In their submission to the design competition for Central Park, Olmsted and Calvert Vaux include “before” images showing an unprepossessing landscape: barren fields, marked only by scrub growth and ...

Olmsted, a Connecticut native who often collaborated with Calvert Vaux, spearheaded projects such as Central Park and Prospect Park, as well as Boston’s Emerald Necklace and the Biltmore in ...

I’ve come to Central Park to find out ... Miller is as close as anyone could get to walking these paths with Olmsted and Vaux themselves. Olmsted had a love of vast, open spaces, which certainly ...

The idea for the urban oasis that would become Central Park was proposed by Olmsted’s friend Andrew Jackson Downing, who later introduced Olmsted to Calvert Vaux. Olmsted and Vaux joined ...

Olmsted’s solutions—Central Park, Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, Boston’s Emerald Necklace, among dozens of others, many designed with his longtime collaborator Calvert Vaux—were just as radical.

If Central Park is meant to serve as the ... visions of Frederick Law Olmsted and Robert Moses. Olmsted, along with his colleague Calvert Vaux, designed the original “Greensward” plan ...

One could say that after Olmsted and Vaux experimented in Central Park, they came to Brooklyn with a more perfect plan, and Prospect Park was born. I believe that, as do millions of others who have ...

Originally built in 1872 as a whimsical “folly” by Central Park designers Olmsted and Vaux, Belvedere Castle was never intended to function as a real building. With no windows or doors ...

Picnics were illegal in Central Park during the late 1800s ... digging deeper waterbeds that were suitable for wildlife. Olmsted and Vaux's original design was pretty, but not very functional ...