The historic site is unusual in Winnipeg as the building still sits on its original foundations, and much of the surrounding homestead remains undeveloped.

It is open seasonally from the May-long weekend to Labour Day, Two buildings survive on the site: Seven Oaks House is the oldest home in Winnipeg.

The nine room home was built in a Vernacular Georgian style for John Inkster, a prominent local businessman and politician.

Born in Scotland in 1799, he arrived in the Northwest in 1821 as a Hudson's Bay Company servant,[5] but soon became a farmer in the Red River Settlement.

During the Red River Resistance, Inkster was appointed to represent the English-speaking community of St. John's Parish on Louis Riel's Provisional Government, but illness prevented him from participating.