With this many fireplaces, smoke would fill up the house, so the house would be built with smoke holes in the roof. The typical long house was estimated to be about 50 feet long. The people would build their ceremonial building the same as their long house, but in mammoth proportion, sometimes up to 200 feet long and 30 feet high. The long house is basically a stretched out wigwam . The construction of a long house usually began with two parallel rows of straight elm-tree trunks.
Opposites are bent over and lashed to the other sides opposite, making a long row of arches.
Closing the ends of the long house was done in two different fashions. The first was to use semicircles of tree trunks bent over to join the main framework, or arches. The second was to place tree trunks in perpendicular position, in order to obtain flat ends. Finally, bark from trees was used to make the sides and roof of the complete long house. The villages of the Northeastern prehistoric cultures were based on the abounding forests and the lakes and streams nearby.