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Washington Park Lake is a body of water in Albany, New York located inside Washington Park.[disambiguation needed] It has a surface area of 5.2 acres and a mean depth of 7 feet. To the west of the lake is Elberon Place, a street that skews off the street grid of the Pine Hills neighborhood. The street marks the path of a stream that once flowed into the lake. Next to the lake is the Washington Park Lakehouse and an amphitheater where the Park Playhouse performs musicals in the summer. A wrought-iron pedestrian bridge spans the lake at its narrowest point. Washington Park was inspired in the late nineteenth century by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, the architects of Manhattan's Central Park.
