Hurricane House was sold off around 1909 shortly before the King's death. These subsequently became the site of the Royal Thai Embassy at 370 Orchard Road. Two further pieces of adjoining property fronting onto Orchard Road were purchased in 1897. Early in the 1890s, King Chulalongkorn, the then King of Siam, acquired "Hurricane House" in the vicinity of Orchard Road through Tan Kim Ching, the Thai Consul in Singapore. In the 1860s, Orchard Road had a great number of private houses and bungalows on hills looking down through the valley where the road passed through.
Later a Jewish cemetery was established it was located where Dhoby Ghaut MRT station is now and was demolished in 1984. By 1846, the Chinese had a large graveyard around what is now the Meritus Mandarin Hotel and Ngee Ann City, while the Sumatrans from Bencoolen had their burial ground where the current Hotel Grand Central stands. Towards the later part of the 1840s, graveyards began to appear along the road. He had a garden and plantation at the corner of what is now Scotts Road and Orchard Road. Jun tending his garden, which helped endorse the road's name. One major sight during this period was a Dr. There were none on the left side and only three or four houses went past Tank Road on the right side of Orchard Road. Later, nutmeg plantations and fruit orchards predominated, hence its name.īy 1846, the spread of houses had reached up to Tank Road. In the 1830s the Orchard Road area was the scene of gambier and pepper plantations. Orchard Road was already cut in the 1830s, though the new road was not named in George Coleman's 1836 Map of Singapore. History Orchard Road in 1900 ION Orchard British administration The numbers begin at Handy Road and end at Orange Grove Road. It has an extensive underground infrastructure, including underground pedestrian walkways between the malls running underneath the street and other streets in the vicinity. It then stretches southeast across the Scotts Road–Paterson Hill junction, Orchard MRT station, Bideford Road, Somerset MRT station, Central Expressway, Dhoby Ghaut MRT station, and ends at the junction with Handy Road (just before Prinsep Street), where it becomes Bras Basah Road. The ever-lively street starts at the junction with Orange Grove Road which is the location of the Orchard Hotel. and entirely in 1977 when Orchard Boulevard was completed. Geography Īfter more than a century as a two-way thoroughfare, Orchard Road became a one-way street east of Scotts Road in 1974. ' Tanglin Market Street'), and in Tamil, it was known as "Vairakimadam" (Tamil: வயிராகி மடம், romanized: Vayirāki maṭam, lit.'Fakir's place') inside town limits and "Māttu Than" ( Tamil: மேட்டு தான், romanized: Mēṭṭu tāṉ, lit.'High Ground') from Koek's Market to Upper Tanglin. Previously, it was known in Hokkien as "Tang Leng Pa Sat Koi" ( simplified Chinese: 东陵巴刹街 traditional Chinese: 東陵巴剎街 Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Tang-lêng Pa-sat-koe lit. Such plantations were common in the area in the 19th century. Orchard Road got its name from the nutmeg, pepper and fruit orchards or the plantations that the road once led to. Orchard is bordered by Newton in the east and north, Tanglin in the west, River Valley in the south and Museum to the southeast. It is part of the Central Area located within the Central Region. The Orchard Planning Area is a planning area as specified by the Urban Redevelopment Authority. A famous tourist attraction, it is an upscale shopping area, with numerous internationally renowned department stores, restaurants and coffeehouses located in its vicinity. Orchard Road, often known colloquially as simply Orchard, is a major 2.5 km (1.6 mi)–long road in the Central Area of Singapore.
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