The Big House may refer to:

Buildings

Types of building

The Big House in Ireland The term big house () refers to the country houses, mansions, or estate houses of the historical landed class in Ireland. The houses formed the symbolic focal point of the landed Anglo-Irish political dominance of Ireland from the late 16th cent ...

Great house A great house is a large house or mansion with luxurious appointments and great retinues of indoor and outdoor staff. The term is used mainly historically, especially of properties at the turn of the 20th century, i.e., the late Victorian or ...

, in Ireland, specifically houses of the Anglo-Irish ascendancy * a type of

longhouse A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single-room building for communal dwelling. It has been built in various parts of the world including Asia, Europe, and North America. Many were built from lumber, timber and ...

among the cultures of the Pacific Northwest Coast *

Wharenui A wharenui (; literally "large house") is a communal house of the Māori people of New Zealand, generally situated as the focal point of a ''marae''. Wharenui are usually called meeting houses in New Zealand English, or simply called ''wikt:wh ...

, a communal house of the Māori people of New Zealand * a slang term for

prison A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, or remand center, is a facility where Prisoner, people are Imprisonment, imprisoned under the authority of the State (polity), state ...

*An

African-American Vernacular English African-American Vernacular English (AAVE) is the variety of English natively spoken, particularly in urban communities, by most working- and middle-class African Americans and some Black Canadians. Having its own unique grammatical, voc ...

term referring to a

plantation house A plantation house is the main house of a plantation, often a substantial farmhouse, which often serves as a symbol for the plantation as a whole. Plantation houses in the Southern United States and in other areas are known as quite grand and ...

on an American slave compound.

Individual buildings

* 8 House or Big House, a mixed use development in Ørestad, Copenhagen, Denmark * , Saint Petersburg, Russia, headquarters of the Federal Security Service * Big House, Landshipping, Pembrokeshire, Wales *

Ibrox Stadium Ibrox Stadium is a football stadium on the south side of the River Clyde in the Ibrox area of Glasgow, Scotland. The home of Scottish Premiership team Rangers, Ibrox is the third-largest football stadium in Scotland, with an all-seated ca ...

, 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 The Allman Brothers Band Museum, also known as The Big House, is a museum in Macon, Georgia, United States. It was the home to The Allman Brothers Band's original members, their families, and various friends from 1970 to 1973. The Big House was r ...

, 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 Michigan Stadium, nicknamed "the Big House," is the American football stadium for the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It is the largest stadium in the United States and the Western Hemisphere, the third-largest stadium in the wo ...

, 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 (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) The Big House was an annual '' Super Smash Bros.'' tournament series held in Michigan, with the first event taking place in 2011. It is considered one of the largest and most prestigious ''Smash Bros.'' tournament series alongside GENESIS, Evoluti ...