Hall

In architecture, a hall is a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age, a mead hall was such a simple building and was the residence of a lord and his retainers. Later, rooms were partitioned from it, and the space next to the front door became the entrance hall. Today, the (entrance) hall of a house is the space next to the front door or vestibule leading to the rooms directly and/or indirectly. Where the hall inside the front door of a house is elongated, it may be called a passage, corridor (from Spanish corredor used in El Escorial and 100 years later in Castle Howard) or hallway.

Other meanings

The term hall is often used to designate a British or Irish country house such as a hall house, or specifically a Wealden hall house, and manor houses.

In later medieval Europe, the main room of a castle or manor house was the great hall. In a medieval building, the hall was where the fire was kept. With time, its functions as dormitory, kitchen, parlour and so on were divided off to separate rooms or, in the case of the kitchen, a separate building.

Hall (disambiguation)

Hall can mean:

  • Hall, architectural term
  • Hall (concept), for the development of the meaning of the word
  • Hall (surname)
  • Places

    Arctic

  • Hall Island (Arctic), also known as Gallya, an island in the Franz Josef Land archipelago
  • Austria

  • Bad Hall, a marketplace and spa of Austria, in Upper Austria
  • Hall in Tirol, a city in the state of Tyrol, Austria
  • Hall bei Admont, a municipality in Styria
  • Australia

  • Hall, Australian Capital Territory
  • Germany

  • Schwäbisch Hall, formerly known as Hall, a town in Baden-Württemberg
  • Ireland

  • Hall, County Westmeath, a townland in Kilcleagh civil parish, barony of Clonlonan, County Westmeath
  • Sweden

  • Anstalten Hall, a high-security prison near Södertälje, Sweden
  • United States

  • Hall, California (disambiguation)
  • Hall Station, California, formerly Hall
  • Las Lomas, California, formerly Hall
  • Hall, Indiana, an unincorporated place
  • Hall, New York
  • Hall, West Virginia
  • Hall County (disambiguation), several different counties
  • Hall (cyclecar)

    The Hall Cycle and Plating company was a maker of Cycle cars in Waco, Texas from 1914-1915.

    History

    In 1914, a man named John B. Fisher designed a cyclecar for the Hall Cycle and Plating Company. It had an underslung frame.Lawrence Hall, president of the company, did a test run from Waco to Dallas, covering 104 miles while consuming only 2.5 gallons of gasoline. The cyclecar had a 4-cylinder, 18 hp engine(the prototype only had a two-cylinder engine) with a 100" wheelbase. The company reorganized in 1915 as the Hall Motor car Company. Production ended in 1915, and Lawrence Hall moved to Los Angeles.

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