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Central Park Garden, New York.
Central Park Boat House, No. 60. This view is from the John Meigs Collection, Washington DC. Meigs purchased these views in the 1860s and annotated his purchase: “Bo’t N.Y. City-Sep. 2, 1865-25 cts.”
The Castle, Central Park. Belvedere Castle was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1867–1869. An architectural hybrid of Gothic and Romanesque styles, Vaux’s design called for a Manhattan schist and granite structure with a corner tower with conical cap, with the existing lookout over parapet walls between them.[1] Its name comes from belvedere, which means “beautiful view” in Italian.