Shotgun houses (Topical Term)

Work cat.: Row : trajectories through the shotgun house, c2004: p. 17 (the shotgun house, an organization of rooms in succession; early American house type, specific to African-Americans) p. 33 (the shotgun cottage, associated with working class African-American neighborhoods in Houston and the South; local, vernacular house type that in late 19th century became a mass-produced, popular house type)

Built in Texas, c1979: p. 141 (Shotgun houses and shacks; the shotgun house is one room wide with end to end alignment, and the front and back doors in the narrow gable ends)

Engines of our ingenuity radio program transcript, episode 820: "Shotgun homes and porches" via Houston Public Radio WWW site, Sept. 15, 2005 (shotgun houses, three or four rooms in a row, with forward-slanting roof over a front porch; originally believed a Louisiana invention, recent research suggests it to be a West African dwelling form, brought to New Orleans region in early 1800s by free Haitians)

Wikipedia, Sept. 15, 2005 (Shotgun house: the Shotgun House is type of house that was popular in America from just after the Civil War until the 1920s; narrow, one room wide single-story dwelling without halls, the rooms all connect directly into each other; house is almost always very close to the street, with a very short front yard and no porch, typically have a wood frame structure and wood siding; From World War II until the 1980s, shotguns were widely viewed as a symbol of poverty; variations are double Shotgun, also called double-barrel shotgun, essentially two shotgun houses connected to each other, and Camelback house, variation that has a partial second floor over the rear of the house)

Google search, Sept. 21, 2005 (shotgun houses, single shotgun houses, double shotgun houses, shotgun row houses, shotgun shacks, shotgun cottages, camelback houses, camelbacks)