Hall and parlor house

An exterior door leads to the hall, the larger of the two rooms and the one in the front of the house.

[4] In colonial America, hall-and-parlor houses were two rooms wide and one deep.

In the Southern Colonies, there were usually flush or exterior gable-end chimneys on one or both sides of the house.

The houses were most often of wood-frame construction on a brick or stone foundation, but sometimes the entire structure was masonry.

The larger hall was the general-purpose room and, if a loft existed, contained a stairway or ladder to it.