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Hall and parlor house

Floor plan of a basic Virginia-style hall-and-parlor house.
An example from the colonial period of the United States, Resurrection Manor, near Hollywood, Maryland, was built c. 1660 and demolished 2002.

A hall-and-parlor house is a type of vernacular house found in early-modern to 19th century England, as well as in colonial North America.[1] It is presumed to have been the model on which other North American house types have been developed, such as the Cape Cod house, saltbox, and central-passage house, and in turn influenced the somewhat-later I-house. In England it had been a more modest development from the medieval hall house.

  1. ^ The Hall-and-Parlor or Hall-and-Chamber House in American houses: a field guide to the architecture of the home by Gerald L. Foster

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