Agate House Pueblo

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]

Agate House Pueblo
Nearest cityHolbrook, Arizona
Coordinates34°48′18″N 109°51′40″W
NRHP reference No.75000170
Added to NRHPOctober 06, 1975[1]

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
  • Agate House window
  • Roof entrance
  • Where the meals were cooked
  • 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. 2008-11-26.
  3. "Agate House". List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. 2008-11-26. Archived from the original on 2011-05-21. Retrieved 2008-11-26.

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