Osage Orange Avenue
22 Taverner Street MADDINGLEY, MOORABOOL SHIRE
Statement of Significance
What is significant?
The Osage Orange Avenue and Windbreak at 22 Taverner Street, Maddingley.
How is it significant?
The Osage Orange Avenue and Windbreak at 22 Taverner Street, Maddingley are of local historical and aesthetic significance to the Shire of Moorabool.
Why is it significant?
The Osage Orange Avenue and Windbreak at 22 Taverner Street, Maddingley are of local historical significance as rare surviving examples of the use of Osage Orange trees for landscaping purposes. The long private driveway avenue and boundary windbreak of at least 50 Osage Orange (Maclura pomifera) trees planted from seeds imported by A. C. Simon from the United States in 1883 probably originally intended as hedges. The landscape features are also of historical significance for their associations with local pioneering orchardist, A. C. Simon.
The Osage Orange Avenue and Windbreak at 22 Taverner Street, Maddingley is of aesthetic significance for its scenic beauty and as a well-known landscaping landmark in Bacchus Marsh. The avenue was featured in early representative views and postcards of Bacchus Marsh.
1995
A long private driveway avenue and boundary windbreak, of at least fifty(?) Osage orange (Maclua pomifern ) trees planted from seeds imported from the United States in 1883(?) probably originally intended as hedges.
The avenue has regional historical significance as a landscaping practice , pioneering of its type, and now a relatively intact survival, in good condition. It has local aesthetic significance for its scenic beauty and "architectural" significance as an extraordinary example of planting configuration.
Finally it has local social significance as a well known landmark, particularly earlier, represented on representative views and postcards of Bacchus Marsh.
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