BELEVEDERE CASTLE is a Victorian castle in Central Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, who also designed the magnificent park.
It is now the Henry Luce Nature Observatory and a weather station.From the castle there is a panoramic view of the Park’s Great Lawn, Turtle Pond, and the outdoor theater, the Delacorte, where free productions of Shakespeare in the Park are performed each summer.The Delacorte was a gift from George T. Delacorte, publisher of Dell paperback books.
The Belevedere Castle (bottom) with snow and the San Remo apartments on the West Side of Manhattan in the background.