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What Style is Your Home?
When it comes to cottage styles, variety is the name of the game. View cottages across the country to find out which one is right for you.
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Photo: Maura McEvoy -
Southern Shotgun
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Characteristics:
The doorways of this one-room-wide structure line up so that a buckshot could fire straight through the front door and out the back–hence the term "shotgun cottage."
The central doorway system and large windows create cross-ventilation.
Read About It:
Row: Trajectories Through the Shotgun Houseby David Brown and William Williams (Rice University Press, 2004) $29.95; stoutbooks.com - Next: Victorian Stick Style
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