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Calvert Vaux was born on December 20, 1824, in London, England. He was the son of Dr. Calvert Bowyer and Emily (Brickwood) Vaux.
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The English-born architect Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) moved to America in 1850 and within 20 years won a reputation as one of America's greatest landscape architects. He was co-designer (with Frederick Law Olmstead and others) of a number of New York City's principal parks (Central Park, Morningside and Riverside Parks, Prospect Park in Brooklyn), South Park in Chicago, and the Metropolitan and Natural History Museums in New York City. Vaux was a major influence in the development of a national architecture in America. Villas and Cottages, published in 1857, was his only book. It forms a record of his early work in the field of domestic architecture. It contains 39 designs for well-styled, efficient, and low-priced houses - rural and suburban cottages, villas and town houses built in the Hudson River Valley during the 1850s. Each design is supplemented with detailed floor plans, perspective views, a lively commentary, and vignettes illustrating various details; front and side elevations are included in many cases.
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Excerpt from Villas and Cottages: A Series of Designs Prepared for Execution in the United States The accompanying designs have been prepared with in the last few years to respond to the varied require ments of different parties who have asked for them, and it is conceived, therefore, that they may possibly represent, to some useful extent, to those who are about to build in the country, the accommodations and arrangements for convenience that 'appertain to such buildings. They are not brought before the pub lic as model designs, to lessen the necessity for the ex ercise of individual taste, but, as far as possible, to in crease its activity, Such books are needed as step ping-stones; for no general popular progress can be made in any art without ample and cheap opportuni ties for comparison and criticism; and the chief value of illustrated works on such topics as domestic archi tecture must always lie in the fact that they are calcu lated to rouse into active life the dormant capacity for individual preference, which all possess more or'less, and which is absolutely necessary for a just artistic Opinion on any subject. It is for this reason, and with the hope of being more generally intelligible and pop ularly useful, that the engravings are arranged, in the present volume, in a condensed, regular manner, so that they may be examined with little trouble and with but slight reference to the descriptions; the eye thus being enabled to glance from one to the other briefly and easily. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Calvert Vaux was born on December 20, 1824, in London, England. He was the son of Dr. Calvert Bowyer and Emily (Brickwood) Vaux.
Having received his early education at the Merchant Taylors' School in London, to which he was admitted in December 1833, Vaux entered the office of Lewis N. Cottingham, a well-known architect of the time, as an articled pupil.
In the summer of 1850, Andrew Jackson Downing visited England for the purpose of securing the services of a trained architect to assist him in his growing practice and chose Vaux. Until Downing's untimely death in 1852 Vaux worked with him at their joint office at Newburgh on the Hudson and assisted in the design of the grounds about the Capitol and the Smithsonian Institution at Washington. About 1857, he removed to New York City, where he lived for the rest of his life. In the same year, he published his only book, Villas, and Cottages: a Series of Designs Prepared for Execution in the United States, which contains a record of his early architectural work. It was revised in 1864 and reprinted in 1867.
In 1857, in collaboration with Frederick Law Olmsted, Vaux submitted a design for Central Park, New York. Upon the acceptance of their plan, submitted under the signature of "Greensward, " the two were put in charge of its execution, Olmsted as an architect in chief, and Vaux as consulting architect. For a number of years, the two were associated in private practice, Vaux supplying the knowledge of architecture which Olmsted lacked. Their work includes Prospect Park in Brooklyn, Morningside Park and Riverside Park in New York City, the South Park in Chicago, the state reservation at Niagara Falls, and a suburban village at Riverside, near Chicago.
For many years, Vaux was a landscape architect to the department of public parks of New York City (1881-83, 1888 - 95). It has been said of him that nothing "could have induced him to degrade his art or misuse the reputation which secured his employment, by consenting to modify his criticism or give the sanction of his name to a plan he could not approve.
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Vaux was a modest and unassuming gentleman, a most genial companion, a loyal and incorruptible public servant . "
On November 19, 1895, he was drowned in Gravesend Bay. He was survived by two sons and two daughters.
Vaux's wife, Mary Swan McEntee, daughter of James S. McEntee of Rondout, New York, whom he married on May 4, 1854, died in 1892. They had four children.