What are their main characteristics?
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The rooms of a shotgun house are lined up one behind the other, typically a living room is first, then one or two bedrooms, and finally a kitchen in back. Early shotgun houses were not built with bathrooms, but in later years a bathroom with a small hall was built before the last room of the house, or a side addition was built off of the kitchen. Chimneys tended to be built in the interior, allowing the front and middle rooms to share a chimney with a fireplace opening in each room. The house is almost always close to the street, sometimes with a very short front yard, and no porch. A sign of its New Orleans heritage, the house is usually raised two to three feet off the ground.
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