Creating Central Park /

Creating Central Park /

The year 2008 marks the 150th anniversary of the design of Central Park, the first and arguably the most famous of America's urban landscape parks. In October 1857 the new park's board of commissioners announced a public design competition, and the following April the imaginative yet pract...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heckscher, Morrison H.
Corporate Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : New Haven [Conn.] : Metropolitan Museum of Art ; Yale University Press, ©2008.
Series:Metropolitan Museum of Art bulletin ; v. 65, no. 3.
Subjects:
Landscape architecture > New York (State) > New York > History.
Architecture du paysage > New York (État) > New York > Histoire.
Landscape architecture.
Central Park (New York, N.Y.) > History.
New York (N.Y.) > History.
Central Park (New York, N.Y.) > Histoire.
New York (N.Y.) > Histoire.
New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York > Central Park.
New York <NY> > Central Park.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Director's note / Philippe de Montebello
  • A note from the New York City Parks Commissioner / Adrian Benepe
  • A note from the President of the Central Park Conservancy / Douglas Blonsky
  • The Commissioners' plan and New York City's early parks and squares
  • The decision to build an new park and the selection of its site
  • Egbert L. Viele and the first park plan
  • The design competition
  • Vaux, Olmsted, and the Greensward Plan
  • Building the park
  • Calvert Vaux, Jacob Wrey Mould, and the park buildings
  • Richard Morris Hunt and Central Park
  • Sculpture in the park
  • Central Park completed.

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