Hallway

{{short description|Room used to connect other rooms}}

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File:Luhrs Tower Hallway.jpg, 1929 office building in Phoenix, Arizona]]

File:A corridor in Govt. Medical College Hospital, Kollam May 2023.jpg, India]]

A hallway (also passage, passageway, corridor or hall) is an interior space in a building that is used to connect other rooms. Hallways are generally long and narrow.{{Cite book |url=https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/hallway |title=Collins Dictionary |publisher=HarperCollins Publishers}}

Hallways must be sufficiently wide to ensure buildings can be evacuated during a fire, and to allow people in wheelchairs to navigate them. The minimum width of a hallway is governed by building codes. Minimum widths in residences are {{convert|36|in|mm}} in the United States.{{cite book|last1=Mitton |first1=Maureen |last2=Nystuen |first2=Courtney |title=Residential Interior Design: A Guide to Planning Spaces |date=11 January 2011 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-118-04602-9 |page=201 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pkmhNQ0zNUMC&dq=hallway%20minimum%20width%2036%22&pg=PA201 |language=en}} Hallways are wider in higher-traffic settings, such as schools{{cite web |title=Guideline for Square Footage Requirements for Educational Facilities |url=https://www.gadoe.org/Finance-and-Business-Operations/Facilities-Services/Documents/4%20%20Guideline%20for%20Square%20Footage%20Requirements%20051012.pdf |publisher=Georgia Department of Education |access-date=10 March 2021 |quote=The minimum clear width of corridors shall be 8 feet when serving 2 or more IUs. Corridors, where lockers will be installed, shall be a minimum clear width of 9 feet if the lockers are on one side only. If there are to be lockers on both sides, the corridor must be at least 10 feet wide. |archive-date=21 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220321203102/http://www.gadoe.org/Finance-and-Business-Operations/Facilities-Services/Documents/4%20%20Guideline%20for%20Square%20Footage%20Requirements%20051012.pdf |url-status=dead }} and hospitals.{{cite web |last1=Carson |first1=Chip |title=The Life Safety Code and health care corridor width |url=https://www.nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Publications-and-media/NFPA-Journal/2013/January-February-2013/The-Experts/In-Compliance |website=www.nfpa.org |access-date=10 March 2021 |quote=According to NFPA 101®, Life Safety Code®, new health care facilities are required to have corridors {{convert|8|ft|m|abbr=off|sp=us}} “in clear and unobstructed width.” |archive-date=25 January 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210125142745/https://nfpa.org/News-and-Research/Publications-and-media/NFPA-Journal/2013/January-February-2013/The-Experts/In-Compliance |url-status=dead }}

In 1597 John Thorpe is the first recorded architect to replace multiple connected rooms with rooms along a corridor each accessed by a separate door.{{cite book|author=Judith Flanders|title=The Making of Home: The 500-Year Story of How Our Houses Became Our Homes|date=8 September 2015|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-1-4668-7548-7}}