The CWA leased a home from 'Mrs Fred Rewell' so the hostel could open in time for the start of the 1938 school year. It was the first CWA school hostel and was later named after its founder, Mrs Mary Adamson of Haisthorpe, Beverley, who was the president of the western division of the CWA.
From 1969, management of Adamson House merged with the nearby St Christopher's Hostel, Northam, which was for boys.
Adamson House became the site for Northam Residential College in 2003.
In 2011, the Special Inquiry into St Andrew's Hostel, Katanning heard testimony that a female warden at the hostel was being 'investigated by police for sexual misconduct allegations' in 1987. Evidence about earlier concerns about a male staff member being near to the girls' showers was also mentioned at the Inquiry.
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