How Big is a Longhouse?

While studying the Iroquois of New York, we found out that long ago they lived in houses called longhouses.  Some of these longhouses could have been up to 200 feet long and were the homes to entire clans or extended families. We wanted to know how much space a 200 foot longhouse  would take up.  To figure this question out, we used string and a yard stick to measure 200 feet in our playground/parking lot. (This was good practice using mental math)   It turns out that if you stand in the back right corner, it is approximately 200 feet to the center of the fence at the parking lot.  Here are some pictures.  It was difficult not to get all tangled up in our string!