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Shotgun houses in Louisville, Kentucky.In cities, shotgun houses were built close together for a variety of reasons. The origins of both the term and the architectural form and development of the shotgun house are controversial, [4] even more so in the wake of conflicting preservation and redevelopment efforts since Hurricane Katrina.
Project Row Houses. Project Row Houses is a development in the Third Ward area of Houston, Texas. Project Row Houses includes a group of shotgun houses restored in the 1990s. [2] Eight houses serve as studios for visiting artists. [3] Those houses are art studios for art related to African-American themes. A row behind the art studio houses ...
Shotgun homes rely on a cascade-style layout, which places each room directly behind the other with no hallways. For example, a living room is often followed by a bedroom followed by a bathroom ...
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. [citation needed] Typically, shotgun houses are one-story, narrow rectangular homes raised on brick piers. Most have a narrow porch covered by a roof apron that ...
The house was originally built in 1927 and redesigned in 1984 by businessman Mark Slotkin. The property boasts a pool and private tennis court, alongside a two-story guesthouse and two-car garage.
JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) - Shotgun homes, once a standard architectural feature among cities across the nation, now find themselves fading away as more fall away from neglect. By definition, the small ...
Thomas Edison House is a historic house located in the Butchertown neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. The house is a shotgun duplex built around 1850. Thomas Edison took up residence in the same neighborhood, possibly even at this location, a part of the time he lived in Louisville from 1866 to 1867.
In the first half of 2015, shotguns were used in 14 incidents at High Desert alone. Three were birdshot, the rest blanks. Throughout the state, on average, officers fired a live shotgun round once every 10 days between January 1, 2012, and June 26, 2015, not including warning shots, according to the Nevada Department of Corrections (NDOC).