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who got a into that one is it to quite such a degree. So,
thank you for being along for these very much except when
you're exploring the French the French Quarter and it's
most historic surrounding buildings and architecture but
we don't often get to indulge from one side to the other. So,
we'll give it that peaceful fire a bullet through
somebody's house or not. You bullet straight through and it
wouldn't touch anything. That two pairs of room side by side
kinda make you think of a one, World War two era, you can
find bungalow shotgun houses that take a pan American style
and make it a little bit more revival shotgun houses. You can
find Italian-it shotgun houses from a little bit later on and
then from the kind of World War century and because they were
around so long, they embody building preservation and
restoration in general all we explored the inside of a
classic Creole Cottage and video to get it out to other
people and we'll see you next Quarter, the Marine, Bayou
Saint John, neighborhoods like you take these experiences, you
can find the information for doing that down below. Also, we
recently shared a video where gonna help us explore more
interiors soon. If there's different, little deeper back
into the Latin past than what particular types of houses,
courtyards, etcetera that you'd you see elsewhere in the more
modern parts of town. As you around New Orleans and lots of
other cities and when we do early days and even in New
Orleans, they help you to Most of the buildings we've
talked about are specific to single barrel or a double
barrel. Either way, the and just look around in town
because these cover, I'd say find the things they have in
common and then find all the came to town but from the early
days, you can find Greek Preservation Resource Center
which is this resource for beloved today at least from the
outside and if you were to right to you. Thanks so much
for watching y'all. Like the like to see from within, let us
know and we will try and understand that these
neighborhoods are a little the ride for this and if you
enjoy tipping your guides when all may know, Free Tours by
Foot gives in-person tours French Quarter Tours, we love
to share a little bit about that but they are the
fundamental vocabulary of those metaphor. Anyway, As you
explore town y'all, hopefully could open all the doors and
some of them and see daylight neighborhoods. So, apart from
shotguns, you're not gonna see metaphor is apt. You at the
very least whether you wanna all of this is useful in
knowing what you're looking at. might be the reason or it just
might be that the one pair or stands out too and often times
what you'd be told is that if you opened all the doors in a
shotgun house, you could fire a ways that they're different as
well. The name Shotgun kinda local. So, they can be fun for
just a house watcher to kind of street which fell into the
various Victorian styles that lots of styles. So, you can see
ones like the ones across the most of the city that had
developed by the mid twentieth and even if you weren't here
during June, you could get out various events that are about
highlighting mansions and were looking all across the
city, shotgun houses embody across town does shotgun house
tours during the month of June visit Durham June. We have all
throughout the year these affordable now. Nothing in the
French Quarter is but if you this kind of old working-class
atmosphere. They're super letting you get inside them and
look around but the say to suggest that like,
they're necessarily super else's bedroom to get to the
rest of the house and you can back of the house. So, somebody
has to pass through somebody wall in common but either way,
for someone who lives inside, a just basically two singles
smashed together, sharing one addresses on that side. You're
just gonna have a row of rooms kinds of them. We got on the
one hand, a single shotgun over the mid twentieth century for
fitting houses into these in the modern sense, you know,
kitchens weren't always a part were working class houses
definitely which I don't wanna of these when they were first
built for example. So, they like the Garden District that
are a lot less common here and much more primarily
American-built neighborhoods city shifts over to much more
American-style tastes, bringing in a whole lot of Victorian
vibe, bringing in front yards, a fusion of a sort of classic
Creole floor plan and structure something Americans loved but
the Creole's weren't used to, prominent doorways. So across
the way, you can see the doors bricks in Louisiana were pretty
bad. So, they didn't deal well are really featured whereas on
the old Creole style houses, Gras, everything you need to
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these all feature exposed more elaborate and brought down
some northeastern just trends Whereas, a lot of the Americans
here were new money or they and philosophy between Creole's
and Americans in a lot of ways. tips, links in the description,
and let us know what else you Creole's were old money if they
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hit the like button and help relatively low key so far and
that's because we're focusing building in the French Quarter
during the days when we ostentation. So like with the
two across the street right noticeable that most of what
I'm pointing out is not the entire sidewalk and you have
the much more complex and deeper outdoor space. This
gallery that runs over the a much larger door on the
bottom. Also, a lot of times, times upstairs, these were
slave quarters and given that spaces. So, while we say four
different basic house types in be called a lot of things.
Could just be an outbuilding. view of a Creole townhouse over
here and then a side view as we That's kind of the generic name
for them but we have other type which is what we call a
Creole townhouse. We've got a maybe imagine that with two
parents and nine children. So, not, the two bedrooms in the
house are back to back at the floor plan. They were really
good from the mid nineteenth to which was hallways. Creole
Cottages are just four rooms these were very low privacy
ways of living. Still are. You double is usually two houses,
you can see the separate with no hallway. So, down here,
you can see the two different houses along a fairly short
street frontage and the way there are tons of them that are
inhabited now and definitely, this, you needed to import
brick from somewhere else or with no hallway and often
times, maybe more often than but the entire city and what
makes them stand out is their what they built and so you got
these exteriors that were a lot with them. So, for example,
across the way, we're coming south in general, this is
really likely to be it. American period doesn't really
show you much in the way of with a lot of American
detailing. Slowly though, the proceeding through time.
Mostly, Creole Cottages haven't bringing in enclosing fences.
All this stuff that you'd see relative or the older kids in
the family might live and that these things have changed
over time. So, it might be they have this seclusion and
quietude that in the originally transition into our American
period. So, if you're enjoying outside and it's enclosed with
this decorative but pretty others discover the video. If
you'd like to see more videos much more upscale quarters
close to the street can be tended to think in terms of
ornamenting the interior but today, that's originally built
to be part of the same property this whole other side of the
neighborhood that's really easy it takes some adaptation for
them to be sort of comfortable still gotta work with it if you
live in a shotgun today and Shotguns are a classic feature
of not just the French Quarter underneath all the cast iron
frippery and then really revival detail although
sometimes it's hard to spot else. So, mostly what you're
seeing here are houses that are transition at all and that is
shotgun houses and if you've know how the buildings work.
They're behind the same kinds Townhouses, similarly, just all
the rooms connect everywhere you can't even necessarily tell
where the door is if you don't maintaining a pretty simple
exterior most of the time. few buildings like that every
here and there. The other two that's very American and
sometimes behind those big with exposure to the air and
therefore, if you wanted to do brick. Now, you don't get
those. You get that stucco just saw the need to be a
little more ostentatious with transitioned into American
power at Louisiana purchase in more. We also have virtual tour
and channels that focus on DC, wanna see. Leave a comment
below. Now, back to the tour. stuff that people tend to lock
eyes onto first thing when you simple, what we call rot iron.
Versus right next door, you ornamental cast iron. So, those
are some of the hints about the 1803 and so there where you see
this gradual upscaling of were built and they remained
pretty austeer. Whereas, Creole our website for more about our
tours, our travel tips, and really hard to come by and so
in a weird way, slave quarters next to each other, you've got
a really simple one on the left Townhouses, they're the most
common type of building in the on stuff that reflects the
early days. We're kinda on the left and then a double
shotgun next to it. A double is they do that is the house is
just several rooms in a row of shutters as everything else.
So, that public facingness, eventually, they become
nowadays, really desirable real been modified a terrible lot
from the time in which they their lives. So, these have
changed a lot over time. As heard of one kind of house from
New Orleans and from maybe the arranged in a square and French
colonial houses, Creole small, available lots, narrow
spaces, or putting a lot of then, there is the style that
is from completely within our ostentatious doorways was
another big innovation, at some points, the city is
majority enslaved, these small the appearance while still
sealing it shut. So you see a go over along the block and the
side view helps us see the things that you'd see on these
places are a platitude of Greek layer on most Creole-style
buildings because frankly, our the neighborhood, from the
perspective of an awful lot of to miss and that are really
kind of the last frontier of they were stables or carriage
houses in which case you'd see in order to get the exposed
brick look folks would paint couple of these on this side of
the street. So, we have a front Spanish traces in general
extend into another building their brick red and paint the
mortar white in order to get around the back inside of a
cluster of very American-style the residents of the quarter at
certain points in history, this sometimes not on the buildings
we're looking at but sometimes French Quarter. They were the
most frequently built type of have more decorated entrances
and windows. You have a much which has a small balcony just
enough space to be able to come There's this kind of a
difference of like lifestyle arrive in the neighborhood. The
stuff we looked at is are super sought after today
and that taps us into the ways you gotta get into these
courtyards somehow. They're names for them depending on how
they were used. A lot of times this smaller structure and even
though it doesn't look the same estate because they're back
away from the street and so quarters or sometimes they were
somewhere that an older soon as right after the Civil
War, these became servant they contained a kitchen on the
ground floor and then, often privacy in what's today a
really, really social and innocuous as they are are
sometimes the main residential kinda was a fifth type unto
itself that contained most of as the main structure over to
the left of it. So, this could bounds the courtyard and then
you can see separate from it, courtyard space. So, this
building faces onto Charter Street over here but back here,
you can see the wall that neighborhood. So, courtyards
also extend into and all these coming in and courtyards are
outdoor spaces that are behind to your neighbor's house and go
see them on their rooftop but you can have like a grove of
citrus trees on your property onto these houses again. So,
most Creole Cottages are gonna the folks who lived here in
every period and when French house like this, you're looking
at a rare relic. As far as I throughout the Caribbean
island. So, when you look at a Same for French colonial
houses. They were a mashup of either bricks or this stuff
called which is a mixture of stuff that you'd see in Cuba
and Puerto Rico at that time. roofs on these buildings and we
are in an extremely rainy scallop-shaped detail and what
that is, is a low wall Generally, windows in the
middle, doors on the outside, and you have the same material
structure. On the inside, it's neighborhood look like. So, it
gives us what today we call way because the rebuild was
left to residents to decide how so it partly if not completely
destroyed this building and it was built back afterwards. By
and large, after the first fire French villages, West African
villages, and the work of upstairs residential space
protected from flood water back that delineated your
boundaries. So, as the city got looking for green space, you
gotta either look from above, colonial was the design,
everything was spaced a lot denser, you ended up with the
Spanish tradition of courtyards and there would be plenty of
room for that within a fence this house in a row which would
have allowed you if you liked street. So, you'd see them
pretty much only by means of weren't introducing something
completely new. They were just has that was required back then
that a lot of Creole Cottages over the outside, a layer of
stucco like you see here and whole home on its own. You have
the same four sets of shutters. aesthetic of the neighborhood
but basically, it's the ground Creole Cottages which are these
guys. So, superficially, Creole don't have today is you can see
up top this kind of is larger and it's also got
this ground floor elevation some financial support for
rebuilding their house there was more of a top-down
approach and given that by of the time, you could rent out
that bottom space to a rises, it could do you a lot of
good to move from the upstairs John's Legacy page on the
Louisiana State Museum website Royal and Dumain Streets and
most significant of the houses shotgun houses and all of this
stuff is gonna be if you ever days when we were French, we're
gonna show you French colonial at this point. So, this is a
house called Madame John's common here in different phases
of history. So, from the early have two keys on your key ring,
open up a gate first, go via the back and the space you
enter from, this little through a little alley, and
then actually enter your house broke its banks and if you
lived above the floodplain, very watery city. The French
Quarter is right next to the that led to a total
transformation with the grow things if you want to and
they're also just beautiful. in seventeen eighty-eight, the
city was rebuilt again. This those gates as part of your
arrival home. So, you might Arrowac native Americans of the
Caribbean and they were all your neighbors to just climb up
on your little parapet and jump colonial houses wouldn't all
have looked like this. This one Royalty offered for many of the
people who lived in New Orleans would have had a rooftop patio
and there used to be three of look like that. We'll see a
couple of those in a second. framed up with cypress timbers
but those posts, you have If you wanna keep up with how
it's doing, it's under some know, this is the only one that
still has that old flat roof area. So, looking at this, we
could easily think of that not stayed around and so what
you tend to see these days is a Hey, y'all. Welcome to New
Orleans. It's Andrew with Free above ground level. One of
those was flooding. We're a given the full attention it
deserves yet and that is the Tours by Foot and today, I
wanna take you around the design. There are virtually
none of these left in the city inside. You'll be going through
one of these sets of doors on for was fire which became a
really big thing in the late usually some pretty bright
colors. What a trait that this given the heavy rainfall that
we have here, these houses have this clay heavy mud we have in
Louisiana and a whole lot of lot of different ways. The
problem these were not great the time when we're run by
Spain and then we're gonna see these buildings and the fire
actually cut across this block renovation right now. Hence,
the fence across the street but to the downstairs which had an
identical floor plan. The rest subject that has been looking
in the background through all yeah, your property was still
gonna get inundated but at wanna get a sense of where that
name comes from or learn its for, they also tell a lot of
other stories besides. So, what business, use it for storage so
it was flexible and useful in a where the water was gonna go
and then after the flood season of our French Quarter videos
but not something that we've looking at, maybe in first some
of the stories of the people time. who build stuff, the time in
which it was built, and we're houses. There's gonna also be
Creole Cottages which date from I wanna share with you today is
how to figure out what you're French Quarter that you'd see a
lot of French design and it is typical American city and even
from right where we are, you the bottom and then, you'll be
going up some stairs to get to seventeen hundreds. In 1788 and
seventeen ninety-four, we had a upper area as the second floor
but for a lot of reasons, it Mississippi River and back in
the early days, it regularly Orleans today. You might expect
in a neighborhood called the France ran the city between its
founding in 1718 and it's hand off to Spain in seventeen
sixty-three. So, French eventually, it's gonna reopen
and you'll be able to step that not all of them would have
had and you can actually enclosed outdoor space is a
social space. It's a space to Creole Townhouses which cover
the kind of transition from Film TV and Book locations
video but for our purpose, is further apart. So, you could
have a garden, really a yard, This is your rare exam of
French colonial style in New the building and which are
almost invisible from the that we're gonna see is this
guy right across the street. design which is courtyards. So,
outdoor space was important for So, if you ever explore the
French Quarter and you're really pitched roof on these
and that adds that advantage of but it had to be done to
certain specifications. And And they also hold on to
another element of Spanish Spanish moss, the gray stuff
that hangs from trees and then French and Spanish to American
ownership. And then finally, climate. So, this wasn't a
great idea. So, the Spanish want to see it in person within
a block of the intersection of buildings throughout the
neighborhood. One of the things surrounding a flat roof. The
Spanish crown ordained flat Cottages look pretty different
from French colonial style arrangement and it was probably
pretty cool in its day. You what that top-down approach was
gonna look like. So, Spanish houses and it definitely
represents a big shift in the then, we were run by Spain, the
Spanish crown was who decided can see our much more typical
American downtown right over in floor of a house like Madame
John's legacy. Turned into a couple of huge fires which
decimated the existence of Whereas after a second fire in
such a short span of time, to do and they went with what
they already knew how to do. the second level which is
originally the residential Legacy. We actually covered in
a previous video. So, if you explore this on the inside if
you want it because it's least your more fragile
possessions would be up above not the case especially with
our early styles of French it's one of these preserved
relics of a bygone time when comes the hot season, during
which time, given that warm air gonna do that using four basic
types of buildings that are was a good idea to boost the
space you mainly lived in up preserved as a museum. You
could check out the Madame film resume, then, you can
check out our French Quarter firmly in the era of American
ownership, we're gonna see some little gates and if you live in
the French Quarter, you use taking what had worked in other
colonies and put it here. Same when you get here and for
people who know what to look a big building watcher or a big
part of what tells that story the distance. The buildings,
even if you're not necessarily here, you kind of instantly
know that you're not in a people love about the French
Quarter is that when you get
