Built in 1872 as a decorative “folly,” Belvedere Castle later became NYC’s official weather station—and a Central Park icon ...

Frederick Law Olmsted and Vaux designed Central Park as an oasis of tranquillity, but it has witnessed many untranquil events. New Yorkers seem drawn there at moments of common crisis, perhaps ...

when they won the bid in 1858 to create the 'Greensward Plan' for the public greenspace in Manhattan now known as Central Park. For what they considered the heart of the park, Vaux and Olmsted ...

Chicago’s Jackson Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux – the men behind New York’s Central Park. They teamed up with Daniel Burnham to transform the park into the so ...

Calvert Vaux collaborated with Frederick Law Olmsted to create beautiful and harmonious public spaces, such as the Olmsted Parks System in Buffalo and Central Park in New York City. He also ...

How so? Primarily by designing, with his partner, Calvert Vaux, the first citywide park-and-parkway system ever created anywhere, right here in Buffalo. Olmsted skillfully overlaid and integrated ...