Agate House Pueblo

Archaeological site in Arizona, United States

United States historic place
Agate House Pueblo
34°48′18″N 109°51′40″W / 34.80500°N 109.86111°W / 34.80500; -109.86111
NRHP reference No.75000170
Added to NRHPOctober 06, 1975[1]

Agate House is a partially reconstructed Puebloan building in Petrified Forest National Park, built almost entirely of petrified wood. The eight-room pueblo has been dated to approximately the year 900 and occupied through 1200, of the Pueblo II and Pueblo III periods. The agatized wood was laid in a clay mortar, in lieu of the more usual sandstone-and-mortar masonry of the area.[2]

The ruins of Agate House were reconstructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933-34 under the direction of C.B. Cosgrove Jr. of the New Mexico Laboratory of Anthropology. Room 7 was fully reconstructed with a new roof. Room 2's walls were rebuilt to a height of five feet, but not roofed, and the remaining walls were rebuilt to a height of two or three feet.[3]

Agate House images

Agate House Puieblo
  • The Agate House
    The Agate House
  • The Agate House
    The Agate House
  • Agate House window
    Agate House window
  • Roof entrance
    Roof entrance
  • Where the meals were cooked
    Where the meals were cooked
  • Wall inside the Agate House
    Wall inside the Agate House

See also

References

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ "Agate House". Petrified Forest National Park. National Park Service. November 26, 2008.
  3. ^ "Agate House". List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. November 26, 2008. Archived from the original on May 21, 2011. Retrieved November 26, 2008.

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Media related to Agate House Pueblo at Wikimedia Commons

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