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The Agate House -
The Agate House -
Agate House window -
Roof entrance -
Where the meals were cooked -
Wall inside the Agate House
Agate House Pueblo | |
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| Nearest city | Holbrook, Arizona |
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| Coordinates | 34°48′18″N 109°51′40″W / 34.80500°N 109.86111°W |
| NRHP reference No. | 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]
