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  • The restaurant, originally known as The Sheepfold in Central Park and constructed in the latter half of the century, is one of the City's finest examples of Victorian Gothic architecture and one of the Park's most treasured landmarked buildings.

    Home | The New York Observer 2009

  • The background of "The Gleaners," with its baking stubble-field under the midday sun, its grain stacks and laborers and distant farmstead, all tremulous in the reflected waves of heat, indistinct and almost indecipherable yet unmistakable, is nearly as wonderful; and no one has ever so rendered the solemnity and the mystery of night as has he in the marvellous "Sheepfold" of the Walters collection.

    Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects Kenyon Cox 1887

  • The restaurant, originally known as The Sheepfold in Central Park and constructed in the latter half of the 19th century, is one of the City’s finest examples of Victorian Gothic architecture and one of the Park’s most treasured landmarked buildings.

    Tavern on the Green: Now Up for Grabs! 1934

  • The restaurant, originally known as The Sheepfold in Central Park and constructed in the latter half of the 19th century, is one of the City’s finest examples of Victorian Gothic architecture and one of the Park’s most treasured landmarked buildings.

    Tavern on the Green: Now Up for Grabs! 1934

  • The goal and proper end of ecumenism is the conversion of separated Christians to the Catholic faith -- One Sheepfold, One Shepherd.

    Clarification 2009

  • As for Christ's prayer in John 17, one need not adopt the erroneous interpretation that it is about those outside the Sheepfold in order to see, as Blessed John XXIII and his successors have taught, that it has quite a lot to do with ecumenism.

    Clarification 2009

  • Mr. Walters loans the crayon sketch for it and one of "The Sower" and the "Sheepfold by Moonlight," with others, and there are some very interesting pastels and water-colors by Millet,

    The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890 Various

  • Sheepfold whose wall shall endure when there is not a stone of the palace.

    International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 7, August 12, 1850 Various

  • Sixty years later, Parks Commissioner Robert Moses converted the Sheepfold (which actually housed 200 sheep that grazed across the street) into a restaurant named Tavern on the Green, which opened to the public on October 20, 1934.

    Tavern on the Green: Now Up for Grabs! 1934

  • Sixty years later, Parks Commissioner Robert Moses converted the Sheepfold (which actually housed 200 sheep that grazed across the street) into a restaurant named Tavern on the Green, which opened to the public on October 20, 1934.

    Tavern on the Green: Now Up for Grabs! 1934

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