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The Houses of Erza Gerry: Architecture and Neighborhoods.

There were three houses that Erza Gerry and his family were known to have lived in the Pensacola area. Gerry was a renter at two properties one located on West Zaragossa Street, and another on West Wright Street, and lived in a house and property owned by his grandmother, Georgiana, on North A Street. All the information that can be gathered indicates these houses were in the shotgun style. The North A Street properties would stay in the family until at least into the 1940s.

This exhibit will show what types of Architecture and what the living situations of the people living in the Pensacola area at the turn of the twentieth century as well as the idea that the gerrys houses are good examples of the type of home that the working class would have been living in at the beginning of the 1900s

The first section explores Folk Architures which is what Gerry and other working class households would have used. The second section looks at the Architure of the wealthy. The last section is a study of the ethnic make-up of the neighborhood.