great house
Stately noble residence
A great house is a large, imposing residence, typically the main dwelling on a plantation or estate.
In the Caribbean and American South, the term specifically denotes the master's mansion on a slave plantation, distinguished from the quarters where enslaved people lived: The great house sat on a hill overlooking the fields.
In the American Southwest, great house refers to the monumental multistory structures built by ancestral Puebloans at sites like Chaco Canyon.
- hallInterior connecting pathway
- stately homeLarge historic aristocratic residence
- mansionLarge, stately home
- chateauFrench country mansion
- estateProperty and grounds
grand estate · demesne · aristocracy · National Trust · period drama · fortress · palace · ancestral home · feudalism · landed gentry · old money · feudal estate · home · Gilded Age · family legacy · family seat · lord · grounds
- historic dwellingslonghouse, log cabin, farmhouse, cottage, mud hut
- slaverychattel slavery, enslaved, slave, enslavement, slave traders
- English estatesmanor, English manor, hall, mansion, grange
- plantationsplantation, Melrose, Monmouth, Longwood, plantation owner
- tropical architecturebreezeway, cross ventilation, hurricane shutters, lanai, louvers
- Caribbean homesthatched hut, colonial mansion
great houseservant's quarters
poor house · slum dwelling · tenement · workers' housing · poorhouse
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