The Big House

The Big House may refer to:

Buildings

Types of building

• Great house
• Anglo-Irish big house, specifically houses of the Protestant 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 (documentary film), 1997 documentary film directed by David Goldie
• 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 (comics), a fictional prison in the Marvel Comics universe
• 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

• The Big House (tournament), an annual Super Smash Bros. tournament in Michigan
• Clarence "Big House" Gaines, American basketball coach

See also

• The Big Hoose, Scottish prison Barlinnie in Glasgow
• House (disambiguation)
• Big (disambiguation)