My apologies to the large mansions of New Orleans because my truest love is the shotgun! A perfect match for me, a shotgun with its rooms in a row and no hallway....oh my dream house!
This is all one needs for love, peace and a place of assembly. The shotgun is steeped rich in its history with an African legacy by way of Haiti.
When you see a shotgun with its doors misaligned it was certainly an intentional act. Superstition holds the story that ghost and spirits are attracted to aligned front and back doors! That is so New Orleans!
Shotguns, being simple houses or poor people's houses are really filled with passion and a life that whispers New Orleans. For me mansions do not make soul, but a shotgun sure can! Give me soul anytime!!!
"Nor need we power or splendour, wide hall or lordly dome; the good, the true, the tender, these from the wealth of home." Sarah J. Hale... American writer 1788-1879
I agree with you about the soul...give me a house with a unique character any day.
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