 For Streeton, Eaglemont (as it became known) was the ideal working environment—a reasonably isolated rural location accessible by public transport.The house itself could be seen by visitors as they arrived at Heidelberg railway station.Streeton spent the first few nights at Eaglemont alone with the estate's tenant farmer Jack Whelan (who appears in Streeton's "pioneer" painting "The selector's hut (Whelan on the log)", 1890), and slept upon the floor, the rooms being bare of furniture.