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Chase Farm/Chase House
The Hutton Farm Site on Hardey Road, is often known as Chase Farm. The site was originally taken up by John Wall Hardey, who built a house, lived there for a time and then moved across the river to what is now Belmont.
John Wall Hardey then offered ‘Chase Farm’, on the Peninsula, for sale in the Gazette, on the 14th of February 1835. (Presumed to be Lot ‘D’ on the corner) Of note is that he is now living in ‘Grove Cottage’ (on the other side of the Swan).
The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal (WA : 1833 – 1847) Sat 25 Apr 1835 (Via Trove) | By the 24th of April 1835,John Wall Hardey was offering all of the stock on ‘Chase Farm’ for sale. Also included was a sailboat and a cart. |
He then sold the land to fellow Tranby passengers Marmaduke & Mary Hutton. It is believed Hutton worked it for the next four years. The property consisted of a brick residence and barn; a brick lined well; and an orchard of Pear, Pomegranate, Olive and Almond trees. (a pear and pomegranate tree are still on the site today. Their house and barn were demolished in the 1920s).
In February 1841, Marmaduke was still farming on the Peninsula Farm. He was also on the Board of Management for the Perth Native School along with the Hardeys, Clarksons, and Richard Rowland. Also in 1841, Philip Lamothe Snell Chauncy (the assistant government surveyor) surveyed the area that the Hutton’s were farming. He identified the main building, out of two roughly parallel buildings, as ‘Chase House’. Marmaduke died young, at only 47 years old, on the 2nd of August 1843. At various dates, following his death, his 48-year-old widow, Mary Hutton leased out the couple’s Peninsula farming Locations: D, E, M, and N, to Joseph Hardey. This included Chase House. Mary Hutton was, at that stage, working and living in Perth.
Inside Schulstad’s factory producing dairy equipment. | Around 1913; the Schulstad family settled at Chase Farm. It became a Dairy farm owned by the Dutch immigrant. Between the World Wars they established the Schulstad factory to manufacture their specially patented ‘Dennis Saw’ and other equipment. After the factory closed, the land reverted to parkland managed by the City of Bayswater. The area now contains the Amateur Boat Building Yard. |
You can read more Chase House on our Chase House | Flickr page.