Casa Grande is a late Hohokam archaeological site on the Gila River near Florence, Arizona. The site itself is consisted of a large four-story multiroom structure and numerous outbuildings, as well as relic irrigation canals. Today the outbuildings have disappeared and the central building rises only twenty to twenty-five feet, with a thirty-five foot central tower. This structure, which has adobe walls three to five feet thick, has five rooms on the ground floor and presumably had a similar number of rooms on each of the others.
———The site was occupied between A.D. 1200 and A.D. 1450, at which time the Hohokams were in decline. The Anasazi peoples to the north and east began exerting considerable influence among the Hohokams at this time as well. The architecture of Casa Grande illustrates the influence, as it more closely resembles Anasazi dwellings than it does earlier Hohokam villages. The site apparently was abandoned prior to the arrival of the first Europeans.

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