New Orleans Shotgun House
Our 140-year old Shotgun style house is located in the city’s historic 7th Ward/Esplanade Ridge neighborhood, walking distance to the French Quarter, Downtown, and Mardi Gras parades. It is fully remodeled and renovated with two available rooms and two bathrooms, and has off-street driveway parking for up to three cars. It is in a centralized location, so you can Uber or Lyft to anywhere in the city for very little money. For added New Orleans experience and culture, catch a second line parade pass by right from the front porch!
This house is everything New Orleans ⚜️ Perfect for couples, families and groups.
This house is everything New Orleans ⚜️ Perfect for couples, families and groups.
HISTORY:
It has been suggested that the origin of the building style and the name itself may trace back to Haiti and Africa during the 18th century and earlier. The name may have originated from an African term 'to-gun', which means "place of assembly". The description, probably used in New Orleans by Afro-Haitian slaves, may have been misunderstood and reinterpreted as "shotgun".
n 1803 there were 1,355 free blacks in the city. By 1810 blacks outnumbered whites 10,500 to 4,500. This caused a housing boom. As many of both the builders and inhabitants were Africans by way of Haiti, it would have been only natural that they modeled the new homes after ones they left behind in their homeland. Today, many of the surviving period homes in Haiti, including about 15 percent of the housing stock of Port-au-Prince, resemble the single shotgun houses of New Orleans.
There are many large neighborhoods in older American cities of the south which still contain a high concentration of shotgun houses today. Examples include Third Ward in Houston; The Hill in St. Louis; Portland, Butchertown and Germantown in Louisville; Cabbagetown in Atlanta; Village West of Coconut Grove in Miami; and in our very own Bywater, right here in New Orleans. In Miami, the last remaining 25 shotgun homes have been designated as historic structures.
New Orleans Raised Center-Hall Cottage
Situated in the historic neighborhood of Treme, our 100-year old Center-Hall home features a 1-bedroom/1-bath apartment on the first floor.
HISTORY:
Found in the Garden District, Uptown, Carrollton, and Esplanade Ridge, Center-hall homes are urban versions of French-Colonial plantations. These houses are raised enough above street-level that there is sometime a garage or work area on the ground level. Roofs are heavily sloped, and there’s usually a small attic window set above the center door. These homes are nearly always set back from the sidewalk providing a large front yard, which is usually gated. They also feature porches that stretch all the way across the front with columns. Greek Revival and Italianate Center Hall Cottages are most common in New Orleans.
Treme is the oldest African-American neighborhood in the United States, and the birthplace of Jazz. A sub-district of the Mid-City District Area and sometimes called by its more formal French name, Faubourg Tremé, Treme was originally known as "Back of Town." It is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, and early in the city's history was the main neighborhood of free people of color. The "town square" of Tremé was Congo Square —originally known as "Place des Nègres"—where slaves gathered on Sundays to dance. Today, Congo Square is found inside the beautiful Armstrong Park.
Treme retains its especially New Orleans brass band tradition of music and parading called "Second line."
HISTORY:
Found in the Garden District, Uptown, Carrollton, and Esplanade Ridge, Center-hall homes are urban versions of French-Colonial plantations. These houses are raised enough above street-level that there is sometime a garage or work area on the ground level. Roofs are heavily sloped, and there’s usually a small attic window set above the center door. These homes are nearly always set back from the sidewalk providing a large front yard, which is usually gated. They also feature porches that stretch all the way across the front with columns. Greek Revival and Italianate Center Hall Cottages are most common in New Orleans.
Treme is the oldest African-American neighborhood in the United States, and the birthplace of Jazz. A sub-district of the Mid-City District Area and sometimes called by its more formal French name, Faubourg Tremé, Treme was originally known as "Back of Town." It is one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, and early in the city's history was the main neighborhood of free people of color. The "town square" of Tremé was Congo Square —originally known as "Place des Nègres"—where slaves gathered on Sundays to dance. Today, Congo Square is found inside the beautiful Armstrong Park.
Treme retains its especially New Orleans brass band tradition of music and parading called "Second line."
- YEAR FOUNDED: 1783
- VIBE: Poetic, soulful and authentic
- KNOWN FOR: African American history, Authentic Creole food, Second line parades and jazz funerals, Backstreet Cultural Museum