"Nola House Available" Topic

They are called "shotgun" houses (because you could fire a shotgun from the front door to the back door and (typically) not hit anything.

Additionally, you should also make a variation that has a single roof (with the ridge running long-ways and the gables over the front and rear doors) You should then also include a addition to roof in the rear of the building that would allow a loft at rear (this is referred to as a "camelback shotgun").

Actually, that one wasn't a shotgun house--it's a small cottage with an addition on the back. You see the same out here on the Mojave Desert where I live now. OTOH, I've got a set of shotgun houses based on those in New Orleans for sale as well :)

When I did the original shotguns, I thought about doing a camelback, but didn't. There's also a variety that has a simple addition connecting two shotguns, making an H.

Truthfully, I just fell in the love with the original on my way to the airport (at 4 freekin' AM) and wanted to model it.

On a shotgun house, the roof peak is parallel to the length of the house, configured to have one room leading to another leading to another running the length of the house (borrowing a French/Mediterranean/African tradition of houses being in a 1x2 or 1x3 room configuration, unlike a Northern European tradition of 1x2 or 2x2).

Glenn,

I don't recall any "H" style shotgun doubles growing up, just side by sides sharing a common roof (I was born in one of those, actually).

Truthfully, the existing models could be easily modded to camelbacks, so no grief there. Those models did make me recall my childhood though, so :-)

As an aside, you may want to Google Benny Grunch and the Bunch, "Santa and his reindeer used to live right here." funny little sing about Santa living in a shotgun double before moving to the north pole.

Oh yes! I remember my grandmother (Maw Maw) living in a shotgun house on Rocheblathe St in N'awlins waay back in the early seventies. The reason why so many old homes in NOLA were built like that was under old city tax laws homes were taxed upon how wide its street frontage was.
My grandmother's old house was a duplex built in the 1830's. She moved there in 1938 with my Grandpa (Paw Paw), Mom, and Aunt; raised them and my Uncle there and lived there until 1974 when she and my Paw Paw moved to Chalmette, LA. What few childhood memories I have of it were that it was a happy place. I also remember her cat Buster. He was an extremely good mouser and extrordinarily patient and friendly cat as he and I got along like peas in a pod. Ah what memories. Thanks for doing this model sir as it evokes some great memories. Salut y'all!

Bruce the Texas Grognard