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Calvert Vaux FAIA ( / vɔːks /; December 20, 1824 – November 19, 1895) was an English-American architect and landscape designer, best known as the co-designer, along with his protégé and junior partner Frederick Law Olmsted, of what would become New York City 's Central Park .
Calvert Vaux (Q2577471) Calvert Vaux. Anglo-American architect (1824-1895) edit. Language. Label. Description. Also known as. English.
2018 Built in the Hudson Valley, Calvert Vaux Preservation Alliance at Morton Memorial Library, Rhinecliff, New York, 2018 Negative Space III Exhibition, Brooklyn Grain, New York City, 2018
May 23, 2018 · Vaux, Calvert. views updated May 23 2018. Vaux, Calvert (1824–95). London-born American architect and landscape-designer, he assisted A. J. Downing in laying out the grounds of the Capitol, Smithsonian Institution, and White House, Washington, DC (1850–2).
Jun 13, 2018 · Calvert Vaux and Central Park’s Dairy. June 13, 2018. In the early days, Central Park had sheep, but no cows. It did, however, have a Dairy, because of a scandal that broke in the summer of 1858.
An architect, environmental advocate, and landscape designer of national reputation, Calvert Vaux (rhymes with talks) enriched Mississippi not only by creating its most renowned antebellum Italianate mansion but also by producing a unique trove of sixteen beautifully drafted drawings used in its construction. Born to a prosperous English family on 20 December 1824, Vaux was […]
Dec 20, 2018 · Posted December 20, 2018. By Sarah Bean Apmann. Calvert Vaux, one of the most prolific and influential architects in the United States during the second half of the 19th century, was born on December 20, 1824, in London, England.
