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A modest shotgun house in New Orleans's Bayou Saint John neighborhood shortly after Hurricane Katrina. Shotgun houses consist of three to five rooms in a row with no hallways and have a narrow, rectangular structure. Shotgun house in the Fifth Ward neighborhood of Houston, Texas, 1973, as pictured in a photo by Danny Lyon.
The shotgun house is a narrow domestic residence with doors at each end. This style of architecture developed in New Orleans and is the city's predominant house type. The earliest extant New Orleans shotgun house, at 937 St. Andrews St., was built in 1848.
The Skinny House in Mamaroneck, New York, was built in 1932 by African-American carpenter and building contractor Nathan Thomas Seely on an extremely narrow lot of donated land after he lost his home to foreclosure and his company to bankruptcy during the early years of the Great Depression. The 10 feet (3.0 m) wide house has 3 stories and was ...
New York City's skinniest house - measuring just a svelte nine and a half feet wide - has sold to an undisclosed buyer for a big, fat price: $2.75 million, reports the New York Daily News. The ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar ... Skinny House may refer to: ... Skinny House (Mamaroneck, New York), US; See also. Skinny Building; Spite house; 75½ ...
The skinniest house in New York City has already served its prior tenants well, since it was at 75.5 Bedford St. where the great American poet Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote the poem that won her ...
Madame John's Legacy is a historic house museum at 632 Dumaine Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.Completed in 1788, it is one of the oldest houses in the French Quarter, and was built in the older French colonial style that was still prevalent in New Orleans at that time.
According to Rocket Mortgage, the median square footage of a for-sale house is over 2,000 square feet, whereas Skinny House is 1,109 square feet. The southern tip of South Land Park’s Skinny ...