Log Cabin Study of Dr. Arthur Carroll Scott

The cabin shows Scott at rest; the Handbook shows him in public life. He served as president of the Texas Association of Railway Surgeons, the Southern Surgical Society, the Twelfth District Medical Society, the Bell County Medical Society and the Texas Medical Association, and for many years chaired the Texas committee of the American Society for the Control of Cancer. He was a Presbyterian and a Mason. The Handbook says his work on the diagnosis and treatment of malignant diseases drew national and international recognition, and that he died in Temple on October 27, 1940.

What the plaque says

Log Cabin Study of Dr. Arthur Carroll Scott (July 12, 1865-October 27, 1940) Co-founder of Scott and White Memorial Hospital, Dr. Scott used this cabin from 1920s to 1940 as a private study and retreat. In these rooms (originally two small log "corn cribs" moved here and attached) he studied, wrote, and entertained guests. Fireplace is built of unusual stones brought by friends, who knew he was a rock enthusiast. For years the cabin stood in an oak grove on hospital dairy farm (2.6 mi. NW) surrounded by masses of yellow jasmine and petunias. Dr. Scott never allowed a telephone, so a bell on the farm was rung to call him in case of an emergency. Reared in Gainesville, Scott earned M.D. degree at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, 1886. In 1892 he became chief surgeon of Santa Fe Railway Hospital, Temple; in 1897, began private practice with another Santa Fe surgeon, Dr. R.R. White (1871-1917). The partners in 1904 founded Temple Sanitarium--progenitor of Scott and White Hospital, one of the nation's foremost diagnostic and treatment centers, attracting tens of thousands of patients annually. For years expansion was met with temporary quarters until, by 1960, hospital occupied 31 buildings. In 1963 a new $10 million hospital complex opened; in 1972 cabin was moved here and dedicated as a museum. (1972)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum — 1.3 mi
  The Santa Fe depot of 1911 in a railroad town that began in 1880 as a construction camp, now a museum with locomotives and cars parked beside the active rail yard.
• Mother Neff State Park — 19 mi
  A Leon River park that grew from six acres Isabella Neff left the state in her 1921 will, where Civilian Conservation Corps Company 817 built a stone tower, a pavilion and roads in the 1930s.
• Milam County Courthouse and Jail — 28 mi
  Cameron's 1892 Renaissance Revival courthouse and the 1895 St. Louis-built jail beside it, now the county museum, are listed together on the National Register.

More markers nearby

• Ralph Wilson, Sr. — 0.2 mi
• Former Site of Scott & White School of Nursing — 0.3 mi
• Scott & White Hospital — 0.3 mi
• Arthur Carroll Scott, Sr., M.D. — 0.3 mi