The Big House Explained

Big House may refer to:

• Prison, in American slang
• Big House (band), a country music band from the late 1990s
  • Big House (album), the band's self-titled debut album

Places

in Ireland

• Bighouse, County Antrim, a townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland

in Russia

• Bolshoy Dom (lit. Big House), notorious headquarters of state security services in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

in United States

• Big House (Moccasin, Arizona), on the list of Registered Historic Places in Arizona
• "The Big House", nickname of Michigan Stadium, home of the University of Michigan's football team
• Oklahoma state fair arena
• Big House (Palisades, New York), on the list of Registered Historic Places in New York
• The "Big House" was a term often used by slaves on plantations to refer to the plantation-house, in contrast with the squalid shacks they were often forced to live in. Privileged and trusted slaves sometimes got to "stay in the big house."

Other

• Great house in Ireland
• The Big House (film), 1930 film with Chester Morris
• The Big House (2004 TV series), which aired on the ABC network and starred Kevin Hart
• a certain type of longhouse among the cultures of the Pacific Northwest Coast
• The nickname of B&B Industries production facility in Elkhart, Indiana where rotator tow trucks are manufactured