[3] Bush, an immigrant from England, bought the property in 1717 and then began building the house.

Cary had completed the Governor's Palace and built the President's House and chapel at the College of William & Mary.

He was elected mayor of Williamsburg two times and he was the clerk of the Committee of Courts of Justice at the House of Burgesses.

[3] In 1782, there were six structures on the lot, including a kitchen, smokehouse, stables, privies, laundry, and a dairy.

It has formal-style gardens behind the house and natural English landscape surrounding the pond.