{"id":10961,"date":"2022-10-31T14:19:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T14:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/?p=10961"},"modified":"2023-04-15T12:47:39","modified_gmt":"2023-04-15T12:47:39","slug":"shotgun-houses-and-modern-front-loaded-homes-with-a-lengthwise-floor-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.projectsmallhouse.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/shotgun-houses-and-modern-front-loaded-homes-with-a-lengthwise-floor-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Shotgun Houses and Modern Front Loaded Homes with a Lengthwise Floor Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

What are front-loaded homes?<\/h2>\n

They are narrow houses with the front on the narrow end. Many tiny houses are front-load. Often they have a front porch. The photo at the top of this page, the birthplace of Elvis Presley, is a front-loaded house with a front porch.<\/p>\n

What is a Lengthwise Floor Plan?<\/h2>\n

Lengthwise just means in the direction of the longest side. A home with the entrance on the narrow side is going to have a lengthwise floor plan, with one room leading into another.<\/p>\n

An earlier term is shotgun style.<\/p>\n

Shotgun houses are charming, modest homes instantly recognizable for how narrow they are\u2026 Shotgun houses are small, single-story houses that are only one room wide (typically no more than 12 feet across) and two to four rooms deep without any hallway, which means you have to walk through each room to get to the next.<\/p>\n

What Is a Shotgun House?<\/a>
\nSouthern Living, Maggie Burch, July 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

More current houses are usually wider, with a hallway. But these narrow houses didn’t have space to waste.<\/p>\n

The floor plan of historic shotgun houses typically went this way: The living room would be at the front of the house, followed by one or two bedrooms, with the kitchen at the back of the house. When first building these homes in the early 1800s, bathrooms weren’t part of the house but were often added later in a rear or side addition.<\/p>\n

What Is a Shotgun House?<\/a>
\nSouthern Living, Maggie Burch, July 2022<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Modern front loaded homes with a lengthwise floor plan usually have the bedroom at the back of the house. Typically you walk through the kitchen to reach it. A bathroom is often opposite the kitchen.<\/p>\n

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Shotgun houses near Mount Vernon, Alabama
George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith’s America<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I first moved to Ft. Lauderdale, there were still a few shotgun style houses about a block away from me. They looked exactly like the houses in the photo above, except painted blue. That was the first time I had ever heard of a shotgun house. I explored because I thought they were abandoned, but they weren\u2019t. An old man lived in the one in the middle. He told me it was a shotgun house because he could shoot out the front door from the back of the house. He lived in the one house and used the other two next to him as storage.<\/p>\n

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Shotgun Houses in New Orleans
Left and Right Photos by Infrogmation
Center Photo by David & Karyn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

New Orleans is known for the neighborhoods of shotgun houses. But you can find them in a lot of other states, too.<\/p>\n

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Shotgun House in Thomas, Alabama
Robert Martin, Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This shows a typical shotgun house. The front entry room is labeled as a bedroom, too.<\/p>\n

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Camelback Shotgun House in New Orleans
Photo by Infrogmation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Sometimes there is a two-story area on the back of the house, making it a Camelback Shotgun House.<\/p>\n

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Kuntz Shotgun House, 1401 East Washington Street, Louisville, Jefferson County, KY
Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This plan shows a typical layout of a camelback shotgun house with the bedroom upstairs.<\/p>\n

The obvious advantage to this design is that a lot of little houses could be put side-by-side on narrow lots. They were put all in a row, so they are also called row houses.<\/p>\n

Modular and Mobile Front-load Homes Available Now<\/h2>\n

Clayton Homes has these front-loaded home with a lengthwise floor plan. They are available as modular manufactured homes or on-frame mobile homes.<\/p>\n

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Clayton Homes K1640A<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

K1640A Front-load Modular Home<\/h2>\n

K1640A<\/strong>
\n1 Bed\/ 1 Bath
\n620 sq. ft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is the smallest one I could find. It has one bedroom and one bathroom on a single 620 square foot level.<\/p>\n

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Clayton Homes K1640A<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is the practical floor plan, not showing the porch.<\/p>\n

Clayton Homes K1640A Front-load Modular Home<\/a><\/p>\n

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Clayton Homes 928 Advantage Plus 6016 Front-load Modular Home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clayton Homes 928 Advantage Plus 6016 Front-load Modular Home<\/h2>\n

928 Advantage Plus 6016<\/strong>
\n2 Bed\/ 2 Bath
\n930 sq. ft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This small house has two bedrooms and two bathrooms fitted into 930 square feet, not counting the porch.<\/p>\n

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Clayton Homes 928 Advantage Plus 6016<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is the floor plan, with a hallway to reach the rest of the rooms.<\/p>\n

Clayton Homes 928 Advantage Plus 6016 Front-load Modular Home<\/a><\/p>\n

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Clayton Homes Blazer 66 F Front-load Modular Home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clayton Homes Blazer 66 F Front-load Modular Home<\/h2>\n

Blazer 66 F<\/strong>
\n3 Bed\/ 2 Bath
\n1,034 sq. ft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This house is larger, with three bedrooms and two bathrooms fitted in more than 1000 square feet.<\/p>\n

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Clayton Homes Blazer 66 F<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

There are three bedrooms and the master bedroom has a big walk-in closet.<\/p>\n

Clayton Homes Blazer 66 F Front-load Modular Home<\/a><\/p>\n

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Clayton Homes Residence SW 12 7616-SW0 Front-load Modular Home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clayton Homes Residence SW 12 7616-SW0 Front-load Modular Home<\/h2>\n

Residence SW 12 7616-SW0<\/strong>
\n3 Bed\/ 2 Bath
\n1,083 sq. ft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This house is also larger, a little more than 1000 square feet. It has three bedrooms and two bathrooms.<\/p>\n

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Clayton Homes Residence SW 12 7616-SW0 Front-load Modular Home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The front porch really makes all the difference.<\/p>\n

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Clayton Homes Residence SW 12 7616-SW0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This house is 16-feet wide. With the front porch, it is 76-feet long.<\/p>\n

Clayton Homes Residence SW 12 7616-SW0 Front-load Modular Home<\/a><\/p>\n

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Clayton Homes Pulse 7616-773P Front-load Modular Home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clayton Homes Pulse 7616-773P Front-load Modular Home<\/h2>\n

Pulse 7616-773P<\/strong>
\n3 Bed\/ 2 Bath
\n1,084 sq. ft.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This house is also a little more than 1000 square feet with three bedrooms and two bathrooms.<\/p>\n

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Clayton Homes Pulse 7616-773P<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The house is 16-feet wide, so there is more room for a hallway, without squashing the bedrooms as much.<\/p>\n

Clayton Homes Pulse 7616-773P Front-load Modular Home<\/a><\/p>\n

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Birthplace of Elvis Presley, a Shotgun house in Tupelo, Mississippi
Photo by Mark Uskun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The featured image is the birthplace of Elvis Presley, a Shotgun house in Tupelo, Mississippi, photo by Mark Uskun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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