BUILDING 31: LONGHOUSE
The Longhouse at Lane serves as a multicultural, educational facility and as a meeting place for students and the community. Following years of advocacy and planning by students, staff and others, Lane was the first non-tribal community college in the nation to build a Native American Longhouse.
16 Douglas fir logs measuring 12 feet long by 20 inches in diameter serve as upright, interior supports for the 6,200 square foot Longhouse. The logs are from the Coquille Forest in Southwest Oregon and were donated and blessed by the Coquille Tribe before being turned at a mill in Molalla.