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 / 34.80500°N 109.86111°WCoordinates: 34°48′18″N 109°51′40″W / 34.80500°N 109.86111°W
NRHP Reference #	75000170
Added to NRHP	October 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]

References

1. National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
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.

External links

Media related to Agate House Pueblo at Wikimedia Commons

• Petrified Forest National Park.gov: Agate House