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 Haudenosaunee longhouse (c.1885) 50–60 people
Haudenosaunee 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).
Old Man House
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The Old Man House was the largest winter longhouse in what is now the U.S. state of Washington, once standing on the shore of Puget Sound. It was the center of the Suquamish village of dxʷsəq̓ʷəb on Ag
Longhouses of the Indigenous peoples of North America
…covered with split log planks, and sometimes an additional bark cover. Cedar is the preferred lumber. The wealthy built extraordinarily large longhouses. Old Man House, built by the Suquamish, at what became the Port Madison Squamish Reservation, was 152 by 12–18 m (500 by 40–60 ft), c. 1850. Usually one doorway faces…
Old Man House Park in Suquamish on Agate Passage, former location of the Old Man House