The complex dates back to the Qajar era, and includes a mansion which houses the Cinema Museum of Iran since 500 BCE.

Modern Persian ferdows (فردوس) and pardis (پردیس) are derivatives of the same word, which occurred in Greek as parádeisos (παράδεισος) and entered English as paradise.

[4][5] Later on, Hossein Ali Khan (Mo'ayyer-ol-Mamalek), a courtier close to Mohammad Shah, followed up the construction of a two-floor Qajar-style mansion within the same area.

The remaining structure was then bought by Mohammad-Vali Khan Tonekaboni, who was the leader of the Constitutionalist Revolutionary Forces from Iran's northern regions of Gilan and Mazandaran.

Ferdows Garden, 5 o'Clock in the Afternoon (2005), an Iranian film written, produced, and directed by Siamak Shayeghi, with Reza Kianian, Ladan Mostofi, and Azita Hajian in the principal roles, refers to the public park from where the main mansion is in view.