Built before the Revolutionary War, it is one of only two remaining Dutch Colonial stone houses in Hyde Park.

[2] It is a five-by-two-bay one-story building with a slate-covered gambrel roof pierced by two brick chimneys at the gable ends.

[1] John Bergh inherited the lands from his father Christian in the years before the Revolution, along with his brother-in-law Martin Dop.

Both of them built houses on them sometime between 1771 and 1780, as they appear on a map of the Albany Post Road (later to become Route 9 through Hyde Park) drawn by Robert Erskine, Surveyor-General of the Continental Army, in the last years of his life, between 1778 and 1780.

The restaurant heavily remodeled the interior in keeping with Japanese dining traditions, though it still retains some of the original furnishings, such as the fireplace.