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	Calvert Vaux - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1850, Vaux exhibited a collection of his continental landscape watercolors, and it was this gallery that captured the attention of American landscape designer and writer Andrew Jackson Downing.
		Vaux took over the company and his later work in Central Park was to be a fitting memorial to his late partner.
		In 1872, Vaux dissolved the partnership and went on to building architecture, in a partnership with George Kent Radford and Samuel Parsons, Jr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Calvert_Vaux (801 words)

	CentralParkHistory.com
		Vaux attended a private primary school until he was nine and then began architectural training as an apprentice in the London office of Lewis N. Cottingham, an early advocate of the revival of Gothic architectural styles.
		Vaux became a skilled draftsman, and in 1850, a London gallery exhibition of his watercolors of continental landscapes attracted the attention of Andrew Jackson Downing, who had come to England to find an assistant to run a new architectural department in his own thriving landscape gardening practice.
		Vaux, who became Downing's partner, also helped prepare plans for more formal public grounds at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., a project that probably inspired an article he wrote in 1852 for the Horticulturalist in which he called for government recognition and support of the arts.
	www.centralparkhistory.com /whos_who (459 words)

	CALVERT VAUX - LoveToKnow Article on CALVERT VAUX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1856 and 1866 Vaux was associated with F. Olmsted in the plans for the improvement of various parks.
		VAUX OF HARROWDEN, THOMAS VAUX, 2ND BARON (1510-1556), English poet, eldest son of Nicholas Vaux, ist Baron Vaux, was born in 1510.
		Sketches of Vaux and his wife by Holbein are at Windsor, and a finished portrait of Lady Vaux is at Hampton Court.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /V/VA/VAUX_CALVERT.htm (452 words)

	Calvert Vaux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Calvert Vaux (1824 - 1895) was born in London, England.
		Vaux agreed and eventually was commissioned to design the park itself.
		Vaux dissolved his partnership with Olmsted in 1872.
	www.fredericklawolmsted.com /calvert_vaux.htm (413 words)

	Calvert Vaux -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		He was born in (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London in 1824, and his father was a doctor.
		In 1850, Vaux exhibited a collection of his continental landscape watercolors, and it was this gallery that captured the attention of American landscape designer and writer (United States landscape architect who designed the grounds of the White House and the Capitol Building (1815-1852)) Andrew Jackson Downing.
		Vaux took over the company and his later work in (A large park in Manhattan) Central Park was to be a fitting memorial to his late partner.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/calvert_vaux.htm (899 words)

	The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Works of Art: Virtual Reality Tour
		Calvert Vaux (1824–1895) was born and educated in London and went to the United States in 1850 to work with A. Downing.
		Vaux was involved with some of the most important large-scale public building projects of his day as well as with numerous smaller projects and private buildings.
		Vaux and Mould were deeply influenced by the Gothic Revival and were committed to the principles outlined by the architectural theorist John Ruskin.
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	Ulster Publishing - Woodstock Times, New Paltz Times, Saugerties Times, Kingston Times, Highland Mid-Hudson Post, ...
		Vaux made some money on the side by lettering railroad maps, enough so that he could tour Europe a bit, but he recognized that his prospects in England were not rosy, so when Downing offered him a passage to America and a job, he leapt at the opportunity.
		Vaux is buried in Kingston's Montrepose Cemetery, in the same row as Jervis McEntee and other members of their families, even though he died in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, while visiting his son Bowyer.
		Vaux would not live to see it completed in 1896, and by that time Olmsted was confined to an insane asylum, so the project was completed by their sons, Downing Vaux and John C. Olmsted.
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	Country, Park & City
		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.
		Vaux delivered at least one such lecture, a paper on the subject of "the supply and discharge of water to buildings," with special reference to "the details of arrangement in which the responsibility of the architect is more especially involved." On intermediate Fridays, members displayed sketches produced in response to a given theme.
		Vaux, who by 1848 was living in the far suburb of Newington, may have helped his friend Truefitt from time to time and certainly participated in the stimulating talk and sketching exercises at the rooms of the Architectural Association.
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	Calvert Vaux
		In 1865, Vaux was retained by the City of Brooklyn to prepare a design for that city's Prospect Park.
		Vaux dissolved his partnership with Olmsted in 1872, and two years later joined with civil engineer and architect George Kent Radford (who had worked with Vaux and Olmsted as Chief Engineer at both the Riverside and Buffalo parks projects previously).
		Bearing in mind that the day of his death was exceptionally foggy, that Vaux was unfamiliar with the area and that he was elderly, it might be reasonable to believe the judgement of the inquest was correct.
	www.geocities.com /heartland/7172/vaux_bio.htm (678 words)

	New York Architecture Images- Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux
		The London-born Calvert Vaux was apprenticed to a British architectural firm at the age of 19.
		Vaux deemed the first proposed design to be lacking, and suggested a public competition to find the best design for Central Park.
		Vaux takes over the company and his later work of Central Park was to be a fitting memorial to his late partner.
	www.nyc-architecture.com /ARCH/ARCH-OlmstedVaux.htm (1273 words)

	Calvert Vaux
		VAUX, Calvert (vawks), landscape architect, born in London, England, 20 December, 1824.
		Vaux held the office of consulting architect to the department of parks.
		Vaux is now landscape architect of the department of public parks, with charge of the improvements of city parks.
	www.famousamericans.net /calvertvaux (360 words)

	Olmsted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		London-born architect Calvert Vaux apprenticed under architect Lewis Nockalls Cottingham, a leader of the Gothic Revival movement, before he was recruited in by Andrew Jackson Downing to join Downing’s newly established architectural practice in Newburgh, New York.
		Vaux was determined that Central Park should be a fitting memorial to his partner.
		In implementing the design, Vaux was the chief designer of the architectural structures in the Park, working closely with Jacob Wrey Mould on the design of the Terrace, Bow Bridge and more than two dozen cast iron and stone bridges, and numerous rustic structures.
	www.elizabethbarlowrogers.com /lecture/definitions/def_vaux.htm (529 words)

	Calvert Vaux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Calvert Vaux (1824-1895), era arquitecto y diseñador del paisaje.
		Vaux asumió el control a compañía y el suyo trabaja más adelante en parque central debía ser un monumento de la guarnición a su último socio.
		Vaux diseñó muchas estructuras que eran beautify los parques, pero de éstos se ha demolido más.
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/ca/Calvert%20Vaux.htm (776 words)

	Olmsted in Buffalo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Olmsted and Vaux anticipated that their park system would be eventually extended to benefit the southern part of the city, where most of the working-class population lived.
		Olmsted and Vaux's parkways and avenues were designed to foster this suburbanization of the city, a notion that Olmsted regarded as an advance almost as important as the park movement itself.
		Olmsted and Vaux had written about the desirability of constructing a metropolitan body of parks and parkways in their 1865 report for Prospect Park in Brooklyn, and the following year they advised San Francisco city fathers to plan for a number of different types of parks in various parts of town.
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	ipedia.com: Calvert Vaux Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Calvert Vaux was a English / American architect.
		Vaux was born in London ; he moved to the U.S. in 1851, settling in upstate New York and being made partner of an architecture firm.
		Vaux was born in London; he moved to the U.S. in 1851, settling in upstate New York and being made partner of an architecture firm.
	www.ipedia.com /calvert_vaux.html (145 words)

	H-Net Review: Julie Nicoletta on Country, Park, and City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert ...
		By 1856, Vaux, in the midst of supervising the construction of his design for the Bank of New York, realized that in order to obtain important public and private commissions he would have to move to New York City.
		Kowsky argues that Vaux must have been the leader on the project; certainly in 1857 he had more experience in landscape design than Olmsted, and there is no reason to doubt that Vaux designed the numerous stone and iron bridges throughout the park (pp.
		Although the early 1870s were productive years for Vaux, it was apparent by the latter part of the decade that his adherence to the High Victorian Gothic Style, in the face of rising popularity for the Neoclassical, had made his work appear outdated.
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	Olmsted & Vaux
		Vaux realized that it would be impossible to create a broad expanse of rural scenery with a main highway jutting through its center.
		At the close of the Civil War in 1865, Vaux and his partner, Frederick Law Olmsted, were engaged to draw up plans for the enlarged and unified Park.
		Mount Royal, begun in 1874, was the first park that Olmsted designed after he and Calvert Vaux dissolved their partnership.
	www.ndsu.nodak.edu /instruct/dcollito/322/HO-OLMST.htm (735 words)

	Country, Park and City -- The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux -- Francis R. Kowsky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As Downing's partner, and after Downing's death in 1852, Vaux designed country and suburban dwellings that were remarkable for their well-conceived plans and their sensitive rapport with nature.
		Vaux considered the Park's Terrace, decorated by J. Mould, as his greatest achievement.
		The first in-depth account of Vaux's career, Country, Park, and City should be of interest to historians of art, architecture, and urbanism, as well as preservationists and other readers interested in New York City's past and America's first parks.
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	Country, Park, & City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux by Francis R. Kowsky [ISBN: 0195114957] - Find Cheap ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Notoriously introverted, Calvert Vaux left a legacy that, along with Central Park, includes Prospect Park in Brooklyn, original portions of both the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the American Museum of Natural History, as well as many other New York landmarks, yet most people outside of the architectural field have never heard of him.
		In setting the record straight, Kowsky describes how Vaux originally approached Olmstead to join him in entering the design competition for Central Park in 1857, and after they won, the more charismatic Olmstead was recognized as the force behind the plan, while Vaux kept to the shadows.
		Kowsky also reveals Vaux as the originator of apartment-style urban dwellings, a concept that he applied to both upscale and low-rent complexes in New York, and which are now standard metropolitan domiciles.
	www.adultdvdmagic.com /isbn_0195114957.html (450 words)

	Powell's Books - Country, Park, & City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux by Francis R Kowsky
		After beginning his career as an architect in London, Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) came to the Hudson River valley in 1850 at the invitation of Andrew Jackson Downing, the reform-minded writer on houses and gardens.
		An active participant in the cultural and intellectual life of New York, Vaux was an idealist who regarded himself as an artist and a professional.
		The first in-depth account of Vaux's career, Country, Park, and City should be of great interest to historians of art, architecture, and urbanism, as well as preservationists and other readers interested in New York City's past and America's first parks.
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	Hoyt House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Furthermore, Vaux himself testified that it took a while for him and the owners to agree on the best location for the house.
		It was also far enough removed from the tracks of the Hudson River Railroad that the noise of passing trains, which marred the solitude of Washington Irving at Sunnyside and many other riparian homeowners on the east side of the valley, did not reach the Point.
		Indeed, the porch, maintained Vaux, was the part of the house that first "appeals to the attention of the visitor," and he used the Hoyt house example in "Villas and Cottages" to demonstrate how this feature could be treated on the most liberal scale.
	preserve.bfn.org /bam/kowsky/hoyt (1162 words)

	bridges
		Calvert Vaux did the bulk of the bridge designs, with assistance from architect Jacob Wrey Mould on the castiron bridges, which are the oldest such bridges in America.
		Calvert Vaux was, according to legend, inspired by the Orangerie at the Palace of Versailles in Paris because the designs of both spaces are similar.
		Calvert Vaux' aim was to build a natural-setting bridge instead of one using brick and mortar.
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	Calvert Vaux (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Calvert Vaux (1824 - 1895) was a English / American architect.
		Vaux was born in London ; he moved tothe U.S. in 1851, settling in upstate NewYork and being made partner of an architecture firm.
		His most famous design was helping athen-little-known Frederick Law Olmsted design Central Park in New YorkCity from 1858 to 1878.
	www.therfcc.org /calvert-vaux-117837.html (91 words)

	VAUX, CALVERT (1824-1895) - Online Information article about VAUX, CALVERT (1824-1895)
		VAUX, CALVERT (1824-1895) - Online Information article about VAUX, CALVERT (1824-1895)
		In 1856 and 1866 Vaux was associated with F. See also:
		VAUX OF HARROWDEN, THOMAS VAUX, 2ND BARON (1510-155
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	Calvert Vaux
		Little is known about Calvert Vaux’s childhood and upbringings.He was born in London in 1824, and his
		In 1850, Vaux exhibited a collection of his continental landscape watercolors, and it was this gallery that
		plan was named “Greensward,” and they were able to obtain the commission through an excellent presentation thatcapitalized on Vaux’s talents in landscape drawing and the inclusion of before-and-after sketches of the site.Together, they fought many political battles to make sure their original design remained intact and carried out.
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