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Calvert Vaux (pictured) began working with Frederick Law Olmsted on the plans for Central Park in 1857. Their submittal, the Greensward plan, was one of 33.

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English architect and landscape architect Calvert Vaux designed homes, the American Museum of Natural History, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and collaborated with Frederick Law Olmsted on the design of Central Park, Morningside Park in Manhattan, and Prospect Park and Fort Greene Park in Brooklyn, among others.

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