'Shotgun' is a long-established house style in the United States, best known for its narrow structure and linear layout. Dubbed shotgun due to its slender architecture that would theoretically allow a ...

The long, narrow and humble shotgun house, ubiquitous in Louisville's oldest neighborhoods, tells a remarkable story of working-class and architectural history, traced back across rivers, seas and ...

*Did you know that the shotgun home and front porch design is a West African phenomenon? The genesis of this phenomenon specifically was born within the confines of what is known today as Nigeria.