A Young Person’s Guide to New Orleans Houses (1992)

House Types

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  • glossary/french-colonial-plantation-house/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="bb02d90ae8fc3249c7447bc1a5cf4d23" target="_blank" >French Colonial Plantation House
  • Creole Cottage
  • porte-cochere-townhouse/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="fb02f424e8ed60a2e3705cb777fe6d22" target="_blank" >Porte Cochere Townhouse
  • Outbuildings
  • American Townhouse
  • American Cottage
  • Shotgun Single
  • Shotgun Double
  • Camelback
  • Georgian Colonial

The Colonial Period (1718-1803)

  • The Pitot House

The Postcolonial Period (1803-1830)

  • Creole Cottage
  • Outbuilding
  • Porte-Cochere Townhouse

The Antebellum Period (1830-1862)

  • revival/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="d848f2a224334bf198f7ce38b2727fb6" target="_blank" >Greek Revival Shotgun House
  • Greek Revival Raised American Cottage

The Victorian Period (1862-1900)

  • style/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="42620187451704f499c2f19e7f91d4b8" target="_blank" >Eastlake Shotgun Double
  • Bracket Shotgun Single
  • queen-anne-style/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="8b733ee239aadf9ea4be3f6c4400019e" target="_blank" >Queen Anne House

The Early Twentieth Century (1900-1940)

Glossary

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arch

architrave

attic

balcony

baluster

balustrade

barrel-tile/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="9fe95086d68c30ca05b635d9a3f6e3b0" target="_blank" >barrel tile

bays

beveled-glass/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="792ab0312c0841f60017583234670fb6" target="_blank" >beveled glass

bracket

cantilevered

capital

window/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="5f67fd917aaf82803e145ac74b779a56" target="_blank" >casement window

cast-iron/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="cfba752128a7d7c79888bce1acdf2955" target="_blank" >cast iron

classical architecture

colonnette

column

Corinthian order

cornice

courtyard

Creole

dentils

Doric order

dormer

double

hung-window-2/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="9a45f7526729e61f17ff64daca331b63" target="_blank" >double-hung-window/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="89766c158038f6e3ef4b193eda6a572f" target="_blank" >double-hung window

pitched-roof/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="1ea620d95fad71f8a96918be0f49cc73" target="_blank" >double-pitched roof

eave

entablature

facade

finial

fire-walls/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="9b586a150a2320588e494359a193034d" target="_blank" >fire walls

doors/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="3c513a7d7cae383a33da61631da4608e" target="_blank" >French doors

frieze

gable

hip-and-gable-roof/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="ccbc4787375d09d95d039d2b6bf8606e" target="_blank" >gable-on-hip roof

gallery

key-surround/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="d9d37304f1949f5749b1dbe57ec4f7c1" target="_blank" >Greek key surround

hipped-roof/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="08b149cc56b8ed7b7d56c9c3b136bc36" target="_blank" >hipped roof

columns/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="ed0b86a754e5c9b68d6b1e93e27225ab" target="_blank" >Ionic order

light

louver

order

ornaments

parapet

pedestal

pediment

piercework

piers

pillar

pitch

plaster

porch

porte cochere

portico

rusticated-stone/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="1dd0660f95b8b9e1c704dae47df621a6" target="_blank" >ashlar-quoins/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="ab3a792b901ff716c2fbac0f64da8e1d" target="_blank" >quoins

rafter

row-houses/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="cf00c3eb84b4328c91db7074d402cfd6" target="_blank" >row houses

segmental-arch/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="6504ff85710e8fe6e08e51c7424b530f" target="_blank" >segmental arch

shed-roof-3/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="adbdb8c4141b7ab5e9895a34e8a754b3" target="_blank" >shed roof

shingles

shutter

sidelights

siding

single

spindle

band/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="5eb23feadedfc25de83c181270246c3c" target="_blank" >spindle band

stained-glass/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="91fa2b8b6389fb5175c971da91b4c6f2" target="_blank" >stained glass

stucco

turned-wood/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="1180bd45ebce5c1e0640f52f74e1bbad" target="_blank" >turned wood

transom

trim

weatherboard

frame/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="d2b6b5fd560bece918ec81cb845229ee" target="_blank" >wood frame

wrought-iron/" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip="0b6f94855880f75d5a4ef035c7308147" target="_blank" >wrought iron

Source Citation

Vogt, Lloyd. A Young Person’s Guide to New Orleans Houses. New Orleans, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing. 1992.