[2] The original estate covered 1600 acres, and included the Loebs's summer home, caretakers houses, fields, orchards, and a livestock barn complex.

During the farm's operation, Loeb bred prize-winning stock of Holstein-Friesian cattle, Duroc-Jersey hogs, and Belgian horses.

Albert Loeb died in 1924, but his son Ernest continued the farm for a few years until financial difficulties forced its closure in 1927.

[3] After the farm ceased operations, the buildings remained in the Loeb family and were rented for storage space until 1962, when it was purchased by John Van Haver, an executive who restored the facility and opened it to the public.

The wood was used to build a 4 bedroom cottage, beginning in the winter of 1944, and completed by August 1945, on Oyster Bay in Lake Charlevoix that still stands today.

The horse barn is a long rectangular structure with a high hip roof, pierced on both sides by dormers with pointed-arch windows.