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Creole cottage
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Creole architecture in the United States.
Creole cottages
In the U.S. south, a creole cottage is a type of vernacular architecture indigenous to the Gulf Coast of the United States. The style was a dominant house type along the central Gulf Coast from about 1790 to 1840 in the former settlements of French Louisiana in Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The style is popularly thought to have evolved from French and Spanish colonial house forms, although historians are uncertain about its origins.