On these terraces, 40–70 tent cottages housed ambulatory tuberculosis patients between 1900 and 1963. These two-man cottages had roll-up canvas sides that were kept open for the fresh air regarded as essential to curing tuberculosis. More permanent wood-frame cottages later replaced the tents. An aerial photo shows the later wood-frame cottages as well as the fort behind this site and the CCC camp across the Rio Bonito. Early in his assignment at Fort Stanton, Dr. P.M. Carrington, medical officer in charge from 1900 to 1907, became an ardent advocate of the tent as a dwelling for consumptives, beginning the experiment with 2 or 3 patients and expanding it to over 50 patients in tents after it proved successful.