[3] This hotel is situated on a 5,500 acres (22 km2) wooded site in Skytop, Pennsylvania, at an elevation of 1,500 feet in the Poconos.

The property includes a 75-acre lake, 30 miles of hiking trails, and an 18-hole golf course.

[4] Built at a cost of $750,000, the Dutch Colonial Revival hotel was designed by Rossiter & Muller and Mortimer Foster of New York.

[5] The Olmsted Brothers of Boston were hired to situate the hotel and design its gardens and grounds.

[1][6] The hotel has been described as "a Dutch Colonial-style field-stone castle in a country club setting,"[7] and as looming "like a palatial hunting chateau in a wide clearing in the woods – so grand you might think you were trespassing on the estate of an English lord.