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Cal Anderson Park is a public park on
Lincoln Reservoir was begun in 1889, in response to the Great Seattle Fire of the same year, and was completed in 1901. A parcel just
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{{Protected areas of Seattle Parks in Seattle Capitol Hill, Seattle
Seattle
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, Washington's Capitol Hill
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that includes Lincoln Reservoir and Bobby Morris Playfield.
Features
The north end of the open park features ''Waterworks
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'', a large mountain-shaped water fountain feeding a shallow texture pool, a reflecting pool, and a wading pool. The south end features the lighted Bobby Morris Playfield. The wading pool operates in the summer months from 12 noon to 7 p.m.
Other features:
* Shelterhouse
* Plaza
* Children's play area
* Caged tennis courts
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with outdoor lights
* Basketball courts
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* Dodgeball court
History
Lincoln Reservoir was begun in 1889, in response to the Great Seattle Fire of the same year, and was completed in 1901. A parcel just south
South is one of the cardinal directions or Points of the compass, compass points. The direction is the opposite of north and is perpendicular to both east and west.
Etymology
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of it was named Lincoln Park the same year. The famed Olmsted Brothers designed the park, as part of their many works in the Seattle
Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest regio ...
area. In 1908 it was developed as a playfield, and in 1922 its name was changed to Broadway Playfield so as not to duplicate the name of the new Lincoln Park
Lincoln Park is a park along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. Named after US President Abraham Lincoln, it is the city's largest public park and stretches for seven miles (11 km) from Grand Avenue (500 N), on the south, ...
in West Seattle
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. The playfield was named after Bobby Morris, former King County, Washington
King County is located in the U.S. state of Washington. The population was 2,269,675 in the 2020 census, making it the most populous county in Washington, and the 13th-most populous in the United States. The county seat is Seattle, also the st ...
auditor, in 1980. Meanwhile, the area around the reservoir had come to be known as Lincoln Reservoir Park.
On April 10, 2003, the entire area was designated ''Cal Anderson Park'', after Washington's first openly gay state legislator. Anderson had died in 1995 of AIDS
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.
From 2003–2005, the reservoir was rebuilt as a covered basin.
Three security cameras
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were installed in the park in April 2008 in an effort to combat certain types of criminal activity, namely vandalism
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The term includes property damage, such as graffiti and defacement directed towards any property without permission of the owner. The term f ...
, drug dealing
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, and public sex
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.
In 2004, World Naked Bike Ride Seattle established a tradition of stopping briefly in the park, usually in the midsection near the shelter house and water feature. Body Pride ride also began making stops in 2005.
In 2009, Forbes
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magazine recognized Cal Anderson Park as one of the 12 Best City Parks in the U.S.
The Seattle March for Science took place at the park on April 22, 2017.
On June 8, 2020, protesters
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Protests can be thought of as acts of coopera ...
occupied the park and declared it part of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ). The area was renamed the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP) several days later.
On June 20, 2020, a shooting took place in the park, which served as a gathering area in the CHOP at the time. A 19-year-old man was fatally shot, and a 33-year-old man was critically injured. The incident was cited by opponents of the zone as a justification to disband it, using either the National Guard or the Seattle Police Department.
Light rail station
The northwest corner of Cal Anderson Park (at the corner of East Denny Way and Nagle Place) contains an entrance to the underground Capitol Hill Station of Sound Transit'sLink light rail
Link light rail is a light rail rapid transit system serving the Seattle metropolitan area in the U.S. state of Washington. It is managed by Sound Transit in partnership with local transit providers, and consists of two non-connected lines: t ...
.
References
External links
Cal Anderson Park
{{Protected areas of Seattle Parks in Seattle Capitol Hill, Seattle