Built in 1831, the hotel was located at Wolf Point in the present-day Loop community area at the intersection of the north, south and main branches of the Chicago River.

In 1826 they moved to Chicago on the advice of Mark's elder brother Jean, an established trader who lived next to Fort Dearborn.

The Beaubiens settled in a small cabin on Wolf's Point and also traded with the Native Americans and other travelers to the growing settlement.

Juliette Kinzie, who came to Chicago from Connecticut in 1831, described it as "a pretentious white two-story building, with bright blue wood shutters, the admiration of all the little circle at Wolf Point".

[8] On August 18, 1835, two years after the Potawatomi natives signed the treaty agreeing to be moved to a reservation beyond the Mississippi River in northwestern Missouri, they selected 800 braves to perform their last war dance parade on a path that passed in front of the hotel.

[8] Born in approximately 1780, "Sauganash" was half native-American whose father was Colonel Caldwell, an Irish officer in the British Army stationed at Detroit; his mother was a Pottawatomi.

As a warrior, Sauganash was under the influence of Tecumseh until he died in 1813, and he rose to the level of a Captain in the British Indian Department during the War of 1812.

Co-managers Harry Isherwood and Alexander McKinzie procured an amusement license for the company from the city council, and it began performing a different billed show every night starting in late October or early November for approximately six weeks.