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Belvedere Castle is a folly in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City. It contains exhibit rooms, an observation deck , and since 1919 has housed Central Park’s official weather station. Belvedere Castle was designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould in 1867. [ 1 ]
Fort Belvedere (originally Shrubs Hill Tower) is a Grade II* listed country house on Shrubs Hill in Windsor Great Park, in Surrey, England. [1] The fort was predominantly constructed by Jeffry Wyatville in a Gothic Revival style in the 1820s.
The Belvedere is a historic building complex in Vienna, Austria consisting of two Baroque palaces (the Upper and Lower Belvedere), the Orangery, and the Palace Stables. The buildings are set in a Baroque park landscape in the third district of the city, on the south-eastern edge of its centre.
A belvedere / ˈ b ɛ l v ɪ d ɪər / or belvidere (from Italian for "beautiful view") is an architectural structure sited to take advantage of a fine or scenic view. [1] The term has been used both for rooms in the upper part of a building or structures on the roof, or a separate pavilion in a garden or park.
Belvedere seen from the garden in winter. The Baroque palace Schloss Belvedere on the outskirts of Weimar, [1] is a pleasure-house (Lustschloss) built for house-parties, built in 1724–1732 to designs of Johann August Richter and Gottfried Heinrich Krohne for Ernst August, Duke of Saxe-Weimar. The corps de logis is flanked by symmetrical ...
Belvedere House and Gardens is a country house located approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) from Mullingar, County Westmeath in Ireland on the north-east shore of Lough Ennell. [1] It was built in 1740 as a hunting lodge for Robert Rochfort, 1st Earl of Belvedere by architect Richard Cassels , one of Ireland's foremost Palladian architects.
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From this so-called "prospect-house", or belvedere, he and his guests could admire the views of the Surrey countryside as they took refreshments and played hazard, a popular dice game. In the clear eighteenth-century air it was apparently possible to see Windsor Castle and St Paul's Cathedral. The Earl of Clare named his country seat Clare ...