The Big House
Appearance
(Redirected from Big house)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/99/Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg/40px-Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg.png)
Look up big house in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
The Big House may refer to:
Buildings
[edit]Types of building
[edit]- Anglo-Irish big house
- Great house, in Ireland, specifically houses of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy
- a type of longhouse among the cultures of the Pacific Northwest Coast
- Wharenui, a communal house of the Māori people of New Zealand
- a slang term for prison
- An African-American Vernacular English term referring to a plantation house on an American slave compound.
Individual buildings
[edit]- 8 House or Big House, a mixed use development in Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Bolshoy Dom (Russian for 'Big House'), Saint Petersburg, Russia, headquarters of the Federal Security Service
- Big House, Landshipping, Pembrokeshire, Wales
- Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow, Scotland, nicknamed 'The Big Hoose'
- Big House, Irene, Gauteng, South Africa, the residence of South African statesman Jan Smuts
United States
[edit]- The Allman Brothers Band Museum, Macon, Georgia, also known as "The Big House"
- Big House (Moccasin, Arizona)
- Oklahoma State Fair Arena, Oklahoma City
- Big House (Palisades, New York)
- Michigan Stadium, Ann Arbor, Michigan, nicknamed The Big House
Entertainment
[edit]- The Big House (1930 film), starring Chester Morris, Wallace Beery and Robert Montgomery
- The Big House (2000 film), short film directed by Rachel Ward
- The Big House (TV series), a 2004 American television sitcom
- "The Big House" (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), a 2017 television episode
- "The Big House" (Orange Is the New Black), a 2019 television episode
- Big House (American band), a country music band from the late 1990s
- Big House (album), their self-titled debut album
- Big House (Canadian band), a Canadian rock music band active in the early 1990s
- "Big House" (song), a 1993 song by Christian rock band Audio Adrenaline
Other uses
[edit]- The Big House (tournament), an annual Super Smash Bros. tournament in Michigan
- Clarence "Big House" Gaines, American basketball coach
See also
[edit]- The Big Hoose, Scottish prison Barlinnie in Glasgow
- House (disambiguation)
- Big (disambiguation)