The estate was built in the year of 1769 as customs station and as residence for the customs officer. The city limits was drawn just outside in the park – Södra parken - at the small stream.

In 1859, Amalia Eriksson and her spouse the tailor Anders Eriksson (since 1857 the inhabitants of the estate), applied for a permit to run a sugar-bakery. She received her permit and that very same year Amalia starts her make in the kitchen behind the hotels newly extended reception. She conducted the sale in the dining room next to the kitchen and had her wares displayed in cabinets, on tables and in drawers. That year, 1859, marks the start of making sugar sweets in Gränna.

What would she have said about the fact, if she had known, that her particular sugarsweet – polkagris in Swedish – is one of the most famous sweets, and souvenirs, of today? There are at least 10 million makings of polkagrisen per year in Gränna these days, and you might find the sweets here, there and everywhere in the world. Amalia Eriksson was in 1997, by the Cultural Institution, honoured and a bronze statue, made by the artist Lena Lervik was raised as a mark of respect. The statue is placed on public view in the park outside the hotel.

By 1887 one of the houses was inhabited by the painting artist and master Georg Bernhard Berggren. When the Order of Knights Templar in autumn that year was launched in Gränna, by building the temple Alpha, Berggren was one of its founders. The monument in the park, erected in 1938, bear witness to this event. Berggren had his studio in the yards middle green house. Therefore the room is called the studio – Atelje in swedish. He later, after Amalia moved to another address in Gränna, lived in the main building of the estate.

Berggren was also a good friend of Count Folke Bernadottte, and the Count, at one of his visits, presented a gift to his dear friend. This gift was a copper lantern and is yet of today displayed at the top of the stairs in the garden. This lantern originated from the House of Dragoons at Royal Djurgården in Stockholm. Georg Berggren died March 29 1946.