I live in an old shotgun double in New Orleans. A lot of the features designed for airflow have been fucked up by “modernization” - most of the windows are perm

I live in an old shotgun double in New Orleans. A lot of the features designed for airflow have been fucked up by “modernization” - most of the windows are permanantly closed due to window AC units, transom windows above the doors between rooms are painted shut with the hinge support stuff gone, etc - but it’s still really amazing how much colder it is than the outside. It is designed to shed heat in a ton of ways and it’s so much better at it than the newer house in the same city I grew up in.