Roundhouse (disambiguation)
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A roundhouse is a building used by railroads for servicing locomotives.
Roundhouse may also refer to:
Buildings
Types
- Roundhouse, a common description for the round buildings using the Panopticon cell layout for a prison or other type of confining institution
- Round-house (lock-up), a small prison
- Roundhouse (dwelling), a kind of house with circular walls, prehistoric and modern, all over the world
- Atlantic roundhouse, an Iron Age stone building found in the northern and western parts of mainland Scotland, the Northern Isles and the Hebrides
- Another name for a gin gang, an extension to a threshing barn
- Roundhouse, the substructure of a post mill which encloses the trestle and forms a storage facility
Australia
- Round House, an historic structure in Fremantle, Western Australia, originally use as a jail
- The Roundhouse, an entertainment venue at the University of New South Wales; See UNSW Venues
- The Broadmeadow roundhouse, at the Broadmeadow Locomotive Depot
- The Goulburn roundhouse, at the Goulburn Rail Heritage Centre
- The Valley Heights roundhouse, at the Valley Heights Locomotive Depot Heritage Museum
United Kingdom
- Dagenham Roundhouse, a pub and venue in East London
- Horton Rounds, a Grade II listed house in Northamptonshire, England, sometimes referred to as the Round House
- Roundhouse (venue), an entertainment venue in Chalk Farm, London, England
- St Giles's Roundhouse, a prison in London, England
- That Roundhouse, a private dwelling within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in Wales
- The Round House, a Georgian villa in outer London
- The Round House, Stanton Drew, an old toll house in Somerset
United States
Nickname
- Charles Koch Arena, Wichita, Kansas
- McKenzie Arena, Chattanooga, Tennessee
- New Mexico State Capitol, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Philadelphia Police Department's headquarters in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Elsewhere
Other uses
- Roundhouse kick, a martial arts technique
- Roundhouse (periodical), a magazine publication by the New South Wales Rail Transport Museum
- Roundhouse Railroad Museum, in Savannah, Georgia, United States
- Roundhouse (TV series), a Nickelodeon television show
- The Round House (novel), a 2011 prize-winning novel by Louise Erdrich
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