title: Wheelhouse
text: # Wheelhouse
  
  Wheelhouse or Wheel-house may refer to:
  
  ## Architecture
  
  * Wheelhouse (archaeology), a prehistoric structure from the Iron Age found in Scotland
  * A building or portion of a building that contains a water wheel
     * Radstube, a building or underground chamber in a mine housing a water wheel
  
  ## Transport on water
  
  * Bridge (nautical), also known as a pilothouse, the location of the ship's wheel of a boat or ship
  * The covering or housing of a paddle wheel in a paddle steamer also known as the paddle-box
  
  ## Transport on land
  
  * Wheelhouse or wheel well, the part of a vehicle body surrounding one of the wheels, typically a fender or a smaller part attached to the inner surface of the fender
  * A turntable (rail)-like device which allows wagons to switch tracks
  * Doolittle Maintenance and Storage Facility, used for Bay Area Rapid Transit's Beige Line which goes by the nickname of "the Wheelhouse"
  
  ## Sport
  
  * In baseball jargon: The sweet spot of a baseball player's strike zone where the most power and strength can be utilized
  * An English language idiom derived from the baseball jargon, meaning area of knowledge
  
  ## Music
  
  * Wheelhouse (album), a 2013 album by Brad Paisley
  * Wheelhouse Records, an imprint of BBR Music Group
  
  ## Other uses
  
  * Wheelhouse (surname)
  * Wheelhouse Magazine, an online progressive arts and politics magazine
  * Wheelhouse Maritime Museum, museum run by the Underwater Society of Ottawa
  