Shotgun
- First appeared in the early 19th century and peaked in popularity beginning of the 20th
- Well suited for warm climates, good air circulation during summer.
- Often do not have side windows
- Close proximity maximizes socialization, front porches often utilized to chat with neighbors, and passing through each other’s rooms brings close contact for inhabitants
- Generally, consist of a gabled front porch and two or more rooms laid out in a straight line without a hallway often did not have indoor plumbing for bathrooms.
- Stacked horizontally
Tenement
- Location NYC
- Popularly known as railroad flats because the narrow rooms were arranged end-to-end in a row like boxcars
- mid -19th century
- Often shabby, poorly designed, unsanitary, and cramped
- Series of Tenement House Laws
- Apartments comprised of a series of directly connected rooms-without a hallway-are a common feature
- Old-law railroad, old-law dumb-bell, and new law
- Also the double-decker
- Often had very little to no ventilation and very little natural light
- Stacked vertically
