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Hall-and-Parlor
The folk hall-and-parlor
house, like the double-pen house, is composed of two rooms arranged side by
side, though with only one exterior door. Historically, the hall-and-parlor
house is related to the Medieval English house type of the same name. In
this case, the hall is not a passageway but a large, multi-purpose room. The
parlor is the more private of the two rooms and often smaller. Door
placement is usually off-center.
In early examples,
chimneys were located at one or both gable ends; later examples have
interior chimneys. Like the double-pen houses and other linear-plan house
types, the hall-and-parlor usually had a rear extension forming an L or T.
In many cases, these extensions were built at the same time as the front
portion of the house.
Hall-and-parlor: House
(c.1870), 489 East Pike Street
This brick house has a
Stick/Eastlake style front porch.
Hall-and-parlor: House (c.1860), 90 South Marion Street
Hall-and-parlor:
House (c.1830), 1360 South Harriet Street
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