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