Section: Specialized Buildings: polity owned
Variable: Special Purpose House
A normal house used in a distinctive or special manner. This code reflects differentiation between houses.  
Special Purpose House
#  Polity    Special Purpose House Tags Year(s) Edit Desc
1 Us Reconstruction-Progressive present Confident - Edit
In the south of America, where there were sprawling plantations and few villages, there were few public houses available for travellers. Therefore, it was common for travellers to request lodging at a private home. Brothels and bordellos were common. [1]

[1]: Volo and Volo 2004: 13, 17. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/SIB5XSW97.


2 Antebellum US present Confident - Edit
In the south of America, where there were sprawling plantations and few villages, there were few public houses available for travellers. Therefore, it was common for travellers to request lodging at a private home. Brothels and bordellos were common. [1]

[1]: Volo and Volo 2004: 13, 17. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/SIB5XSW97.


3 Tudor and Early Stuart England present Confident - Edit
“When not aiding their husbands and fathers in the fields, women cooked, sewed, and fetched water. Older children helped by looking after the family’s smaller children and animals. As we have seen, milk and wool could be sold for a little extra income. Another way to make extra money was to turn one’s dwelling into a “public house,” or “pub,” by brewing ale (traditionally a woman’s role).” [1] “The first plays in the English language were medieval mystery and mummers’ plays and pageants, mounted on religious feast days in communities large and small all over England and Wales. These were suppressed at the Reformation, but successive Protestant regimes sponsored anti-Catholic plays of their own. These and other short, secular interludes were performed in private houses by strolling bands of players. By the time of Elizabeth’s accession, fullfledged five-act plays were being mounted by young men at the universities and Inns of Court, especially during the Christmas holidays.” [2]

[1]: (Bucholz et al 2013: 21) Bucholz, Robert, Newton Key, and R.O. Bucholz. 2013. Early Modern England 1485-1714: A Narrative History. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uvic/detail.action?docID=1166775. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/XQGJH96U

[2]: (Bucholz et al 2013: 208) Bucholz, Robert, Newton Key, and R.O. Bucholz. 2013. Early Modern England 1485-1714: A Narrative History. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons. http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/uvic/detail.action?docID=1166775. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/XQGJH96U


4 Hohokam Culture present Confident - Edit
A village leader’s house was larger than others, owing to the fact that they were also used for food storage and potentially to house other members of the community when needed. [1]

[1]: McGuire 2018: 47. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/C9FB2IXT


5 Napoleonic France present Confident - Edit
Boarding houses were used by a family to offer lodging and food to travellers or short-term residents. [1]

[1]: Clapham 1955: 79. https://www.zotero.org/groups/1051264/seshat_databank/items/2QKQJQM3.


6 Plantagenet England present Inferred - Edit
It is likely there were special houses for activities like brewing, religious meetings etc, but the sources consulted have not mentioned this directly.
7 British Empire I present Inferred - Edit
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8 Khwarezmid Empire unknown Suspected - Edit
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9 Golden Horde unknown Suspected - Edit
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10 Holy Roman Empire - Ottonian-Salian Dynasty unknown Suspected - Edit
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