The Tubercular Cabin at the Cave Creek Museum is a small, one room, wooden cabin that was originally used to house a patient suffering from tuberculosis. This is the east-southeast elevation of the TB cabin with screened wooden shutters. The 10' x 12' lightweight construction with 2" x 4" interior framing is supporting the windows, door and roof. The simple handyman structure has vertical bead siding and is partially supported by framing, however there are no studs in the building corners, the sides being simply nailed to its adjoining piece. Its wood frame floor now rests on a concrete slab, but most likely, originally it sat on a gravel bed, much like a tent.
↧