Billy Tarbuck lives in the Victorian shotgun cottage. The style of the house is long and narrow. It is one story high, one room wide and several rooms long, with the gable end of the roof facing the road. Architectural historians have traced the origin of the Shotgun house back to the early-nineteenth-century New Orleans, where it developed from African, French and American Indian traditions. These houses proliferated in industrial mill towns and Black neighborhoods from 1880's through the 1910's.