yep. houses with attic fans and flow-through layouts were hella popular in the early 1900s-1940s. you could open some windows and doors front and back and let air move, and an attic fan would keep it from getting too hot and aid airflow at night.

same thing with covered patios (my grandfather grew up in places like singapore, the philippines and oklahoma where you’d sleep on the patios under large ceiling fans) - we sealed everything up when AC came along and forgot how to do shit.