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    Calvert Vaux FAIA (/vɔːks/; December 20, 1824 – November 19, 1895) was an English-American architect and landscape designer. He and his protégé Frederick...
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    Calvert Vaux Park (formerly known as Dreier Offerman Park) is an 85.53-acre (34.61 ha) public park in Gravesend, Brooklyn, in New York City. Created in...
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    in the Italianate style by Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux. Following a fire in 1855, Vaux rebuilt the house with modified plans. Richard Morris...
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    co-designing many well-known urban parks with his partner Calvert Vaux. Olmsted and Vaux's first project was Central Park in New York City, which led...
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    Central Park’s official weather station. Belvedere Castle was designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould in 1867. An architectural hybrid of Romanesque and...
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    guano trade. Beaulieu was designed for Barreda by New York architect Calvert Vaux, who also designed the bridges in New York's Central Park. In July 1859...
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    Central Park (category Calvert Vaux designs)
    approved in 1853. In 1858, landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition for the park with their "Greensward Plan". Construction...
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    hospitals in the nation. Its original buildings, designed by architect Calvert Vaux, and its Gothic gatehouse, built in 1860 to a design by Thomas and James...
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    architect of Trinity Church Cemetery and further updates were made by Calvert Vaux. The uptown cemetery is also the center of the Heritage Rose District...
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    bridges that does not traverse a bridle path. The bridge was designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould, and completed in 1862. It was built by the Bronx-based...
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    neighborhoods, the park was designed in 1871 by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and remodeled in 1893 to serve as the site of the World's Columbian Exposition...
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    to a stand-alone community) in the United States, designed in 1869 by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted. The village was incorporated in 1875. The...
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    Park in Manhattan, New York City. Part of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux's 1857 Greensward Plan for Central Park, the features are located on the...
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    continental landscape watercolors by Englishman Calvert Vaux captured his attention. He encouraged Vaux to emigrate to the United States, and opened what...
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    Inlet Park Bushwick Playground Butterfly Gardens (Brooklyn) Cadman Plaza Calvert Vaux Park Campiz Playground Canarsie Park Callahan-Kelly Playground Carroll...
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    landings, and herringbone pattern paving of Roman brick laid on edge. In Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted's 1858 Greensward Plan, the terrace at the...
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    Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, is the most visited city park in the United States. Prospect Park in Brooklyn, also designed by Olmsted and Vaux, has a 90-acre...
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    late 19th century by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux as roads that separated pedestrians, bicyclists, equestrians, and horse...
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    first purpose-built structure in Theodore Roosevelt Park was designed by Calvert Vaux and J. Wrey Mould and opened on December 22, 1877. Numerous wings have...
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    sprawl beyond Prospect Park (completed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1873 and widely heralded as an improvement upon the earlier Central...
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    miles north of Newburgh). He commissioned Andrew Jackson Downing and Calvert Vaux to remodel an existing farmhouse into an Italianate villa, naming it...
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  • Architects (ASLA) in 1899. Born to Calvert Vaux, a noted architect (1824-1895), and Mary Swan McEntee (1830-1892), Vaux was named after his father's mentor...
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  • separate occasions Bert Vaux (born 1968), American teacher of phonology and morphology at the University of Cambridge Calvert Vaux (1824–1895), British-born...
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    Illinois, a suburb just west of Chicago. It was planned and designed by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted and features a number of architecturally distinguished...
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    In 1864, Fort Greene Park was redesigned by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux; the park notably includes the Prison Ship Martyrs' Monument and crypt...
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    Herbert Von King Park (category Calvert Vaux designs)
    took control of the park, and in 1871, James Stranahan commissioned Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted – architects for Central and Prospect parks...
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    forms impossible in stone, as in Calvert Vaux's cast-iron Gothic bridge in Central Park, New York dating from the 1860. Vaux enlisted openwork forms derived...
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    District, University of Mississippi. Ammadelle (Pegues House), designed by Calvert Vaux Barnard Observatory (Center for the Study of Southern Culture), University...
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    America, headed by native Andrew Jackson Downing with English architects Calvert Vaux and Frederick Clarke Withers. Mount Saint Mary College is a private liberal...
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    was not a gambling business. The building was originally designed by Calvert Vaux in 1862 as part of the Greensward Plan for Central Park. Initial plans...
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