Dogtrot house

The main style point was a large breezeway (instead of a hallway) through the center of the house to cool occupants in the hot southern climate.

Additional rooms usually take the form of a semidetached ell or shed flanking the hall, most commonly at the rear.

The combination of the breezeway and open windows in the rooms of the house allowed outside air to enter the living quarters in the pre–air-conditioning era.

Although some houses had only the open central hall and flanking rooms, most dogtrots had full-width porches to the front and/or rear.

[7] The Arkansas Post Museum includes the Refeld-Hinman home, a log-cabin dogtrot house built in 1877.

[11] In 1800, Jacob Eversole, of what is now Perry County, Kentucky, constructed an addition to the one-room cabin he had erected in 1789, creating a two-story dogtrot home.

The Museum of West Louisiana in Leesville includes the Alexander Airhart Home, a dogtrot house.

[18] The LSU Rural Life Museum in Baton Rouge includes a restored dogtrot house built by Thomas Neal Sr. from the 1860s to the early 1870s in Rapides Parish.

This home, built in 1880 by Nehemiah Sylvest, was originally located in Fisher, Louisiana, but has since been moved to the fairgrounds in Franklinton.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department acquired the 6-acre (2.4 ha) site by purchase in 1977 from a Fanthorp descendant.

On July 3, 1845, Kenneth Lewis Anderson, vice-president of the Republic of Texas died from illness at the Inn while en route home from Washington-on-the-Brazos.

[27] The Sterne-Hoya House was built in Nacogdoches, in 1830 by Texas Revolution leader Adolphus Sterne as a dogtrot, although the open breezeway was later enclosed.

[30][31] The Woodland House, the most important structure at the museum, was constructed in 1847 by Sam Houston when he was serving as one of Texas's first United States Senators.

[33] The Gaines-Oliphint House, located in Hemphill, is a story-and-a-half dogtrot built by James Gaines, one of the earliest Anglo settlers in Texas.