British (at birth) and American (after naturalization in 1856).
Occupation
Architect
Spouse
Mary Swan McEntee
Children
Calvert Downing Helen Julia
Practice
1850–1895
Buildings
Dr. William A. M. Culbert House Daniel Parish House Halsey Stevens House W. E. Warren House Sheppard Asylum Ammadelle Frederico Berreda House Belvedere Castle Olana Metropolitan Museum of Art
Projects
Central Park Prospect Park Buffalo Parks System Hudson River State Hospital Samuel J. Tilden House Downing Park Rockwood Park, Saint John
Calvert Vaux FAIA (/vɔːks/; December 20, 1824 – November 19, 1895) 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 City's Central Park.
Vaux, on his own and in various partnerships, designed and created dozens of parks across the northeastern United States, most famously in New York City, Brooklyn, and Buffalo. He introduced new ideas about the significance of public parks in America during a hectic time of urbanization. This industrialization of the cityscape inspired Vaux to focus on the integration of buildings, bridges, and other forms of architecture into their natural surroundings. He favored naturalistic and curvilinear lines in his designs.
In addition to landscape architecture, Vaux was a highly-sought after architect until the 1870s, when his modes of design could not endure the country's return to classical forms. His partnership with Andrew Jackson Downing, a major figure in horticulture, landscape design, and domestic architecture, brought him from London to Newburgh, New York, in 1850. There, Downing's praise of Gothic Revival and Italianate architecture contributed to Vaux's personal growth as a designer of homes and landscapes. After Downing's sudden death in 1852, Vaux was left with their assistant Frederick Clarke Withers to continue Downing's legacy. He left Newburgh in 1856 to grow his practice in New York City, where he began, received and completed commissions with Olmsted, Withers, and Jacob Wrey Mould. As a result, Vaux's name was frequently overshadowed by other designers, such as Olmsted, yet the contemporary American public still recognized his talents.
CalvertVaux FAIA (/vɔːks/; December 20, 1824 – November 19, 1895) was an English-American architect and landscape designer, best known as the co-designer...
CalvertVaux 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...
co-designing many well-known urban parks with his partner CalvertVaux. Olmsted and Vaux's first project was New York's Central Park, which led to many...
Central Park’s official weather station. Belvedere Castle was designed by CalvertVaux and Jacob Wrey Mould in 1867. An architectural hybrid of Romanesque and...
approved in 1853. In 1857, landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and CalvertVaux won a design competition for the park with their "Greensward Plan". Construction...
continental landscape watercolors by Englishman CalvertVaux captured his attention. He encouraged Vaux to emigrate to the United States, and opened what...
was not a gambling business. The building was originally designed by CalvertVaux in 1862 as part of the Greensward Plan for Central Park. Initial plans...
architect of Trinity Church Cemetery and further updates were made by CalvertVaux. The uptown cemetery is also the center of the Heritage Rose District...
hospitals in the nation. Its original buildings, designed by architect CalvertVaux, and its Gothic gatehouse, built in 1860 to a design by Thomas and James...
Olmsted and CalvertVaux, is the most visited city park in the United States. Prospect Park in Brooklyn, also designed by Olmsted and Vaux, has a 90-acre...
late 19th century by landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and CalvertVaux as roads that separated pedestrians, bicyclists, equestrians, and horse...
first purpose-built structure in Theodore Roosevelt Park was designed by CalvertVaux and J. Wrey Mould and opened on December 22, 1877. Numerous wings have...
landings, and herringbone pattern paving of Roman brick laid on edge. In CalvertVaux and Frederick Law Olmsted's 1858 Greensward Plan, the terrace at the...
separate occasions Bert Vaux (born 1968), American teacher of phonology and morphology at the University of Cambridge CalvertVaux (1824–1895), British-born...
took control of the park, and in 1871, James Stranahan commissioned CalvertVaux and Frederick Law Olmsted – architects for Central and Prospect parks...
Architects (ASLA) in 1899. Born to CalvertVaux, a noted architect (1824-1895), and Mary Swan McEntee (1830-1892), Vaux was named after his father's mentor...
sprawl beyond Prospect Park (completed by Frederick Law Olmsted and CalvertVaux in 1873 and widely heralded as an improvement upon the earlier Central...
Revolutionary War hero, it was redesigned by Frederick Law Olmsted and CalvertVaux, architects of Central Park and Prospect Park, in 1867. Fort Greene Park...
Park in Manhattan, New York City. Part of Frederick Law Olmsted and CalvertVaux's 1857 Greensward Plan for Central Park, the features are located on the...
forms impossible in stone, as in CalvertVaux's cast-iron Gothic bridge in Central Park, New York dating from the 1860. Vaux enlisted openwork forms derived...
Inlet Park Bushwick Playground Butterfly Gardens (Brooklyn) Cadman Plaza CalvertVaux Park Campiz Playground Canarsie Park Callahan-Kelly Playground Carroll...
masterpiece designed by Frederic Church in consultation with the architect CalvertVaux. The stone, brick, and polychrome-stenciled villa is a mixture of Victorian...
financial restrictions that Sheppard put in place, the asylum, designed by CalvertVaux, did not open until 1891, almost 34 years after Sheppard's death. When...
89th Street, and Temple Shaaray Tefila on East 79th Street. In 1882, CalvertVaux was commissioned to design a small, red brick Metaher house or place...
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