Roundhouse
Roundhouse may refer to:
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Architecture and buildings
Types
- 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
- Roundhouse (lock-up), a small jail
- Roundhouse (windmill), the substructure of a post mill which encloses the trestle and forms a storage facility
- Railway roundhouse, a building used by railroads for servicing locomotives
- Roundhouse, or gin gang, an extension to a threshing barn
Australia
- Round House (Western Australia), an historic structure in Fremantle, originally used as a jail
- Broadmeadow roundhouse, a former railway roundhouse at the Broadmeadow Locomotive Depot
- Goulburn roundhouse, a former railway roundhouse at the Goulburn Rail Heritage Centre
- Valley Heights roundhouse, a former railway roundhouse at the Valley Heights Locomotive Depot Heritage Museum
- The Roundhouse, an entertainment venue at the University of New South Wales
United Kingdom
- Roundhouse (venue), an entertainment venue and former railway roundhouse in Chalk Farm, London, England
- 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
- St Giles's Roundhouse, a prison in London, England
- That Roundhouse, a private eco-dwelling within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park in Wales
- The Round House (Havering), a Georgian villa in outer London
- The Round House, Stanton Drew, a former toll house in Somerset
- Round House (London Zoo), a 1933 gorilla house in the Modernist style
United States
- Round House (Barnstable, Massachusetts), 1930, a three-story wood frame round house
- Round House (Connecticut), a rotating residence designed by Richard Foster
- Round House (Somerville, Massachusetts)
- Roundhouse Railroad Museum, now the Georgia State Railroad Museum, in Savannah, Georgia, United States
- Round House (Los Angeles) or Garden of Paradise, an 1847 adobe landmark
- Round House, the exercise term for a DEFCON 3 alert
Russia
Nicknames
- Charles Koch Arena, Wichita, Kansas
- McKenzie Arena, Chattanooga, Tennessee
- New Mexico State Capitol, Santa Fe, New Mexico
- Philadelphia Police Department headquarters, Pennsylvania
Elsewhere
- Round House (Nunspeet, Netherlands)
- Round House (Odesa), a historic building in Odesa, Ukraine
Arts and entertainment
- Roundhouse (album), a 1990 album by Tar
- Roundhouse (periodical), a magazine publication by the New South Wales Rail Transport Museum
- Roundhouse (TV series), a Nickelodeon television show
- Round House Theatre, a non-profit theater production company in Maryland
- The Round House (novel), a 2011 novel by Louise Erdrich
- Roundhouse Recording Studios, a London recording studio founded by Gerry Bron in 1975
Other uses
- Roundhouse punch in boxing, delivered in a circular direction, instead of a straight line
- Roundhouse kick, a martial arts technique
- Roundhouse clinic, addiction services in Boston, MA
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