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The Great Lawn and Turtle Pond are two connected features of Central Park which are located in Manhattan, New York City. ==Description== The lawn and pond occupy the almost flat site of the rectangular, thirty-five-acre Lower Reservoir〔The Upper Reservoir, which now commemorates Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, remains a designed feature of Central Park, in a flowing shape ringed with a jogging track. Its schist-and-granite pump houses were designed by George S. Greene.〕 constructed in 1842, which was an unalterable fixture of the location of Central Park as it was first designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. The ''King Jagiello Monument'' stands at Turtle Pond's east end, the Delacorte Theater on its west end. Within its schist walling, the reservoir filled the space between the 79th Street and 86th Street Transverse Roads. The Belvedere Castle, built in 1869, overlooked it from its southwest corner. In Egbert Viele's rejected plan for Central Park, whose design inadequacies prompted the design competition of 1857-58, the civil engineer "considered the reservoir worthy of attention as a major engineering feat, and his plan emphasized it by adding a terrace to the walls, from which spectators could observe military drills". Proponents of the naturalistic plans in the competition "repeatedly recommended 'planting out' the park boundaries and the 'ugly', 'artificial', 'uncouth', 'horrid', and 'discordant' distraction of the reservoirs in order to reinforce the sense of natural expanse". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Great Lawn and Turtle Pond」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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