Agate House Pueblo

Agate House Pueblo
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Nearest city	Holbrook, Arizona
Coordinates	34°48′18″N 109°51′40″W
NRHP reference No.	75000170
Added to NRHP	October 06, 1975

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.

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.

Agate House images

Agate House Puieblo

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

See also

• Arizona portal
• National Register of Historic Places portal
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Navajo County, Arizona
• National Register of Historic Places listings in Petrified Forest National Park

External links

Media related to Agate House Pueblo at Wikimedia Commons

• Petrified Forest National Park.gov: Agate House