Shotgun House, Cardinal Road,

Irwin County, Georgia, 2004.

c. Brian Brown

Shotgun House, Irwinville Highway,

Irwin County, Georgia, 2006.

c. Brian Brown

Shotgun houses earned their name from their unique architectural style. It is said that one could fire a shotgun through the front door and its pellets would cleanly exit the back. They generally consist of three to five consecutively joined rooms, with no hallways, and, while there are a number of different styles of these dwellings, the most common in South Georgia are very crude.