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Shotgun shack, Greenwood, MS by "†OnlyByGrace", via Flickr Rural Mississippi, Railroad Apartment, Shack House, Small Cabins, Shotgun House, Mississippi Delta, Ybor City, Me And My Family, Delta Blues

The "shotgun house" is a narrow rectangular domestic residence, usually no more than 12 feet (3.5 m) wide, with doors at each end. It was the most popular style of house in the Southern United States from the end of the American Civil War (1861–65), through the 1920s. Alternate names include "shotgun shack", "shotgun hut" and "shotgun cottage". A railroad apartment is somewhat similar, but has a side hallway from which rooms are entered (by analogy to compartments in passenger rail cars). A…

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