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Discovering Calvert Vaux

Calvert Vaux is best known as the co-designer, along with his junior partner Frederick Law Olmsted, of Central Park. Yes – despite Olmsted’s superior name recognition, it was Vaux who convinced the City to have the design competition and then invited Olmsted to join him in preparing what would become the winning plan. (Olmsted admitted that, without Vaux, “I should have not been a landscape architect. I should have been a farmer.”)

Who was this Brit who was the first to call himself a “Landscape Architect”, who came to New York City in 1850 and stayed for the rest of life, sparking the urban park movement and leaving us with the unsurpassed designs for Prospect and Morningside Parks, Niagara, and of course Central Park?

Central Park guide Ron Korcak helps us get to know Vaux: the architect, the engineer, the protégé and the mentor. We’ll meet his influences (Cottingham, Truefitt, Downing) and follow his journeys. But most especially, we’ll meet the man who loved nature so much that he found a way to bring the pastoral into the city so that we could all experience its beauty and life-enhancing gifts every day.











When: Wed., Jun. 17, 2020 at 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Where: Landmark West!
45 W. 67th St.
212-496-8110
Price: $10
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Calvert Vaux is best known as the co-designer, along with his junior partner Frederick Law Olmsted, of Central Park. Yes – despite Olmsted’s superior name recognition, it was Vaux who convinced the City to have the design competition and then invited Olmsted to join him in preparing what would become the winning plan. (Olmsted admitted that, without Vaux, “I should have not been a landscape architect. I should have been a farmer.”)

Who was this Brit who was the first to call himself a “Landscape Architect”, who came to New York City in 1850 and stayed for the rest of life, sparking the urban park movement and leaving us with the unsurpassed designs for Prospect and Morningside Parks, Niagara, and of course Central Park?

Central Park guide Ron Korcak helps us get to know Vaux: the architect, the engineer, the protégé and the mentor. We’ll meet his influences (Cottingham, Truefitt, Downing) and follow his journeys. But most especially, we’ll meet the man who loved nature so much that he found a way to bring the pastoral into the city so that we could all experience its beauty and life-enhancing gifts every day.

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