Smoky Hollow Historic District, Historic district in Tallahassee, United States.

Smoky Hollow Historic District is a historic district in Tallahassee, Florida, bounded by East Lafayette Street, the CSX railroad tracks, Myers Park and Myers Park Lane. It covers 85 acres and holds 14 historic buildings and 3 structures, among them shotgun houses: narrow, open-plan wooden homes that let a shot travel from one side clear through to the other.

Smokey Hollow was one of Tallahassee's first Black neighborhoods, an African-American community formed under Jim Crow segregation and active from the post-Civil War era until the 1960s. Construction of the Apalachee Parkway and the Florida Department of Transportation building displaced its residents, a clearance promoted by Taylor Albert Davis as "urban renewal." The district was listed on the National Register on October 27, 2000, and its boundary was reduced on January 14, 2009.

The buildings show wooden frame construction and shotgun houses that reflect how African American families lived in early 20th century Tallahassee. These simple house designs were common because they were affordable and fit the way working people needed to organize their homes.

You can walk through the area easily since the houses are close together and accessible from the main streets. It helps to start with a local guide or information materials to understand the different building styles and their stories.

The neighborhood's name came from its notably hazy atmosphere. Its shotgun houses, a form common in New Orleans, were named for their narrow open plan, through which a gun could be fired from one side clear to the other. Three metal-beam "spirit houses" in Cascades Park now mark the site.