Fig. 21. Detail of Whitehall gallery window, pilaster (Bldg. 127).
“TURN OF THE CENTURY” ONE ROOM, TWO ROOMS AND SHOTGUN HOUSES
Fig. 22. Circa 1910 two room house with integral gallery (Bldg. 120).
Fig. 23. Front view of a circa 1920 one room house (Bldg. 115).
Fig. 24. Side view of 1920 one room house (Bldg. 115).
The alluvial lands east of the Ouachita contained two categories of dwellings, those of the plantation owner as previously described and the houses of the tenants and small land owners. The dwellings depicted on these and subsequent pages are typical of the latter category. The basic folk house plan types used were the one room, two room, shotgun and later the bungalow. Houses were usually constructed of wood frame with vertical board and batten siding or horizontal milled siding.
A feature which the basic one room and two room plan dwellings had in common was the integral front gallery. The gallery roof framing was part of the roof structure of the core of the dwelling. One might notice in [figure 22] that although two gallery columns are absent, the roof is still standing.