 Containing 14 rooms, the two storey house is the largest and most extravagant mansion built in the area that became known as the suburb of Toorak Gardens.With Burford's death in 1905, the property was bought by an investor from Broken Hill, Otto Georg Ludwig von Rieben.While maintaining and paying particular attention to the property, von Rieben eventually settled at "Pomona" at Mt Lofty in the Adelaide Hills.