Lake Eola is a natural body of water in Downtown Orlando, Florida. Located in Lake Eola Park, it was created naturally by a sinkhole with a depth of about 80 feet. The lake is about 4,500 feet in circumference with a multi-use sidewalk surrounding the body of water.
Established in 1888, the park and pond were part of the first parcel of land donated to the City of Orlando by several local families. Four years later, the area was officially declared to be a park. In its time it has functioned as a zoo, a racetrack for horses, and has also had a pier with a dance area. The park also had once been the site of a local radio station’s music broadcasting.
In 1912, a fountain was installed just south of the deepest area of the sinkhole within Lake Eola. Forty-five years later the “Centennial Fountain” replaced the original fountain. Completed in 1957, the fountain commemorated the 100th anniversary of Orlando’s naming.
Eight years after its completion, the fountain was renamed the Linton E. Allen Memorial Fountain, to honor a local banker who had been inspired by the fountains he had seen in his travels abroad and pushed for the construction of the fountain.
The Orlando Sentinel’s reports the first event of switching the fountain on: “…the crowd gasped as the main spout shot water 75 feet into the air, the multi-hued lights came on, and smaller spouts around the fountain’s rim threw a fountain of water around the beautiful edifice.”
The VUE is a new 36-story, 375-unit luxury condo high rise in downtown Orlando, on the corner of Rosalind Avenue and Robinson Street. Walking distance from the developing Performing Arts Center and a great selection of Orlando bars and restaurants, this downtown luxury urban living Orlando high rise overlooks Lake Eola and its surrounding park.