The farm is interesting because it has resisted the inroads of construction for so long. Its cows, pastured in the apple orchard on the northeastern corner of Cole avenue and Mount street, while reflectively chewing their cuds, have watched the tennis matches across the street at the East Side Tennis Club. Thousands of chickens have lived their lives since the section became residential. Many crops of garden produce have been raised, to be distributed in the built-up sections just outside in the farm fences. The milk from the farm, and several times the amount actually obtained, could be taken by the houses standing within a stone’s throw of it. But the low, story-and-a-half colonial house which stands in the centre of the farm’s three and a half acres is actually more interesting than the farm itself. It is far more interesting than the comparatively modern building on the Dexter Asylum grounds. For this old house was built almost half a century before the American Revolution – and has been continuously occupied ever since.