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 ...

As I mentioned in the first piece of this series, the bridges Olmsted and Vaux created over the transverse roads in Central Park are, in a sense, land bridges. They put not just a bridge and a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Also see Frank Kowsky’s book, The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System, ...