A hallway at the Royal York Hotel

Hallway during and after construction in an apartment building in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada.

Several things are commonly known as Halls or halls. For the development of meaning of the word 'hall', see Hall (concept). Hall can mean: Hall, an architectural term Halls of residence Hall of fame List of Halls and Walks of Fame Hall (surname) Hall effect, named after Edwin Hall Hall County, one of several such counties in the United States Hall, Australian Capital Territory Hall (lunar crater), on the Moon Hall... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (741x765, 96 KB) Summary A hallway at the Royal York Hotel. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (741x765, 96 KB) Summary A hallway at the Royal York Hotel. ... The Royal York surrounded by Toronto’s modern towers. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 583 pixelsFull resolution (4718 × 3440 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 583 pixelsFull resolution (4718 × 3440 pixel, file size: 1. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Old Executive Office Building, Washington D.C. Bank of China Tower, Hong Kong, China In architecture, construction, engineering and real estate development the word building may refer to one of the following: Any man-made structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or continuous occupancy, or An... Motto: Pride in our past, Faith in our future Area: 288. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Official languages English (de facto) Government - Lieutenant-Governor David C. Onley - Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 106 - Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... Look up Hall, hall in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

A hall is fundamentally, a relatively large space enclosed by a roof and walls. In the Iron Age, a mead hall was such a simple building and was the residence of a lord and his retainers. Later, rooms were partitioned from it so that today, the hall of a house is the space inside the front door from which the rooms are reached. Iron Age Axe found on Gotland This article is about the archaeological period known as the Iron Age, for the mythological Iron Age see Iron Age (mythology). ... A reconstructed Viking Age longhouse (28,5 metres long). ...

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A hallway in a New Jersey Catholic High School

• Deriving from the above, a hall is often the term used to designate a British or Irish country house.
• In later medieval Europe, the main room of a castle or manor house was the great hall.
• Where the hall inside the front door of a house is elongated, it may be called a passage, or hallway. The corresponding space upstairs is a landing.
• In a medieval building, the hall was where the fire was kept. With time, its functions as dormitory, kitchen, parlour and so on were divided off to separate rooms or, in the case of the kitchen, a separate building.

On the same principle: Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1200 × 900 pixels, file size: 119 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A photo of a hallway at Mater Dei High School, taken by a student, during the school day. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1200 × 900 pixels, file size: 119 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) A photo of a hallway at Mater Dei High School, taken by a student, during the school day. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... A country house is a large dwelling, such as a mansion, located on a country estate. ... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times. ... For other uses, see Castle (disambiguation). ... Ightham Mote For the London district, see Manor House, London. ... A great hall was the main room of a royal palace, a noblemans castle or a large manor house in the Middle Ages, and in the country houses of the 16th and early 17th centuries. ... Look up Passage in Wiktionary, the free dictionary This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... A typical American college dorm room Another typical not-so-clean college dorm room Watterson Towers, Illinois State University Potomac Hall, second-largest dormitory at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia. ... A kitchen is a room used for food preparation and sometimes entertainment. ... Parlour (or parlor), from the Fr. ...

• Many buildings at colleges and universities are formally titled "_______ Hall", typically being named after the person who endowed it, for example, King's Hall, Cambridge. Others, such as Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, commemorate respected people. Between these in age, Nassau Hall at Princeton University began as the single building of the then college. In medieval origin, these were the halls in which the members of the university lived together during term time. In many cases, some aspect of this community remains.
• At colleges in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Hall is the dining hall for students, with High Table at one end for fellows. Typically, at "Formal Hall", gowns are worn for dinner during the evening, whereas for "informal Hall" they are not.
• Many Livery Companies (e.g., in the City of London) have a Hall that is their headquarters and meeting place.

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• A hall is also a building consisting largely of a principal room, that is rented out for meetings and social affairs. It may be privately or government-owned, such as a function hall owned by one company used for weddings and cotillions (organized and run by the same company on a contractual basis) or a community hall available for rent to anyone.

Firehall (London Ontario) 1923

Following a line of similar development: Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x578, 103 KB) Summary Western Fair, London Ontario. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x578, 103 KB) Summary Western Fair, London Ontario. ...

• In office buildings and larger buildings (theatres, cinemas etc), the entrance hall is generally known as the foyer (the French for fire-place). The atrium, a name sometimes used in public buildings for the entrance hall, was the central courtyard of a Roman house.

Derived from the residential meanings of the word: This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... Serge Sudeikins poster for the Bat Theatre (1922). ... ... Looking up inside the 32-story atrium of the Shanghai Grand Hyatt, part of the Jin Mao Building. ...

• Hall is also a surname of people, one of whose ancestors lived in a hall as distinct from one such as David M. Cote, whose ancestor will have lived in a cote, a much humbler place shared with the livestock.

Hall is a family name. ... A family name, or surname, is that part of a persons name that indicates to what family he or she belongs. ... David M. Cote is chairman and CEO of Honeywell. ... Sheep are commonly bred as livestock. ...

Association with salt

From a completely separate derivation:

A Hall is a brand of bitter (beer) made in Germany and sold worldwide, mainly across America.

• In German speaking areas, Hall (with a short a) can also form part of a town name, like Halle, where the name refers to hall, the Celtic word for salt (compare Welsh halen or Breton holen or Cornish holan). In this connection, Hall is the short form of the name of:

1. the medieval German town Schwäbisch Hall, where Hall was its whole name prior to 1933
2. the Austrian town Hall in Tirol near Innsbruck, which used to be called Solbad Hall from 1938 to 1974,
3. Hallstatt in Austria which gave its name to the Celtic Hallstatt culture.

Sir Charles Hallé (originally Karl Halle) lent his name to the Hallé Orchestra. His forbears were probably associated with the German town of Halle. The accent was added to his name in order to assist English-speakers in pronouncing the word. Halle (also called Halle an der Saale (literally Halle on the Saale, and in some historic references is not uncommonly called Saale after the river) in order to distinguish it from Halle in North Rhine-Westphalia) is the largest city in the German State of Saxony-Anhalt. ... Welsh redirects here, and this article describes the Welsh language. ... Schwäbisch Hall (or Hall for short) is a town in the German state of Baden-Württemberg; it is the capital of the district of Schwäbisch Hall. ... Hall in Tirol is a town in Austria. ... Innsbruck is a city in western Austria, and the capital of the federal state of Tyrol. ... Hallstatt, Upper Austria is a village in the Salzkammergut, a region in Austria. ... The Hallstatt culture was the predominant Central European culture during the local Bronze Age, and introduced the Iron Age. ... Karl Hallé (April 11, 1819–October 25, 1895), who later changed his first name to Charles, was a pianist and conductor. ... The Hallé Orchestra is one of Britains longest established orchestras, and is based in Manchester. ...

In the ancient world, the Celts were neighbours of the Greeks whose word for salt was halos (`αλοσ). While European science was developing, some branches of it adopted the Greek language as the source of its terminology. We therefore have words like halogen, halide, halotrichite and halocarbon. This article is about the chemical series. ... A halide is a binary compound, of which one part is a halogen atom and the other part is an element or radical that is less electronegative than the halogen, to make a fluoride, chloride, bromide, iodide, or astatide compound. ... A sample of Halotrichite Halotrichite, also known as feather alum, is a highly hydrated sulfate of aluminium and iron. ... Halocarbon compounds are chemicals in which one or more carbon atoms are linked by covalent bonds with one or more halogen atoms: fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine. ...