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2. Shotgun house - Wikipedia

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   A minor variation is a side door allowing access to the kitchen, or a porch along the side extending almost the length of the house. [3] "North shore" houses are shotgun houses with wide verandas on three sides. They were so named because most were built on the north shore of New Orleans' Lake Pontchartrain as summer homes for wealthy whites. [8]

3. List of neighborhoods in Houston - Wikipedia

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   The city of Houston, Texas, contains many neighborhoods, ranging from planned communities to historic wards. There is no uniform standard for what constitutes an individual neighborhood within the city; however, the city of Houston does recognize a list of 88 super neighborhoods which encompass broadly recognized regions. According to the city ...

4. Architecture of Houston - Wikipedia

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   A number of Houston's earliest homes are now located in Sam Houston Park, including the Kellum-Noble House, which was built in 1847 and is Houston's oldest brick dwelling. [77] During the late 1930s and early 1940s, the Kellum-Noble House served as a public office for the City of Houston's Park Department, and is listed in the National Register ...

5. Veranda - Wikipedia

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   Veranda, as used in the United Kingdom and France, was brought by the British from India (Hindi: बरामदा, Urdu: برآمدہ).While the exact origin of the word is unknown, scholars suggest that the word may have originated in India or may have been adopted from the Portuguese [citation needed] and spread further to the British and French colonists. [6]

6. This Is Why Some Southern Houses Have a Porch Door, or ... - AOL

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   In Charleston, South Carolina, historic homes were built with an airy front porch that included a door separate from the one to the house. That porch door is a hospitality door, according to ...

7. Houston Heights - Wikipedia

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   The Houston Heights, one of the earliest planned communities in Texas, is located 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Downtown Houston.A National Geographic article says "stroll the area's broad, tree-canopied esplanades and side streets dotted with homes dating from the early 1900s and you may think you've landed in a small town."