Agate House Pueblo
National Register of Historic Places

Agate House Pueblo

Holbrook, Navajo County, Arizona
Listed
October 5, 1975
Type
Site
Period
Modern
Ref No.
75000170

About this property

Agate House is a partially reconstructed Puebloan building in Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, United States, 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.

Location

Holbrook, Navajo County, Arizona
34.80502, -109.86177

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When was Agate House Pueblo listed on the National Register?

Agate House Pueblo was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 5, 1975.

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Agate House Pueblo is classified as a site in the National Register of Historic Places.

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The period of significance for Agate House Pueblo is recorded as the modern era, specifically around 900.

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