Located on the edge of McGurk's Meadow, just to the north of the Glacier Point Road, the cabin was used by a series of owners beginning with Hugh Davanay, from whom McGurk bought the property in 1895.

McGurk was evicted by the Army in 1897 after a dispute over title to the land.

It is one of the few structures left in the park that remain from the pre-park era.

[2] The cabin was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 4, 1979.

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