@natleedesigns: Before air-conditioning, Southern homes had to work with the climate. The dogtrot house was one answer. Common across the Deep South, this traditional house plan placed two enclosed sections beneath one roof, separated by an open, covered passage. That breezeway offered shade and helped air circulate through the home. But this architecture is personal to me, too. My great-grandmother Mama Chris had a Dogtrot home in Kemper Springs, near Meridian, Mississippi. Exploring the history of Southern homes helps me connect the buildings we admire today with the people who lived in them. These houses remind us that good design isn't only about appearance. It's about how people lived, what the climate demanded, and how a home served its family. Would you bring the dogtrot back into modern home design? Follow for more stories about the history of American homes. #SouthernHomes #DogtrotHouse #HistoricHomes #creatorsearchinsights #restoringoldhomes
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Saturday 17 October 2026 01:27:13 GMT
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Emily 💙 :
My great great grandparents had a dogtrot house my grandmother said. They had a sleeping porch as well. Oh I wish I could have seen it.
2026-10-17 04:04:08
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🦝⃢🔥 𝔹𝕚𝕘 𝕄𝕒𝕞𝕒 ☕ :
It was also to separate the kitchen from sleeping areas during the summer. Many of these breezeways were eventually closed in to make a large farmhouse and some are still standing today and you'd never even know it.
2026-10-17 10:09:30
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Mason Sp Workman :
Seems like it could get really annoying lol
2026-10-17 09:44:40
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liz :
I walked through a house that had a breeze in the middle of summer in Texas and it felt so cool and refreshing I would love one
2026-10-17 04:33:10
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Steve Johnsonrod :
Fart-gas.
2026-10-17 09:28:48
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Karen Thompson :
maybe not but I want the A frame house back.
2026-10-17 04:05:19
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Notforyoutoknow698 :
No I’d get an AC unit 🙄
2026-10-17 04:58:31
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I R Foof :
I would, but with doors and screen doors to keep bugs and critters out the passage
2026-10-17 05:53:42
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mac_ultra :
I saw a house designed like this years ago made of shipping containers on each side and have wanted it since
2026-10-17 03:47:41
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kendall.moss417 :
I would absolutely love a house like this. It’d be great for separated/divorced parents who nicely coparent.
2026-10-17 07:57:52
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April Justine🤎🪞 :
So when I was little, I'll say about 7 yrs old, my great grandma had a house like this across the street from her old house. It was still well put together but empty. Im pretty sure abandoned cuz their was leaves and sticks in both sides of the house. My cousin n I would go play in it and hang out on the porch. I felt safe there. Now I'm 32 and still think about this house from time to time. I even dreamt about going back to it and when I got there I opened one door that just led me to another door. I asked my grandmother about the house and she said that it was tore down because it was so old. I never knew who lived there once before but the feeling that house gave me was comforting 💕
2026-10-17 07:20:25
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scottbenoit221 :
one million degrees no ac
2026-10-17 03:28:26
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confinedsword :
Yes! I would love a house like that
2026-10-17 02:41:52
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Jes :
I had an extremely vivid dream about a home like this for weeks when I was a teen. Like it wouldn’t let up, I ended up drawing it out to get it out of my head. Now I know what it was called, cool lol
2026-10-17 05:16:10
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Boymom :
Definitely
2026-10-17 05:51:20
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💙Smokey💙 :
Cool air
2026-10-17 04:10:49
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Shane Lee Cobb 698 :
in the process as we speak
2026-10-17 04:33:48
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only bama fan :
Can remember when houses had windows on all sides
2026-10-17 04:29:43
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Toothless Bearded Hag🍉 :
My great grandparents’ house was like that (he cleared the land and built it 1915), but they quickly enclosed the middle part for more living space. Grandpa installed an indoor bathroom in the 1950s. Some cousin lives there today
2026-10-17 05:03:52
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Benny&theJets :
skirting the tax man, less sq footage. any more brain busters?
2026-10-17 04:43:32
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Cindy :
💯💯💯
2026-10-17 08:24:40
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Karen Powell :
❤️❤️❤️
2026-10-17 09:29:37
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