Its two gables jut out to the sky. The three-compartment stilt house consists of 8,726 planks of 2x12x35cm of ca chit wood, which can be easily tenoned. The house was constructed on 7 October 1883 according to the design of a Laotian carpentry artisan Kha-Vi-Vong-Sao. His assistants included 14 major workers, 10 subordinate workers, and 18 elephants.

The construction lasted one year four months and twelve days. The stilt house was completed on 9 December 1885 and priced at twelve long-tusked elephants at that time. In 1929, the house was disassembled and moved to its present-day place (in Don Village), 1km away from its former location, to avoid a fire.