 It was built by the boys under the supervision of Hill and was relocated on completion of the new dormitory wing in 1923.The Rev.Percy Stacy Waddy, resigning as headmaster in 1916 and leaving the school to enlist in the Australian Imperial Force (the School Council twice having refused him leave for such an undertaking), conveyed freehold title of Macarthur House to the school in 1916, after when it was used as one of the school's boarding houses and renamed "Macarthur House" in honour of the Rev.