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  Photograph @ Jeff Wellman; site elevations developed by the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) team of the Rocky Mountain Regional Office, National Park Service. |
This pueblito, with a very tightly built seven-room masonry
pueblo, started life as a hogan site around 1690. The pueblito was built in 1694. Unusual
in its construction, it has four main rooms and three "attached" rooms, all
closed in within a double-wide stone wall. The only way into these rooms was through roof
hatchways. The two "hooded fireplaces," identified by Pueblo people as ovens for
baking ceremonial breads, the heavy construction style, and the date all point to an
association with Jemez Pueblo. Jemez Pueblo sent a number of its religious leaders into
hiding in the Gobernador during the aftermath of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Tapacito
Pueblito may have sheltered some of these community members.
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