Inside New Orleans Greek Revival House If it has… Full-height porches with round columns or boxed piers A parapet (a short wall running the length of the roof) Wide, flat trim around outside windows and doors called a “Greek-key surround” Then you have… The Greek Revival House. Many River Road house museums, including Houmas House Plantation & Gardens and Nottoway Plantation , are Greek Revival structures, as is the George & Leah McKenna Museum of African-American Art . ©Houmas House Plantation & Gardens Double Gallery house If it has… Two stories, with three openings across the front Deep-set covered porches (also known as “galleries”) on the first and second floors A front door that is typically off-centered, on the left or right side of the porch Then you have… The Double Gallery House. Great examples include bed-and-breakfast Degas House and African American history museum Le Musée de f.p.c. In the Garden District, look for Fairchild House Bed and Breakfast and Terrell House . Shotgun houses ©Mary Fitzpatrick, Preservation Resource Center ShotGun If it has… A long, narrow layout, typically one room wide Lack of a front yard, with a short street-front stairway A layout that features one room opening into another, without hallways Then you have… The Shotgun. You’ll find rows of shotguns throughout the oldest sections of town. Creole restaurant Mat & Naddie’s is housed inside a converted double shotgun (a “double” is two single shotguns joined together and separated by a single wall). V I S I T O U R W E B S I T E A T NE W O R L E A N S I NF O . C O M Degas House ©flickr/Warren Westcott 37
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