9/10. The Prospect Park Refectory and Additional Park Archways
The grandest of Vaux’s unbuilt structures was the Refectory, a restaurant Colley says would have been a “major focal point” of the park. Colley writes that “this restaurant was designed to be approached from the Concert Grove and Lookout Hill and had terraces cascading down to the Lake to provide additional access for boaters and skaters.”
In addition to the Refectory, the observation tower and the carriage concourse, additional archways were also removed from the plan for Prospect Park.
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