page_title: Creole architecture in the United States
hierarchical_section_title: Creole architecture in the United States
caption_attribution_description: Williamsburg, 821 Main Street, Natchez, Adams County, MS. Built 1830-40.
context_page_description: 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, Louisiana, and Mississippi. The style is popularly thought to have evolved from French and Spanish colonial house-forms, although the true origins are unclear.
  Creole architecture in Louisiana is documented by numerous listings in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
  The "Creole cottage" type of house was common along the Gulf Coast and associated rivers in the 19th century with a few scattered examples found as far west as Houston, Texas, and as far east as northern Florida, although the majority of structures are found in southern Louisiana eastward to Mobile, Alabama. In Kentucky, a few scattered cottages still stand in the state's far western Jackson Purchase region, where they continued to be built into the early twentieth century.
context_section_description: 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, Louisiana, and Mississippi.  The style is popularly thought to have evolved from French and Spanish colonial house-forms, although the true origins are unclear.
  Creole architecture in Louisiana is documented by numerous listings in the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
  The "Creole cottage" type of house was common along the Gulf Coast and associated rivers in the 19th century with a few scattered examples found as far west as Houston, Texas, and as far east as northern Florida, although the majority of structures are found in southern Louisiana eastward to Mobile, Alabama.  In Kentucky, a few scattered cottages still stand in the state's far western Jackson Purchase region, where they continued to be built into the early twentieth century.
caption: Williamsburg, a late 1830s example of a Creole cottage with neoclassical detailing in Natchez, Mississippi.  It features the common features of most Creole cottages: separate entrance doors to each interior room, central chimney, raised basement, and is situated on the front property line.
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