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- Belvedere Castle sits upon Vista Rock, the second highest natural elevation in Central Park, New York City. It was designed as an additional feature of the Central Park "Greensward" plan by Calvert Vaux and the sculptor Jacob Wrey Mould, when the team of Olmsted, Vaux and Mould were reappointed to oversee the park's construction once again in 1865. The Croton Aqueduct board transferred ownership of the site to the Park in 1867 and the existing fire tower was demolished. Belvedere Castle was built in 1869, using Manhattan schist from excavations elsewhere in the park, dressed with gray granite. The castle provided a feature—a folly—that capped the natural-looking woodlands of The Ramble, as seen from the formal Bethesda Terrace. As the plantings matured, the castle has disappeared from its original intended viewpoint. Balancing the mass of the main castle structure, Vaux's original design had called for a more weighty Manhattan schist and granite structure with a corner tower with conical cap, with the existing lookout over parapet walls between them. To reduce costs it was revised, before Olmsted and Vaux were dismissed a second time, in November 1870, and completed under the new Tammany Hall regime as an open painted wood pavilion. When it was built, the view from Belvedere Castle provided a vista over the rectangular receiving reservoir, which has been replaced by the Great Lawn, an oval of turf with eight baseball diamonds, loosely defined by plantings of trees in clumps in the manner of the English landscape garden, and, at the foot of Vista Rock, the Turtle Pond, redesigned in 1997 as a naturalistic planting, in which no single vantage-point reveals the water's full extent. Sunken concrete shelving at varying depths provide ideal water depths for shoreline plants such as lizard's tail, bullrush, turtlehead, and blueflag iris. The success of habitat for birds, insects, amphibians, and reptiles is embodied in sightings of species of dragon-fly not previously sighted in Central Park. The castle housed the New York Meteorological Observatory, which was taken over by the United States Weather Bureau in 1912. The current source of Central Park weather observations, an Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS), is just south of the castle. The two fanciful wooden pavilions deteriorated without painting and upkeep and were removed before 1900. Belvedere Castle, the object of much vandalism and deterioration, was closed to the public in the 1960s. It was restored and reopened by the Central Park Conservancy on May 1, 1983. In 1995, the Conservancy's Historic Preservation Crew replaced the painted wooden loggia of the castle, working from Vaux's designs, on the granite piers and walls that had survived. Belvedere Castle was used in exterior shots of the castle where Count von Count lived on Sesame Street.
- Belvedere Castle liegt auf der zweithöchsten Erhebung (Vista Rock) im Central Park in New York City und rund 250 m westlich des Metropolitan Museum of Art, zwischen der den Park durchquerenden 79. Straße und dem Turtle Pond. Nördlich des Schlosses, am gegenüberliegenden Ufer des Turtle Ponds liegt das Delacorte Theater, eine Freiluftbühne, an der im Sommer kostenlose Shakespeare-Aufführungen geboten werden. Es wurde von Calvert Vaux - einem der beiden Landschaftsplaner des Central Parks - entworfen und 1869 aus Schiefer erbaut, der beim Aushub für die Teiche bei der Gestaltung des Central Parks gewonnen wurde. Vom Belvedere Castle hat man den schönsten Ausblick auf den Central Park und die umgebenden Hochhäuser von Manhattan. Das Belvedere Castle beherbergt das Central Park Learning Center. In der "Discovery Chamber" wird ein Überblick über die Fauna des Parks geboten. Seit 1992 ist die Wetterstation (New York Meteorological Observatory) im Schloss untergebracht.
- Belvedere Castle és un edifici situat sobre Vista Rock, a Central Park, New York. La seva arquitectura reprodueix la d'un castell escocès. Els seus plànols van ser dibuixats al segle XIX per Calvert Vaux i l'escultor Jacob Wrey Mould. La seva construcció, en esquist de Manhattan, va començar el 1869. Avui, protegeix els locals de l'observatori meteorològic de New York (New York Meteorological Observatory), dirigit per la National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration d'ençà 1912.
- Belvedere Castle est un bâtiment de Central Park, sur l'île de Manhattan, à New York, Etats-Unis. Belvedere Castle est construit sur Vista Rock, le deuxième point le plus élevé du parc. Son architecture néogothique reproduit celle d'un château écossais. Ses plans furent dessinés au XIX siècle par Calvert Vaux et le sculpteur Jacob Wrey Mould. Sa construction, en schiste de Manhattan, débuta en 1869. Au moment de sa construction, le château donnait sur un réservoir d'eau qui a depuis été comblé. Aujourd'hui, il abrite les locaux de l'observatoire météorologique de New York (New York Meteorological Observatory), dirigé par la National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration depuis 1912.
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- Belvedere Castle sits upon Vista Rock, the second highest natural elevation in Central Park, New York City. It was designed as an additional feature of the Central Park "Greensward" plan by Calvert Vaux and the sculptor Jacob Wrey Mould, when the team of Olmsted, Vaux and Mould were reappointed to oversee the park's construction once again in 1865. The Croton Aqueduct board transferred ownership of the site to the Park in 1867 and the existing fire tower was demolished.
- Belvedere Castle liegt auf der zweithöchsten Erhebung (Vista Rock) im Central Park in New York City und rund 250 m westlich des Metropolitan Museum of Art, zwischen der den Park durchquerenden 79. Straße und dem Turtle Pond. Nördlich des Schlosses, am gegenüberliegenden Ufer des Turtle Ponds liegt das Delacorte Theater, eine Freiluftbühne, an der im Sommer kostenlose Shakespeare-Aufführungen geboten werden.
- Belvedere Castle és un edifici situat sobre Vista Rock, a Central Park, New York. La seva arquitectura reprodueix la d'un castell escocès. Els seus plànols van ser dibuixats al segle XIX per Calvert Vaux i l'escultor Jacob Wrey Mould. La seva construcció, en esquist de Manhattan, va començar el 1869. Avui, protegeix els locals de l'observatori meteorològic de New York (New York Meteorological Observatory), dirigit per la National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration d'ençà 1912.
- Belvedere Castle est un bâtiment de Central Park, sur l'île de Manhattan, à New York, Etats-Unis. Belvedere Castle est construit sur Vista Rock, le deuxième point le plus élevé du parc. Son architecture néogothique reproduit celle d'un château écossais. Ses plans furent dessinés au XIX siècle par Calvert Vaux et le sculpteur Jacob Wrey Mould. Sa construction, en schiste de Manhattan, débuta en 1869.
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