Mueller Park is a park in

Subiaco, Western Australia Subiaco (known colloquially as Subi) is an inner-Western suburbs (Perth), western suburb of Perth, the capital of Western Australia. It is approximately west of Perth's central business district, in the City of Subiaco local government area. H ...

, situated next to

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between

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and

Subiaco Oval Subiaco Oval (; nicknamed Subi) was a sports stadium in Perth, Western Australia, located in the suburb of Subiaco. It was opened in 1908 and closed in 2017 after the completion of the new Perth Stadium in Burswood. Subiaco Oval was the high ...

. It originally comprised the land area which included Subiaco Oval and in the early 1900s housed tennis, croquet, bowls, cricket and football clubs.

History

The park is named after German-Australian botanist

Ferdinand von Mueller Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Vict ...

who described several hundred species of Australian flora and who participated in and promoted the exploration of Australia in the mid-nineteenth century. The Subiaco Municipal Council announced the name in July 1906. In December 1916 the park was renamed Kitchener Park in response to war-time sensitivities. Present day Roberts Road and

Winthrop Avenue Winthrop Avenue is a major north–south road in the Perth suburbs of Nedlands and Crawley. For most of its length, the road travels alongside the south-western edge of Kings Park, connecting Thomas Street with Stirling Highway, Mounts Bay ...

( Nedlands) were renamed from Mueller Road and Ferdinand Street respectively at the same time. The park currently comprises . In 1981 the park was renamed back to its original name when the two-tier stand redevelopment of Subiaco Oval was completed.

References

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