Read Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. One of my big regrets about leaving Brooklyn is that I never really got to be an expert on Prospect Park. I just never went there enough to become one.

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Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. was the mastermind behind some of New York City’s most important parks and nature spots, as well as some more obscure locations. Olmsted, a Connecticut native who often ...

Calvert Vaux 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 ...

This issue of RECORD has an unlikely star, since the architect and landscape designer Calvert Vaux was often overshadowed by his partners during his career. (He died at 70 by drowning while walking ...

When Peter Vaux came to Buffalo from England in 2001, he was disappointed to find the Olmsted parks system, which his great-uncle, Calvert Vaux, designed with Frederick Law Olmsted 136 years ago, in ...

The Hudson River Valley region is fortunate to have landmarks designed by notables such as Calvert Vaux, Andrew Jackson Downing, Frederick Clarke Withers and Frederick Law Olmsted. Many world-renowned ...

Read Part 1, Part 3, and Part 4 of this story. The architectural and scenic wonders of France, Belgium and Germany have long been varied and great. In the summer of 1846, Calvert Vaux and his ...