Strawberry Hills is also the home of a number of significant cultural organisations including Opera Australia, The Australia Council for the Arts, and numerous notable entertainment venues including the Belvoir Street Theatre and the Strawberry Hills Hotel, a renowned traditional Australian jazz venue located on Elizabeth Street.

Facing substantial debts, his holdings were subdivided into large blocks for the Provost Marshal's Sale of 1814.

He sold the property to Thomas Horton James, who subdivided the block as the Strawberry Hill Estate in 1832.

Strawberry Hill was a huge mound of sand, made mobile in the 1820s by the destruction of undergrowth by woodcutters, turfcutters, graziers and quarriers.

After World War II, regeneration of Surry Hills as a residential area began with an influx of migrants and change of policy.