The Great House

Sand storm on our way to Phoenix...

The Casa Grande is the tallest and most massive Hohokam building known standing 35 ft tall and containing almost 3,000 tons of calliche-mud. It was completed around AD 1350.

The Hohokams were "Masters of the Desert". They built extensive irrigation canals, that are the foundation of the modern canals used to irrigate crops in the valleys along the Salt and Gilla rivers.

The Great House contained 11 rooms above a raised foundation constructed much like a platform mound. Its highest section is four stories high.