Early in the 1880s, merchant Reuben Nicklin built a large house "Langlands" in Coorparoo. In 1886, Nicklin built another house "Hatherton" (now Queen Alexandra Home) at another site in Coorparoo and sold the "Langlands" house and its grounds. (Nicklin and his wife died in the wreck of the "RMS Quetta" in 1890). Thomas Connah and William Brookes bought a large block of land that included Nicklin's house. Connah resided in Nicklin's former residence. Connah became Queensland Auditor-general and he sold "Langlands" to Archbishop James Duhig in 1916. "Langlands" became the Good Samaritan Convent of Saint Scholastica until 1953, when Villanova College moved from Whinstanes to the Coorparoo property.