Shotgun houses are one-story and very narrow structures—we ... and then there are two or three rooms directly behind that initial room—maybe two bedrooms and then a kitchen in the very ...

Shotgun houses are almost always one story unless they've been adapted to “camelback” style, which adds an additional story toward the back of the house to accommodate larger families.

“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.