The Cabin was built to house Elijah Cutler Behunin's family in 1883-84 in what is now Capitol Reef National Park in Utah. Elijah Cutler Behunin, a Mormon pioneer, was one of the very first Anglo-European settlers in the Capitol Reefs area. He and his family of ten built this dirt floor cabin in 1882. Elijah, his wife and their two smallest children slept in the cabin while their other children slept outside. The girls in the family's wagon and the boys in a dugout in the cliff.
The Behunins lived there for only a year. They abandoned the cabin when the river flooded and washed out their crops.

The one story sandstone structure measures 13 feet (4.0 m) by 16.5 feet (5.0 m), with a single room. The walls are sandstone covered with a plaster-cement wash. The roof structure is wood, covered with wood sheathing and bentonite clay.
The cabin was renovated in the 1960s by the National Park Service and represents the most intact example of a settler cabin in Capitol Reef National Park.