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A long narrow house in which each room is connected to the next creating a long series of rooms for the home. In a shotgun house you must walk through each room to get to the next. One would enter a shotgun home into the living room walking through the living room to get to the bedroom and then through that into the kitchen. In many shotgun homes you can stand in the last room of the home and look through the open doorways to the front door. So named because the entire house could be protected from one end or the other with a single shotgun.
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