A longhouse or long house is a type of long, proportionately narrow, single-room building for communal dwelling. It has been built in various parts of the world including Asia, Europe, and North America.
A North American Pacific Northwest Coast-style longhouse at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
A reconstructed Viking chieftain's longhouse at the Lofotr Viking Museum in Lofoten, Norway
Reconstructed Viking longhouse in Ale, north of Gothenburg, Sweden
Dartmoor granite longhouse
Longhouses of the Indigenous peoples of North America
Longhouses were a style of residential dwelling built by Native American and First Nations peoples in various parts of North America. Sometimes separate longhouses were built for community meetings.
Later day Iroquois longhouse (c.1885) 50–60 people
Iroquois longhouse replica in New York State Museum, Albany, NY
A Northwest Coast longhouse at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia
Interior of a Salish Longhouse, British Columbia, 1864. Watercolour by Edward M. Richardson (1810–1874).