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This is the term for New Orleans’ style of long thin houses – the reference being that if ye stood at the front door, ye could fire a shotgun straight out the back one! Usually they stretch four or five rooms in a row with the doors lined up. A house adjoining two such homes is a “shotgun double.” And a shotgun double with a second floor added in the back is a “Camelback shotgun”. Camelbacks came about when the city based taxes on how many floors a building had on the street.

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