The house was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1948 and completed in 1952 for Mrs. Clinton "Della" Walker of Pebble Beach.

Della reached out to Frank Lloyd Wright and told him she wanted a house “as durable as the rocks and as transparent as the waves.

"[2][4][5] The house, an example of Wright's organic architecture, is built on a mass of granite boulders, uses the local Carmel-stone, and has a roof the color of the sea that is shaped to resemble a ship.

[6][7] It has a Usonian design; it was built as a 1,200 square feet (110 m2), single-story house that incorporates a hexagon concrete floor with 120-degree angles, with three rooms completely open with views of the ocean.

[10] In 1964, San Francisco sculptor Robert Howard installed a crushed stone and copper ore mermaid sculpture on the deck, called Undine.