Yana cikin tsakiyar gandun daji na Chapultepec, wannan Gidan ya taɓa zama gidan Shugaban Mexico. Ga wani abu game da tarihinsa.
Aikin farko don ginin Babban gidan sarauta An aiwatar da shi a lokacin mulkin mataimakan Matías da Bernardo Gálvez, tsakanin 1784 da 1786.
Tun da farko an yi niyya ne a matsayin sansanin soja, amma an dakatar da aikin daga kambin daga Madrid. Daga baya an sake farawa zuwa ƙarshen karni na 18 tare da shirye-shiryen injiniyan Miguel Constanzó, bin layin neoclassical, kuma anyi amfani dashi azaman kwalejin soja a cikin 1841.
Tare da isowa na Maximilian na Habsburg an yi ginin Fadar Masarauta. An kara rukuni na biyu na façade zuwa ginin farko kuma an tsara juzu'in don juya shi zuwa gidan zama tare da shirye-shiryen da aka ba da izini daga Faransa, gami da sansanin soja. Tare da maido da Jamhuriya, an yi amfani da gidan sarauta a matsayin gidan zama na shugaban kasa, kuma da wannan halayyar mazaunan ne suke zaune Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, sannan Porfirio Díaz kuma daga ƙarshe shuwagabannin bayan juyin-juya hali irin su Plutarco Elías Calles. Da isowar Lázaro Cárdenas, hedikwatar fadar shugaban kasa ta bar gidan sarautar don sauka a kusa da Molino del Rey, a yankin da ake kira Los Pinos.
Daga 1944 da Gidan Tarihi na Nacional.
