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  2. Shotgun house - Wikipedia

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    Shotgun house. 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.

  3. Sears Modern Homes - Wikipedia

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    Sears Modern Homes were houses sold primarily through mail order catalog by Sears, Roebuck and Co., an American retailer. From 1908 to 1942, Sears sold more than 70,000 of these houses in North America, by the company's count. [1] Sears Modern Homes were purchased primarily by customers in East Coast and Midwest states, but have been located as ...

  4. Buildings and architecture of New Orleans - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Vanderbilt houses - Wikipedia

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    Townhouse (1883) at 680 Fifth Avenue, New York. The house was a wedding gift from William H. Vanderbilt to his daughter. Demolished. [4] "NaHaSaNe" (1893), the 115,000 acre Great Camp located on Lake Lila in the Adirondacks. George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), Townhouse (1887) at 9 West 53rd Street in New York City.

  6. Queensbridge Houses - Wikipedia

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    Queensbridge Houses, also known simply as Queensbridge or QB, is a public housing development in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens, New York City.Owned by the New York City Housing Authority, the development contains 96 buildings and 3,142 units accommodating approximately 7,000 people in two separate complexes (North and South). [1]

  7. List of house types - Wikipedia

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    An I-house is a two or three-story house that is one room deep with a double-pen, hall-parlor, central-hall or saddlebag layout. [15] New England I-house: characterized by a central chimney [16] Pennsylvania I-house: characterized by internal gable-end chimneys at the interior of either side of the house [16]