1200, 1208, 1210, 1212, 1214, 1216, 1218 Dolores Street, Seven Houses, c. 1905. The shotgun house, a house one room wide and one or more rooms deep, is a distinctive folk house type that appears throughout Texas. It traditionally served as working class housing and was sometimes, as in this case, built in multiple units. This row of seven shotgun houses, erected just east of the Santa Fe railroad tracks, was an unusually large concentration. The houses were probably built about 1905, and the first tenants were railroad workers, laborers, and clerks. The houses have been demolished, but had they remained, the grouping might have been eligible for the National Register as an historic district. This listing is retained in the survey for documentary purposes.
