TB cabin with interpretive sign
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...
View ArticleCabin interior
The cabin was not served by electricity, gas, water or sewer in its service as a TB convalescent structure. However, the corner of the cabin exhibits a "dry sink." Santos Rubira installed the sink and...
View ArticleCabin interior - view 1
A photograph depicting the restored TB cabin interior furnished as it would have been in the 1920's. The spartan one-room house contains a bed, table and a chair. Other necessities include a fly...
View ArticlePitcher and basin, pot with lid and quilt
A photograph of a pitcher and basin as well as a pot and quilt. These are some of the items used to furnish the cabin. Cabins were grouped around an administrative house where meals were served and...
View ArticleMap of Cave Creek showing location of Desmount Sanitarium
Map denotes approximate location of Desmount Sanitarium with reference to 2007 landmarks and buildings.
View ArticleFront elevation of TB cabin with protective roof
Efforts were begun in July of 2006 to take steps to mitigate the destructive nature of the weather and sun damage to the structure. A protective roof was installed to cover the cabin. Shade screens are...
View ArticleRear of TB cabin
This elevation illustrates the cabin's gabled roof construction supported by 2" x 4" rafters covered with 1" x 10" pine boards and rolled roofing. The rafters are tied with light chain to withstand...
View ArticleProtective roof is installed over TB cabin
West northwest elevation of cabin seen with roof installed to protect structure from elements. Protective efforts were initiated in July 2006.
View ArticleSimply furnished cabin interior
The cabin's light, handy-man type construction and very unique framing point to its evolution from a tent. The sparseness of this building demonstrates the bleak existence of those who occupied it and...
View ArticleTB cabin after its move to Cave Creek Museum grounds
Front elevation of the TB cabin at its post-move location on the Museum grounds. The structure would be relocated on-site as the Museum added permanent buildings on-site to house expanding collections.
View ArticleSantos Rubira and Iveanne Scruggs in front of TB cabin
A newspaper photograph of the relocated TB cabin moved to the Cave Creek Museum grounds. The structure is seen mounted on a trailer. Cross bracing was used to stabilize the structure during the 1 mile...
View ArticleMoving the TB cabin
A newspaper photograph of the TB cabin being moved by trailer from a lot near the Horny Toad Restaurant to the Cave Creek Museum where it is to be a permanent display. The cabin's move was paid for by...
View ArticleTB cabin restoration opening exhibit
A newspaper image of the opening reception commemorating the completion of the restoration of the TB cabin at the Museum grounds. Santos Rubira, donator of the TB cabin, is seated.
View ArticleSam and Helen Jones
Sam and Helen Jones, one-time owners of the Desmount Sanitarium in the late 1920's. The sanitarium was a tuberculosis colony of approximately 16 cabins in Cave Creek, at the current site of the Horny...
View ArticleJones family
Photograph of the Jones family, at their Desmount Ranch property in the early 1940's. Pictured from left to right is son Mid (Middleton), Helen, and Sam. The family was the last owners of the TB...
View ArticleMid and Helen Jones at the time of owning Desmount Ranch
This photo shows son Mid with mother Helen Jones. The photo was taken about the time the family owned and managed the Desmount Sanitarium, a tubercular colony in Cave Creek. It was rumored that Helen...
View ArticleDetail of repair to building
Photograph detail of the ghost marking building repair where the drain and stove pipe exited the structure. Since the "dry sink" and stove were not part of the original structure, these items had to be...
View ArticleNational Register of Historic Places Plaque
The cast bronze plaque commemorates the TB cabin's placement on the National Historic Register of Places by the US Department of Interior and the National Park Service on October 28, 2001. The cabin's...
View ArticleLetter from Arizona State Historic Preservation Office
Notification letter from the Arizona Historic Preservation Office on TB cabin being recognized on the National Register of Historic Places.
View ArticleDel Albers memorial card
Memorial card of Del Albers, (deceased 2005). Del served as museum board member and volunteer, and buildings and grounds committee chair, was responsible for painting, restoring and submitting the...
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