch in the front, many with wrought-iron railings in the French style. The Shotgun House was a home only one room wide, but several rooms deep, with a gabled front porch. The doors lined up down the center of the home, with no hallway, to let a cooling breeze flow through the house. They were called "shotgun" houses because of the fact that a bullet shot through the front door could go through the house and out the back door without hitting anything else! The drawback to these homes was the lack of privacy for the bedrooms. Modern "shotgun" houses now have hallways and privacy, but still retain the exterior look of the original homes. A Camelback Shotgun Home had the same details as the regular shotgun home, but had a 2-story section in the rear of the home. Most lots in New Orleans are very narrow, and most times the only way to add square footage to a home was to build "up". Still only one room wide, the camelback section allowed for more space. Click here for more New Orleans style home plans- "Katrina Cottages" |
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