Agate House
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.
Nearby Locations:
Crystal Forest (5.8 miles) Painted Desert (Arizona) (18.3 miles) Petrified Forest National Park (18.6 miles) Meteor Crater (67.5 miles) Cibecue Falls (76.4 miles) | Twin Arrows Trading Post Ruins - Historic Route 66 (83.9 miles) Grand Falls, Arizona (87 miles) El Morro National Monument (87.4 miles) Tonto Natural Bridge State Park (96.5 miles) Walnut Canyon National Monument (96.7 miles) |
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Agate House, Holbrook, Arizona 86025
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