A white terracotta boathouse on the lake, its loggia hung with the census, rowboats drifting under the bridge.
The Boathouse on the Lullwater opened in 1905, designed by Helmle, Huberty and Hudswell in white terracotta, after the Library of Sannazaro in Venice. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux laid out Prospect Park itself in 1867 and called it their best work. The Boathouse was saved from demolition in the 1960s and since 2002 has housed the Audubon Center.
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The Beaux Arts loggia of five arches with a balustraded roof, the terrace over the water, the arched Lullwater bridge, rowboats and swans, the tree line closing the lake. Mood: late summer. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.