Consisting of three multi-component sites, the complex has the potential to provide important information about the design and development of Ancestral Puebloan communities.  While there is evidence of earlier habitation, the most extensive, visible and impressive architectural elements are from the Great Pueblo Period (AD 1075-1300).  Its over 90 rooms, 14 kivas, and a dance plaza constitutes one of the largest satellite settlements of the 13th century community known today as Yellow Jacket.

This well preserved large canyon oriented settlement, dating to the late Pueblo III period (AD 1150-1300), has the potential to yield important information about the conditions that led to regional abandonment and the role of intensified horticulture. 

The site comprises the residential, political and ceremonial core of a larger dispersed community that occupied the area in the late 1100s and early 1200s.

The multi-roomblock settlement was occupied in the late 1100s and early 1200s.  The site has the potential to provide information about the nature and organization of prehistoric communities.  Listed under Great Pueblo Period of the McElmo Drainage Unit, AD 1075-1300 Multiple Property Submission.

The Puzzle House Archaeological District contains four major habitation sites, three pre-Columbian road segments, and numerous other sites, features and artifacts representing a residential community associated with adjacent Lowry Pueblo, a great house complex that shows evidence of influence or alliance with the large Chacoan centers to the south. 

Puzzle House is a multi-component Ancestral Pueblo habitation site that attracted residents at three different times, beginning as early as AD 650 and twice later from about AD 1075-1225.  

In an area with numerous pueblo ruins, this pueblo site is noteworthy because of its size and the presence of unusual features-notably the great kiva and an abundance of red ware pottery sherds.  The site shows potential for significant archaeological research because of its large size, integrity, and proximity to Lowry Ruin.

Constructed in 1903, the building is a product of Late Victorian architecture, employing elements from several styles.  Its eclectic design and stone construction are very unusual for Mancos.

Completed in 1910, the red brick building with cast concrete trim was the center of widespread community activity in Mancos and drew people from neighboring towns.  Designed in the early 20th century Commercial style, it is one of the largest commercial buildings in Mancos and Montezuma County. 

The 1909 two-story sandstone building was the first high school constructed in Montezuma County.