This traditional-style longhouse is a 1940 replication of a Tlingit community house and marks the site of Tlingit and British strongholds. The house was surrounded by seven totem poles, two of which are original Tlingit work, and five of which are copies created by crews of the Civilian Conservation Corps that also built the house.t was restored in 2013. When the original structure was built, 100 slaves were sacrificed for each of its four house posts as a tribute to the first Chief Shakes. As many as 80 people, including slaves and extended family members, lived there, with Chief Shakes, occupying a private area behind the carved wall screen. The site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 It is located on Shakes Island, inside Wrangell Harbor,