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The Shotgun
The Shotgun house was so named because with all of its doors opened one could fire a shotgun from front to rear without hitting any part of the home.

To the author’s knowledge this has not been tested in recent years, but perhaps this was a common occurrence in the colorful past of Key West. The design came to be popularized here in the mid-1800s, when the cigar industry was moved from Cuba. Stogies were rolled, packaged, and distributed around the world from Key West factories. At its peak, the industry employed as many as 20,000 Cuban emigrants, and to house this workforce the hundreds of shotgun style houses now located around the city were constructed. Originally, simple, economic designs they have been embellished over the years with fanciful facade elements and attached structures.

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