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Definition of Calvert Vaux

1. Noun. United States landscape architect (born in England) who designed Central Park (1824-1895).

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Literary usage of Calvert Vaux

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"A. Stiles in Garden and Forest 8:480: Calvert Vaux was born in London in 1824. He had achieved success in architecture before thu age of twenty - four, ..."

2. A History of the Metropolitan Museum of Art: With a Chapter on the Early by Winifred Eva Howe, Henry Watson Kent (1913)
"177 By Calvert Vaux and J. Wrey Mould. TRANSVERSE SECTION OF PROPOSED MUSEUM PLAN . 179 By Calvert Vaux and J. Wrey Mould. THE FIRST BUILDING IN CENTRAL ..."

3. Proceedings of the New York State Historical Association: ... Annual Meeting by B. Boretz, New York State Historical Association, E. T. Cone, Meeting (1919)
"... in competition for the new park, the one signed "Greensward" which was the joint work of Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, and Central Park, ..."

4. Civil Engineer and Architect's Journal (1857)
"The author, Mr. Calvert Vaux, is, we believe, an Englishman; and he was already beginning to distinguish himself in his profession, when, as a young man, ..."

5. Frederick Law Olmsted, Landscape Architect, 1822-1903 by Frederick Law Olmsted, Theodora Kimball Hubbard (1922)
"Two of several very illuminating letters from Calvert Vaux to Mr. Olmsted, in 1864-65, which formed a turning point in the latter's career. ..."

6. Frederick Law Olmsted, Landscape Architect, 1822-1903 by Frederick Law Olmsted, Theodora Kimball Hubbard (1922)
"Two of several very illuminating letters from Calvert Vaux to Mr. Olmsted, in 1864-65, which formed a turning point in the latter's career. ..."

7. Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography by James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (1888)
"... and. of thirty-four that were sent in, the highest prize was awarded to the one that was prepared by Mr. Olmsted in conjunction with Calvert Vaux. ..."

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