The cabin itself is a single-story log structure with a gabled roof, on 10 acres (4.0 ha) of land that has a park-like setting.

The cabin is now sheltered from the elements by a brick structure built in the 1930s.

Unschooled except in tribal ways and customs, he came to understand the value of writing, especially in dealing with adjacent British settlers.

In the 1820s he moved west, to instruct western Cherokees in the writing system.

The shelter over the building was built by the Works Progress Administration in 1936,[4] and is surrounded by a 10-acre (40,000 m2) park.