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Giraffe, Central Park.
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.