Catherine Parker. With over 800 acres, it’s impossible to explore all of Central Park in one visit. Central Park is ...

From here, it is a short stroll to Prospect Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux of Central Park fame. At weekends, the borough's de facto backyard is a ruckus of runners, cyclists ...

Jackson Park was the site of the World’s Columbian Exposition. Chicago’s Jackson Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux – the men behind New York’s Central Park.

Sheep Meadow may feel like the countryside, but it was the park’s most expensive landscape to build. Olmsted and Vaux took a swampy field, filled it with four feet of dirt, and blasted out any ...

Meanwhile, Olmsted and Vaux lodged their architectural plans for the museum building and dug out the foundations. Alas, the political winds were shifting in New York City by 1870.

It’s a beautiful day in New York’s Central Park, and Isabella Rossellini is whispering in my ear. “Beneath the leafy canopy, you are surrounded by miracles of nature,” she says of the scene that ...

How about “Olmsted & Vaux Gate” to honor Central Park’s architects? Or “Seneca Village Gate” to permanently mark the landscape along what is now the park’s perimeter from W. 82nd to W ...

While planning Central Park, Olmsted and Vaux examined the geological layers and “didn’t modify the existing landscape that much,” Nolan argued, only adding roads, a reservoir, and lake.

Glancing at Central Park, which is considered the crowning achievement of Frederick Law Olmsted (and his collaborator Calvert Vaux), Zewde told me how Olmsted’s writing had been “formational ...

The name Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. is nearly as well known as his most famous landscape — New York City’s Central Park, which he co-designed with Calvert Vaux. But Olmsted’s legacy and ...