“Shotgun” houses — typically narrow, rectangular, one-story structures featuring doors on each end with a straight “shot” from one to the other — are closely associated with New Orleans. “Many believe ...

“It’s quicker for developers to rip an old house down,” says Brett Zamore, 34, who renovated a house built in the shotgun style–first used by African-American settlers in the early 1800s–for his Rice ...