Jospeph Palethorpe painted this view of Pumpkin Cotatge in 1934. "A cottage nestled amongst tall trees behind a fence; a Silverstream landscape with tall trees in a field, hills in the background and a fence and trees beyond the field. By the 1930s the cottage was in poor shape. St Patrick’s College, which had bought the land and cottage in 1926 and extended it to be used as accommodation for the College, restored and leased it again to artists until 1949, when the lease was revoked. But by the 1970s the cottage was run down and, despite a concerted campaign beginning in 1974, the move to save the building failed. St Patrick’s College demolished it in 1980 but the Fergusson Drive site, now Pumpkin Cottage Reserve, was marked in 2000 by a Hutt River boulder donated by Ernest and Shirley Cosgrove.