This is one of the few surviving pre-Civil War hotels left in Iowa, and one of the largest early stone structures remaining in rural Dubuque County.

[2] The three-story building is composed of native limestone with a cupola on top of the hip roof.

At one time it was situated on a 40-acre (16 ha) plot of land on which were several out buildings for an agricultural operation that included an orchard and vineyard.

Before national prohibition in 1919 the inn included a beer garden, tavern and dance hall.

This article about a property in Dubuque County, Iowa on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.