Park Orchards

Park Orchards is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 23 km north-east of Melbourne's Central Business District in the nearby government territory of the City of Manningham fundamentally, with a little part the southern side of Williams street additionally situated in the City of Maroondah. At the 2011 Census, Park Orchards, a Green Wedge region, had a populace of 3,718 and is recorded in the Australian Heritage Database. In 1902, conspicuous Victorian orchardist Tom Petty, acquired 559 sections of land of land north of the Mitcham area, and changed over it to 80 plantation hinders in an aspiring project.

In 1925, South Melbourne timber vendors Australis Sharp and John Taylor obtained Petty's property and propelled the Park Orchards Country Club Estate. They had the subdivisions structured by Saxil Tuxen and Miller. Tuxen had beforehand worked with Marion Mahony and Walter Burley Griffin on the Ranelagh Estate in Mt Eliza which Sharp and Taylor had possessed, and Park Orchards was planned around a comparable 'Nation Club' association that had turned out to be prominent amid the 1920s in the US.

The round road format is unmistakably enlivened by Mahony-Griffin style. The Clubhouse, named "The Chalet", was worked in a Spanish Mission style, including a blackwood framed inside, with a dance floor and pool rooms. The Estate neglected to pulls in purchasers amid the 1930s Depression and Sharp and Taylor cleared a significant part of the land and planted plant pine trees numerous which still stay to accommodate their timber yards.