Hooded Fireplace

Hooded Fireplace Ruin is one of several publicly accessible interpretive cultural sites administered by the Bureau of Land Management, Farmington Field Office in New Mexico. Hooded Fireplace is unusual in that it was built on a broad bench on the side of a mesa overlooking Largo Canyon. Most other pueblitos were built in even more defensive locations - on a boulder or a pinnacle. Hooded Fireplace is larger than the majority of pueblito sites, with six contiguous rooms, all of which were built at the same time in the late summer or early fall of 1723. The site is named for the well-preserved Spanish-style hooded fireplace in the corner of one of the rooms. An intact roof, with a corner entry way, still covers the room. Despite its large size, it was probably not occupied for more than a few years. Hooded Fireplace Ruin was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. For more information visit: https://www.blm.gov/visit/defensive-sites-of-dinetah