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Voting house, the Glossary

A voting house, sometimes called an election house, polling house, or a voting hall, is a type of American vernacular architecture used by local governments in rural areas of the United States as a polling station.^[1]

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Local government buildings in the United States
Vernacular architecture in the United States
Voting houses

Brushy Voting House No. 6

Brushy Voting House No. Voting house and Brushy Voting House No. 6 are Voting houses.

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Cobblestone Historic District

The Cobblestone Historic District is located along state highway NY 104 (Ridge Road) in Childs, New York, United States.

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County (United States)

In the United States, a county or county equivalent is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state or other territories of the United States which consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority.

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Cranston Voting House No. 12

The Cranston Voting House No. Voting house and Cranston Voting House No. 12 are Voting houses.

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Derry Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

Derry Township is a township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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Dorchester, Nebraska

Dorchester is a village in Saline County, Nebraska, United States.

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Farm shop

A farm shop, or "farm stand" in the United States, is a type of retail outlet which usually sells produce directly from a farm.

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Fire lookout tower

A fire lookout tower, fire tower, or lookout tower is a tower that provides housing and protection for a person known as a "fire lookout", whose duty it is to search for wildfires in the wilderness.

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Friend, Nebraska

Friend is a city in Saline County, Nebraska, United States.

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Garrett County, Maryland

Garrett County is the westernmost county of the U.S. state of Maryland completely within the Appalachian Mountains.

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Greensville County, Virginia

Greensville County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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Gristmill

A gristmill (also: grist mill, corn mill, flour mill, feed mill or feedmill) grinds cereal grain into flour and middlings.

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Haldeman Voting House No. 8

The Haldeman Voting House No. Voting house and Haldeman Voting House No. 8 are Voting houses.

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Midland Township, Gage County, Nebraska

Midland Township is one of twenty-four townships in Gage County, Nebraska, United States.

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Mississippi Highway 46

Mississippi Highway 46 (MS 46) is a state highway located in the U.S. State of Mississippi.

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Monmouth Township, Warren County, Illinois

Monmouth Township is located in Warren County, Illinois, United States.

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New Deal

The New Deal was a series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1938 to rescue the U.S. from the Great Depression.

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Nineteenth-century American county courthouse architecture

Nineteenth-century American county courthouse architecture was used in buildings designed to house judicial and administrative functions in styles such as Federal, Neoclassical, Italianate, Second Empire, and Romanesque Revival, which were adapted to local building materials and styles to accommodate local needs.

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Orleans County, New York

Orleans County is a county in the western part of the U.S. state of New York.

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Outbuilding

An outbuilding, sometimes called an accessory building or a dependency, is a building that is part of a residential or agricultural complex but detached from the main sleeping and eating areas.

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Parish granary

Parish granaries (sockenmagasin, pitäjänmakasiini) were communal granaries established in Sweden and Finland during the 18th and 19th century.

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Polling station

A polling place is where voters cast their ballots in elections.

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Potbelly stove

A potbelly stove is a cast-iron, coal-burning or wood-burning stove that is cylindrical with a bulge in the middle.

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Praise house

A praise house (also prayer house) was a type of vernacular religious architecture, typically built within the plantation complexes of the American South for the use of enslaved people who were legally bound to the property.

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Red Lodge, Montana

Red Lodge is a city and county seat of Carbon County, Montana, United States.

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Rocky Mount, North Carolina

Rocky Mount is a city in Nash and Edgecombe counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina.

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Saline County, Nebraska

Saline County is a county in the U.S. state of Nebraska.

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Shades of gray

Variations of gray or grey include achromatic grayscale shades, which lie exactly between white and black, and nearby colors with low colorfulness.

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Skippers, Virginia

Skippers is an unincorporated community in Greensville County, Virginia, United States.

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Slave quarters in the United States

Slave quarters in the United States, sometimes called slave cabins, were a form of residential vernacular architecture constructed during the era of slavery in the United States.

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U.S. Route 6

U.S. Route 6 (US 6) or U.S. Highway 6 (US 6), also called the Grand Army of the Republic Highway, honoring the American Civil War veterans association, is a main route of the United States Numbered Highway System.

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Vernacular architecture

Vernacular architecture (also folk architecture) is building done outside any academic tradition, and without professional guidance.

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Virginia

Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains.

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Warren County, Illinois

Warren County is a county in the U.S. state of Illinois.

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Water tower

A water tower is an elevated structure supporting a water tank constructed at a height sufficient to pressurize a distribution system for potable water, and to provide emergency storage for fire protection.

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Western Fields

Western Fields is a historic home located at Hebron, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States.

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Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania

Westmoreland County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States, located in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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Works Progress Administration

The Works Progress Administration (WPA; renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration) was an American New Deal agency that employed millions of jobseekers (mostly men who were not formally educated) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_house

Also known as Election house.

Voting house, the Glossary

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See also

Local government buildings in the United States

Vernacular architecture in the United States

Voting houses

References