Cal Anderson Park

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Cal Anderson Park
May 13, 2006
Type	public park
Location	Capitol Hill, Seattle, Washington
Coordinates	47°37′01″N 122°19′08″W / 47.617, -122.319Coordinates: 47°37′01″N 122°19′08″W / 47.617, -122.319
Size	7.37 acres^[1]
Opened	2005-09-24
Operated by	Seattle Parks and Recreation
Status	open all year

Cal Anderson Park is a public park on Seattle, Washington's Capitol Hill that includes Lincoln Reservoir and Bobby Morris Playfield.

1 Features
2 History
3 Link Light Rail Capitol Hill Station
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Features

The north end of the open park features 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

[edit] History

Baseball at Lincoln Park circa 1919. The open-air Lincoln Reservoir is visible in the near background. The building at left still exists today, as does the German United Church of Christ at right. The water tower on the horizon is in Volunteer Park.

Lincoln Reservoir was begun in 1889 and completed in 1901. A parcel just south of it was named Lincoln Park the same year. 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 in West Seattle. The playfield was named after Bobby Morris, former King County, Washington 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.

Rebuilding of the reservoir to convert it from open-air to covered started in April 2003 and lasted through summer 2005.

Three security cameras were installed in the park in April 2008 in an effort to combat certain types of criminal activity, namely vandalism, drug dealing, and public sex.^[2]

[edit] Link Light Rail Capitol Hill Station

The north west corner of Cal Anderson Park (at the corner of East Denny Way and Nagle Place) is designated to contain an entrance to the underground Capitol Hill Station of Sound Transit's Link Light Rail. ^[3]