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Vaux, Calvert
landscape architect; b. Dec. 20, 1824 (in London); d. November, 1895.
He studied architecture under Lewis N. Cottingham. He became the assistant of A. J. Downing, and later formed a partnership with him. The firm of Downing and Vaux laid out the grounds of the Capitol and the Smithsonian Institution in Washington. In association with Frederick Law Olmsted, Vauz made the plans according to which Central park in New York was laid out, and retained his position as consulting landscape architect of the department of parks in New York until his death. Olmsted and Vaux designed Prospect Park, Brooklyn, the parks of Chicago and Buffalo, the State Reservation at Niagara Falls, and the Riverside and Morningside parks in New York.
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