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Manitou Cliff Dwellings
The Manitou Cliff Dwellings Museum is located in Manitou Springs, Colorado and exhibits relocated Anasazi Indian cliff dwellings. From 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1300, the Anasazi lived and roamed the Four Corners area of the United States Southwest, which is a region consisting of the southwestern corner of Colorado, northwestern corner of New Mexico, northeastern corner of Arizona and southeastern corner of Utah. The museum was established in 1904 and opened to the public in 1907. The Anasazi did not live in Manitou Springs, but lived and built their cliff dwellings several hundred miles southwest of the area. The Manitou Cliff Dwelling stones were taken from a collapsed Anasazi site near Cortez in southwest Colorado, shipped by railroad to Manitou Springs and assembled in their present form as Anasazi-style buildings closely resembling those found in the Four Corners. The project was done with the approval and participation of well-known anthropologist Dr. Edgar Lee Hewett, and Virginia McClurg, founder of the Colorado Cliff Dwelling Association.
 
 
 
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