Rockefeller’s Italian Fountain Postcard

The Bronx Zoo was founded in 1895 as New York’s zoological park and Rockefeller’s Italian Fountain has always been part of the zoo’s historic core. This 1986 aerial view depicts the fountain in its current location in a circular plaza north of the historic Bear Court. Bear Court is now known as Astor Court for anyone familiar with the Bronx Zoo. Bear Court was designed by New York architects Heinz and LaFarge as the centerpiece of the new zoological park. The court originally consisted of five detached brick and limestone neoclassical animal houses and a central sea lion pool on a raised and landscaped terrace which you can see here. Fleetphoto