Conservatory Water
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Conservatory Water is a pond located in a natural hollow within Central Park in Manhattan, New York City. It is located west of Fifth Avenue, centered opposite East 74th Street. The pond is surrounded by several landscaped hills, including Pilgrim Hill dotted by groves of Yoshino cherry trees and Pug Hill. These plantings were intended to match the flora around the mansions that once lined the adjacent stretch of Fifth Avenue.
Conservatory Water is named for a glass-house for tropical plants and was intended to be entered from Fifth Avenue by a grand stair. The shore of Conservatory Water contains the Kerbs Memorial Boathouse, where patrons can rent and navigate radio-controlled model boats, as well as bronze sculptures.
The water was supplied from the Ramble and Lake, the site of the historic Sawkill stream, which once flowed through here on its way to the East River. When Central Park was built in the mid-19th century, hardy water lilies were naturalized in the bottom mud and tender ones were wintered over in the park's conservatory. Later, the naturalistic water lily pond was reshaped as a model boat pond.
History
Conservatory Water is named for another estate-garden feature, a glass-house for tropical plants, to be entered from Fifth Avenue by a grand stair.{{cite book|last=Rogers|first=Elizabeth|title=Rebuilding Central Park: a management and restoration plan|publisher=MIT Press | location=Cambridge, Mass|year=1987|isbn=978-0-262-18127-3|oclc=14586688|page=124}} The garden had been proposed in the Greensward Plan of 1857, during a design competition for Central Park where the Greensward Plan ultimately won out. Several other proposals submitted during the competition did not include a formal garden. The two principal designers of the Greensward Plan, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, instead suggested building a conservatory on the site of the proposed formal garden, with a "hard-edged" reflecting pool in the middle. Only the reflecting pool was constructed, though.{{cite book|title=Central Park: an American masterpiece|last=Miller|first=Sara|publisher=Harry N. Abrams Publishers in association with the Central Park Conservancy|year=2003|isbn=978-0-8109-3946-2|location=New York|oclc=50773395|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/centralparkameri0000mill}}{{Rp|146}}
A naturalistic pond displaying water lilies was excavated. The steep bank towards Fifth Avenue was densely planted with shrubs and trees, including birch—for quick cover—and copper beech. Samuel Parsons, Calvert Vaux's assistant and partner, who was named Superintendent of Plantings, described the effect in his Landscape Gardening (1891):
The general shape of this pond was oval, with winding, irregular shores, bounded by a high bank on the east side and a great willow drooping over the north end. Rocks were disposed in the immediate banks, so as to suggest a natural formation, rather than an artificial pond. The bottom, scarcely three feet deep, was cemented tight as a cup, and the water flowed gently in at one end, and out at the other, and so through a basin and into the sewer. Eighteen inches of soil was made rich with manure and deposited over the bottom.{{cite book|last=Parsons|first=Samuel|title=Landscape Gardening: Notes and Suggestions on Lawns and Lawn Planting--laying Out and Arrangement of Country Places, Large and Small Parks, Cemetery Plots, and Railway-station Lawns--deciduous and Evergreen Trees and Shrubs--the Hardy Border-bedding|publisher=Hansebooks|year=2017 |orig-year=1891|isbn=978-3-337-22434-9|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d2sitAEACAAJ | access-date=August 16, 2020|page=251}}
The water was supplied from the Ramble and Lake, the site of the historic Sawkill stream, which once flowed through here on its way to the East River. G. E. Hill and G. E. Waring Jr, "Old wells and watercourses on the isle of Manhattan, part I" in M. W. Goodwin et al., eds., 1897. Historic New York: Being the First Series of the Half Moon Papers, quoted in {{cite book|last=Sanderson|first=Eric|title=Mannahatta: a natural history of New York City|publisher=Abrams | location=New York London|year=2013|isbn=978-1-61312-573-1|oclc=897840866|page=254}} Hardy water lilies, both European and American, were naturalized in the bottom mud and tender ones, planted in boxes, were wintered over in the park's conservatory, now the site of Conservatory Garden.
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Since the 1860s, children had sailed their model yachts at the pond. Later, the naturalistic water lily pond was reshaped as a model boat pond loosely based on that of one in the Jardin du Luxembourg, in Paris.Kadinsky, Sergey (2016). [https://books.google.com/books?id=Czw1CgAAQBAJ&dq=%22conservatory+water%22+jardin+paris&pg=PT41 Hidden Waters of New York City: A History and Guide to 101 Forgotten Lakes, Ponds, Creeks, and Streams in the Five Boroughs]Dorling Kindersley (2012). [https://books.google.com/books?id=RsYvQ82MmXcC&dq=%22conservatory+water%22+jardin+paris&pg=PT335 Eyewitness Travel Family Guide New York City]
The formally shaped shallow basin is set in a molded curb of "Atlantic Blue" granite, which replaced a concrete curb in 2000.{{Cite web|url=http://www.tlc-mag.com/archive/pre_2013_site/central_park_p4_june06.html|title=CENTRAL PARK: 150 YEARS OF PARK HISTORY|website=Taxi Limousine Coach Magazine|date=June 2006}}{{cite web|title=CPC History: 1998-2002|website=centralparknyc.org|date=October 11, 2006|url=http://www.centralparknyc.org/aboutcpc/cpc-history/cpchistory1998-2002| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061011093601/http://www.centralparknyc.org/aboutcpc/cpc-history/cpchistory1998-2002 | archive-date=October 11, 2006 |url-status=dead | access-date=August 16, 2020}} It is home water to a flotilla of model sailboats.{{Rp|146}} The model sailboats were made familiar in the pages of E.B. White's children's realistic fantasy novel Stuart Little (1945) about a mouse-like human boy who sailed his ship on Conservatory Water. The novel was recreated in the popular family animated/live-action comedy 1999 film of the same name.{{Rp|146}} Model boat rentals were unavailable from 2020 to 2023 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.{{cite web | last=Kumamoto | first=Ian | title=You can finally float a miniature boat in Central Park again! | website=Time Out New York | date=May 6, 2024 | url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/you-can-finally-float-a-miniature-boat-in-central-park-again-050624 | access-date=May 7, 2024}}{{cite web | last=Barron | first=James | title=Model-Boat Sailing Returns to Central Park | website=The New York Times | date=May 1, 2024 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/01/nyregion/model-boat-sailing-central-park.html | access-date=May 7, 2024}}
Boathouse
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The eastern shore of Conservatory Water contains the Kerbs Memorial Boathouse, designed by architect Aymar Embury II, where patrons can rent and navigate radio-controlled and wind-powered model boats.{{cite New York 1960|page=764}}{{cite web|url=http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/conservatory-water.html|title=Conservatory Water|website=The Official Website of Central Park NYC|publisher=Central Park Conservancy|access-date=April 16, 2019|archive-date=April 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416215620/http://www.centralparknyc.org/things-to-see-and-do/attractions/conservatory-water.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/central-park/monuments/860|title=Jeanne E. Kerbs: NYC Parks|date=June 26, 1939|website=Central Park Monuments|access-date=April 16, 2019}} The 1954 boathouse, in picnic Georgian taste with red brick and a green copper hip roof and steeple, outside of which is a flagstone patio,{{Cite web|url=https://www.centralparknyc.org/attractions/kerbs-boathouse|title=Kerbs Boathouse|date=November 5, 2018|website=Central Park Conservancy}}{{cite book | last=Berenson | first=Richard L. | title=Barnes & Noble Complete Illustrated Map and Guidebook to Central Park | publisher=Produced for Silver Lining Books by Berenson Design & Books | year=1999 | isbn=978-0-7607-1660-1 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UwHsWKrp2RMC&pg=PA55 | page=55 | oclc=54885164}} houses resident model sailboats as well as the radio-controlled model yachts of the Central Park Model Yacht Club.
Surroundings
The waters of Conservatory Water shelter a seasonal population of unusual minute freshwater jellyfish, Craspedacusta sowerbyi. In the sculptured Beaux-Arts pediment of an upper-floor window of 927 Fifth Avenue, overlooking Conservatory Water, the red-tailed hawk named "Pale Male" set up a nest, under the binocular watch of the Park's numerous bird-watchers.
=Pilgrim Hill=
File:Pilgrim Hill in Central Park, NYC. Flowering Yoshino cherry trees.jpgs on Pilgrim Hill]]
Pilgrim Hill lies to the southwest of Conservatory Water, just inside the park entrance at 5th Avenue and on the north side of 72nd Street.{{cite book|author=General Society of Mayflower Descendants|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJQjAQAAMAAJ|title=The Mayflower Quarterly|publisher=General Society of Mayflower Descendants|year=2005|volume=71|access-date=August 16, 2020|issue=v. 71}}{{cite web|date=July 28, 2020|title=Pilgrim Hill|url=https://www.centralparknyc.org/attractions/pilgrim-hill|access-date=August 16, 2020|website=Central Park Conservancy}}{{Cite web|last=Walsh|first=Kevin|date=January 8, 2020|title=PILGRIM HILL, Central Park|url=https://forgotten-ny.com/2020/01/pilgrim-hill-central-park/|access-date=August 16, 2020|website=Forgotten New York|language=en-US}} Its slopes are popular among locals for sledding in the winter when Central Park receives 6 inches of snow, for groves of pale flowering Yoshino cherry trees as they burst into bloom in the spring, and for picnics and lounging in warmer months. The slopes are dotted by Prunus serrulata and other specimen trees, notably a globose European Hornbeam and nine species of oak, all set in rolling lawn.
They are surveyed by artist John Quincy Adams Ward's bronze statue of The Pilgrim, a {{convert|9|ft|m}} tall stylized representation of one of the Pilgrims, British immigrants to the New World led by William Bradford who left from Plymouth, England, in the cargo ship Mayflower in September 1620.{{cite web|title=Pilgrim: NYC Parks|website=Central Park Monuments|date=June 26, 1939|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/central-park/monuments/1184 | access-date=August 16, 2020}} The statue faces westward on the crest of a little knoll at the top of the hill, on a rusticated Quincy granite pedestal that was created by architect Richard Morris Hunt and contains four bas-reliefs (depicting the ship the Mayflower, Bible and Sword, Cross-Bow and Arrows, and Commerce), overlooking the East Drive at East 72nd Street.{{Cite web|date=April 3, 2019|title=Pilgrim Hill|url=https://www.centralpark.com/api/content/802b5c3f-7977-5166-ad0a-fdb674e75ed2/|access-date=August 16, 2020|website=www.centralpark.com|language=en-us}}{{cite book|last1=Carroll|first1=R.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xKjS342df7YC&pg=PA57|title=The Complete Illustrated Map and Guidebook to Central Park|last2=Berenson|first2=R.J.|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Incorporated|year=2008|isbn=978-1-4027-5833-1|page=57|access-date=August 16, 2020}} The statue was donated to New York City in 1885 by the New England Society of New York.{{Cite book|last=Miller|first=Sara Cedar|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=30SpDwAAQBAJ&q=%22pilgrim+hill%22+%22central+park%22&pg=PT232|title=Seeing Central Park: The Official Guide Updated and Expanded|date= 2020|publisher=Abrams|isbn=978-1-68335-879-4|language=en}}
= Pug Hill =
Pug Hill is located to the northwest of the Alice and Wonderland statue and was a popular place for the city's pug owners to socialize in the late 1990s through the mid-2000s.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/06/01/nyregion/while-the-pugs-eat-the-caviar-owners-bond.html|title=While the Pugs Eat the Caviar, Owners Bond|last=Yazigi|first=Monique P.|date=June 1, 1997|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 26, 2017|issn=0362-4331}} At times, there were so many pugs present that they were described as a fawn and black whirlpool moving through the grass.{{Cite web|url=https://nymag.com/nymetro/urban/pets_animals/features/3249/|title=Pets: Every Dog Has Its Day|website=New York Magazine|first=Ethan|last=Brown|date=May 29, 2000|access-date=April 26, 2017}} However, Pug Hill gatherings were ended due to heavy NYC Parks enforcement.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/07/nyregion/thecity/07dogs.html|title=When the Smoking Gun Looks a Lot Like a Leash|last=Smerd|first=Jeremy|date=May 7, 2006|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 26, 2017|issn=0362-4331}} In 2006, Pug Hill was the inspiration for an eponymous book.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uUnkblFLTWUC|title=Pug Hill|last=Pace|first=Alison|date=2006|publisher=Penguin|isbn=0425209717|location=New York, NY}}
=''Alice in Wonderland'' sculpture=
File:Alicia en el país de las maravillas (4437889709).jpg, 1959]]
Bronze sculptural groups set in small terraces front the Conservatory Water. One to the north, parallel with East 74th Street, commemorates Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice in Wonderland, with an {{convert|11|ft|m}} tall Alice (whose face is modeled on that of the sculptor's daughter) sitting on a large mushroom at a tea party held by the Mad Hatter (whose face is supposedly modeled on that of George Delacorte) with the March Hare, the White Rabbit, the Dormouse, the Cheshire Cat, the Caterpillar, and Alice's kitten Dinah in her lap.{{Cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/274340/the-unsung-female-muses-of-new-yorks-public-sculpture/|title=The Unsung Female Muses of New York's Public Sculpture|first=Allison|last=Meier|date=February 15, 2016|website=Hyperallergic}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/alice-in-wonderland-statue|title=Alice in Wonderland Statue in Central Park|website=Atlas Obscura}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/10-great-outdoor-sculptures-in-nyc-you-can-visit-on-a-socially-distanced-stroll-032020|title=10 great outdoor sculptures in NYC you can visit on a socially-distanced stroll|website=Time Out New York|first=Howard|last= Halle |date=March 20, 2020}} It was created in 1959 by sculptor José de Creeft, patterned on illustrations drawn by John Tenniel, commissioned by philanthropist George Delacorte in honor of his wife, and forged in the Modern Art Foundry in Queens, New York. It is favored by children who enjoy climbing on it, which was contemplated in its design. At the base of the statue, among other inscriptions, is a line from Lewis Carroll's 1871 nonsense poem "Jabberwocky".{{Cite web|url=https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/the-16-best-public-art-pieces-in-nyc|title=The 16 Best Public Art Pieces In NYC|date=April 16, 2015|website=Gothamist|first=Rebecca|last=Fishbein}}
=''Hans Christian Andersen'' sculpture=
Another sculptural group, to the west of the Conservatory Water, commemorates Danish fable author Hans Christian Andersen and the Ugly Duckling (1955), sculpted by Georg John Lober.{{Cite web|last=Landphair|first=Ted|date=July 12, 2011|url=https://blogs.voanews.com/tedlandphairsamerica/2011/07/12/most-unusual-and-surrealistic-central-park/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717132207/http://blogs.voanews.com/tedlandphairsamerica/2011/07/12/most-unusual-and-surrealistic-central-park/|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 17, 2011|title='Most Unusual and Surrealistic' Central Park|website=Voice of America}}Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow (2018). [https://books.google.com/books?id=3ugxDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Alice+in+Wonderland%22+%22central+park%22+bronze&pg=PT173 Saving Central Park; A History and a Memoir]{{Cite web|url=https://centralpark.org/alice-in-wonderland/|title=Alice in Wonderland - Central Park Conservancy & Gardens|website=centralpark.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.centralpark.com/api/content/60e2fe34-e6c0-53bc-8761-06458648f021/|title=Alice in Wonderland|date=April 12, 2019|website=www.centralpark.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.centralparknyc.org/attractions/alice-in-wonderland|title=Alice in Wonderland|date=January 28, 2019|website=Central Park Conservancy}}{{cite book |title=New York |publisher=E. Benn |series=Blue guide | year=1983 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gB1OAQAAIAAJ&q=kerbs+boathouse+1954 |access-date=August 17, 2020 }} A larger-than-life-size {{convert|9|ft|6|in|m}} Anderson sits on a Stony Creek polished pink granite bench with an open book on his lap, turned to the story of "The Ugly Duckling," with a {{convert|2|ft|m}}-tall bronze duck at his feet.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/central-park/monuments/36|title=Central Park Monuments - Hans Christian Andersen : NYC Parks|website=www.nycgovparks.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/landmark-princess/|title=Landmark Princess|first=Chantel|last=Tattoli|date=August 3, 2015|website=Los Angeles Review of Books}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.thrillist.com/lifestyle/new-york/things-to-do-in-central-park-nyc|title=The 16 Best Things to Do in Central Park|first=Patty|last=Lee|date=July 3, 2017|website=Thrillist}} In the palm of Andersen's left hand, the sculptor inscribed: "In appreciation of the help and encouragement my wife Nellie has always given me affectionately, Georg, 1956."{{Cite web|url=https://www.centralparknyc.org/attractions/hans-christian-andersen|title=Hans Christian Andersen|date=January 28, 2019|website=Central Park Conservancy}} The statue is meant to be climbed on.{{Cite web|url=https://www.centralpark.com/api/content/634c3054-c637-5d91-a261-d5eb386d469f/|title=Hans Christian Andersen|date=January 11, 2018|website=www.centralpark.com}} The sculpture was cast in the Modern Art Foundry.
These sculptures were built by NYC Parks commissioner Robert Moses in the 1950s as part of the park's "Children's District". Another statue, that of the fictional Mary Poppins, was not constructed.{{Rp|146}}
=Waldo Hutchins bench=
Discreetly sited overlooking Conservatory Water, just inside Central Park north-west of the park's East 72nd Street and Fifth Avenue entrance, and east of Pilgrim Hill, is a curved Concord white granite exedra (a design from ancient Greece and Rome) outdoor bench.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xKjS342df7YC&q=Waldo+Hutchins+bench+park&pg=PA17|title=The Complete Illustrated Map and Guidebook to Central Park|first=Raymond|last=Carroll|date=May 20, 2008|publisher=Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.|isbn=9781402758331|via=Google Books}}Reed, Henry Hope; Duckworth, Sophia (1972). [https://books.google.com/books?id=N5V4AAAAMAAJ&q=Waldo+Hutchins+bench+park Central Park; a History and a Guide]Kannapell, Andrea (1999).[https://books.google.com/books?id=LdApAQAAMAAJ&q=Waldo+Hutchins+bench The Curious New Yorker; 329 Fascinating Questions and Surprising Answers about New York City].Zaman, Natalie (2016). [https://books.google.com/books?id=2fEJDQAAQBAJ&dq=Waldo+Hutchins+bench&pg=PT160 Magical Destinations of the Northeast; Sacred Sites, Occult Oddities & Magical Monuments]Macaulay-Lewis, Elizabeth; McGowan, Matthew (2018). [https://books.google.com/books?id=fouUDwAAQBAJ&dq=Waldo+Hutchins+bench&pg=PT285 Classical New York; Discovering Greece and Rome in Gotham].{{Cite web|url=https://www.centralparkinbronze.com/waldo-hutchins-bench|title=Waldo Hutchins Memorial Bench|Piccirilli Brothers|Whispering Bench|website=centralparkinbronze|access-date=August 20, 2020|archive-date=May 29, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529194311/https://www.centralparkinbronze.com/waldo-hutchins-bench|url-status=usurped}} It commemorates Waldo Hutchins (1822–1891), a member of the original Board of Commissioners for Central Park, New York City Park Commissioner (1857–1869 and 1887–1891), and a three-term Representative to the U.S. Congress (1879–1885).{{Cite web|url=https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/central-park/monuments/761|title=Central Park Monuments - Waldo Hutchins: NYC Parks|website=www.nycgovparks.org}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.centralparknyc.org/attractions/waldo-hutchins-bench|title=Waldo Hutchins Bench|date=February 1, 2019|website=Central Park Conservancy}}
The bench is almost {{convert|4|ft|m}} tall by {{convert|27|ft|m}} long, and weighs several tons.
[https://www.bordersundials.co.uk/waldo-hutchins-bench-sundial-new-york-usa/ Waldo Hutchins Bench Sundial, New York, USA], October 6, 2016. The cost of the bench was $15,000 (${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|15000|1932|r=-4}}}} in current dollar terms).{{Cite web|url=https://daytoninmanhattan.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-waldo-m-hutchins-bench-central-park.html|title=Daytonian in Manhattan: The Waldo M. Hutchins Bench - Central Park|first=Tom|last=Miller|date=October 25, 2018}} Its architect was Eric Gugler, and in 1932 it was executed by the Piccirilli Brothers studio, the firm that carved the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
The bench has a small sundial, a variation on a 3rd century BC Hellenistic period Berossus sundial, at its back designed by sculptor Albert Stewart.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N0lv5vXlK-0C&q=Waldo+Hutchins+bench&pg=PT26|title=Wolves and Honey: A Hidden History of the Natural World|first=Susan Brind|last=Morrow|date= 2006|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt|isbn=0618619208|via=Google Books}} The sundial features a small Art Deco bronze gnomon sculpture of a female dancer trailed by a wind-blown gown and flowing scarves at its center. The gnomon sculpture was crafted by sculptor Paul Manship, who created the 18-foot (5.5 m)-tall bronze gilded Prometheus statue at Rockefeller Center.Hargittai, István; Hargittai, Magdolna (2017). [https://books.google.com/books?id=sT5uDQAAQBAJ&dq=waldo+hutchins+bench+central+park&pg=PA274 New York Scientific; A Culture of Inquiry, Knowledge, and Learning]
Incised in the bench and paving three semicircular arced lines match the bench shelf’s shadow lines at 10:00 a.m., noon, and 2:00 p.m. at the vernal and autumnal equinoxes--though today daylight saving time has thrown the times off by one hour in the spring.{{Cite web|url=https://sundials.org/index.php/component/sundials/onedial/614|title=NASS|website=sundials.org}} There are two Latin inscriptions etched into the back of the bench: vivas oportet si vis tibi vivere ("One must live for another, if he wishes to live for himself"; a quotation of the Roman philosopher Seneca the Younger); and the sundial reads ne diruatur fuga temporum ("Let it not be destroyed by the passage of time"). If two people sit at opposite ends of the bench and speak softly into it, they can hear each other easily. On the backside to the west, Pilgrim Hill overlooks the bench and Conservatory Water.
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20070408130224/http://www.centralparknyc.org/virtualpark/thegreatlawn/conservatorywater Central Park Conservancy: Conservatory Water]
- [http://www.infoplease.com/biography/us/congress/hutchins-waldo.html Hutchins, Waldo]
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