School and Health Service
In 1931 the house was taken over by St Margaret's School, which occupied the site until 1938. It then became an aftercare centre for polio patients and was used by the Australian Red Cross during World War II. The Health Department then occupied the site between 1953 and 1957.
In 1957 the property became the campus for the Toorak Teachers College, then the State College Toorak in 1973 and finally the Toorak campus of Victoria College in 1981. Stonnington became a campus of Deakin University in 1992 when Victoria College merged with that university.
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