Belvedere Castle
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Belvedere Castle is a folly in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City. It contains exhibit rooms, an observation deck, and since 1919 has housed Central Park’s official weather station.
Belvedere Castle and Turtle Pond, Central Park, Manhattan, New York
The tower in February 2005; note the anemometer and wind vane on the top; these instruments record the official wind speed and direction for Central Park
The remainder of the current weather station for Central Park is located in the wooded area immediately south of the castle, protected by a chain link fence topped with barbed wire
Mould's bronze cockatrice, part of a transom over a doorway of the Castle in 2004
Great Lawn and Turtle Pond
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The Great Lawn and Turtle Pond are two connected features of Central Park in Manhattan, New York City, United States. The lawn and pond are located on the site of a former reservoir for the Croton Aqu
Belvedere Castle
…of the New York City Subway's IND Eighth Avenue Line (now carrying the A, B, C, and D trains) in the 1930s. Today, the eastern elevation overlooks the Great Lawn and Turtle Pond, which occupies the former site of the receiving reservoir. The castle was designed by the architects Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould as an additional…
Delacorte Theater, Turtle Pond, and the Great Lawn, from Belvedere Castle
The Great Lawn
Reflections in the water at Turtle Pond
Snowy egret in Turtle Pond