It is located in the neighborhood of McCoy Hill in Americus . The houses were built c. 1908 to c. 1912.
Matt Hunter
Each house has a full-width front porch supported by simple, square or turned columns, a shed roof, a center interior chimney, a ventilation grill in the front gable, a transom over the front door, and double-hung windows. The interiors are one room wide and three rooms deep. A double-sided fireplace is in the middle of the wall between the front rooms.
The district is an excellent example of shotgun-type houses with Folk Victorian-style features set in a uniform row. Each of the houses retains its features, including a long, narrow form, a floor plan with no hallway, front porches with ornamentation, and front-gabled roofs. The Folk Victorian style was popular in the United States from the 1870 to 1910. The style applied stylistic elements to unadorned house forms.
The shotgun house was predominantly an urban phenomenon, built mainly for low-income workers in large cities. It was the most popular style of house in the South from the end of the Civil War through the 1920s. Once common in Americus, and in this neighborhood in particular, shotgun houses are now rare. These shotgun houses are among the finest remaining in Americus and were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. — in Americus, Georgia. Info from https://npgallery.nps.gov/
Matt Hunter
Each house has a full-width front porch supported by simple, square or turned columns, a shed roof, a center interior chimney, a ventilation grill in the front gable, a transom over the front door, and double-hung windows. The interiors are one room wide and three rooms deep. A double-sided fireplace is in the middle of the wall between the front rooms.
The district is an excellent example of shotgun-type houses with Folk Victorian-style features set in a uniform row. Each of the houses retains its features, including a long, narrow form, a floor plan with no hallway, front porches with ornamentation, and front-gabled roofs. The Folk Victorian style was popular in the United States from the 1870 to 1910. The style applied stylistic elements to unadorned house forms.
The shotgun house was predominantly an urban phenomenon, built mainly for low-income workers in large cities. It was the most popular style of house in the South from the end of the Civil War through the 1920s. Once common in Americus, and in this neighborhood in particular, shotgun houses are now rare. These shotgun houses are among the finest remaining in Americus and were added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. — in Americus, Georgia. Info from https://npgallery.nps.gov/
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