Casa Grande Ruins National Monument offers a window on the Hohokam era. Four stories high and 60 feet long, it has stood for more than six centuries. Early Spanish explorers called it Casa Grande, and to them it was a mystery. Photo by Sergey Shayevich / Arizona Daily Star, taken June 17, 1999.
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
The Casa Grande Ruins are located in Coolidge, Ariz., in Pinal County.
The Casa Grande, or great house, is a four-story, 11-room structure built about 700 years ago. The ruins are believed to be what is left of structures built by the Hohokam people, an ancient Sonoran Desert culture, but their purpose is unknown.
