Alexander Collie was appointed Government Resident of Albany in 1831 and moved into a wattle and daub cottage situated on the farm.

[1] Collie retired in 1832 and his successor was D. H. Macleod but it was the farm superintendent John Lawrence Morley who handed the property onto Richard Spencer.

[4] Spencer arranged for the erection of a granite two-storey building at the rear end of the original wattle and daub structure at a cost of £100.

[5] Francis Bird, the Chief Architect of Western Australia, acquired the property in 1889 and changed the name from Strawberry Hill to the Old Farm.

[1] The site lay derelict for many years until being purchased by the Federal Government in 1956[1] and it was then vested in the National Trust of Australia in 1964.