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Country, Park & City
The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux
by Francis R. Kowsky
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This biography of a little-known figure outside of architectural circles, offers a worthly contribution to the existing literature on the history of New York City's landmarks. Calvert Vaux (1824-1895), English architect of buildings and landscapes, was the designer--along with Frederick Law Olmstead--of Central Park. Vaux also designed portions of Brooklyn's Prospect Park, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the American Museum of Natural History. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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2003
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"A handsome effort to rescue from comparative oblivion the architect who shared--sometimes more than equally-- with Frederick Law Olmsted in the design of Central Park and other New York amenities."
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Calvert Vaux made the decision to leave his native England and to emigrate to the United States the day that he met Andrew Jackson Downing, a man whom many in America regarded as the supreme authority on matters of cultivated living.
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