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Calvert Vaux

1824 - 1895

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Calvert Vaux FAIA (; December 20, 1824 – November 19, 1895) was an English-American architect and landscape designer. He and his protégé Frederick Law Olmsted designed parks such as Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City and the Delaware Park–Front Park System in Buffalo, New York. Vaux, on his own and in various partnerships, designed and created dozens of parks across the northeastern United States, most famously in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Buffalo in New York. He introduced new ideas about the significance of public parks in America during a hectic time of urbanization. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Calvert Vaux is the 483rd most popular architect (up from 494th in 2019), the 4,906th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 5,269th in 2019) and the 41st most popular British Architect.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Calvert Vaux ranks 483 out of 518. Before him are Otto Bartning, Patricia Urquiola, Alexander Wittek, Ivan Fomin, Arnold Bode, and Suad Amiry. After him are Henry Hobson Richardson, Harry Vardon, Bjarke Ingels, Robert Smirke, Peter Cook, and Richard Morris Hunt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1824, Calvert Vaux ranks 79. Before him are Aniceto Arce, Christen Dalsgaard, Victoire Léodile Béra, Charles Blondin, Franz Sigel, and Edmund Kirby Smith. After him are Samuel Plimsoll, Eastman Johnson, and William Allingham. Among people deceased in 1895, Calvert Vaux ranks 88. Before him are Walter Q. Gresham, Manuel Pavía y Rodríguez de Alburquerque, Peter Hardeman Burnett, Joseph Thomson, Jan Kappeyne van de Coppello, and Lady Charlotte Guest. After him are Henry Seebohm, Richard Morris Hunt, Hugh McCulloch, Emily Faithfull, and James Gall.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Calvert Vaux ranks 4,907 out of 8,785. Before him are Jamie Bell (1986), Lynn Fontanne (1887), James Wilson (1805), Ewen Bremner (1972), Olivia Manning (1908), and Brian Cox (1968). After him are Omid Djalili (1965), Simon Blackburn (1944), Edgeworth David (1858), Jacqueline Wilson (1945), John Rupert Firth (1890), and Mike Summerbee (1942).

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Among ARCHITECTS In United Kingdom

Among architects born in United Kingdom, Calvert Vaux ranks 41. Before him are Kenneth Frampton (1930), Nicholas Grimshaw (1939), Nicholas Hawksmoor (1661), James Wyatt (1746), William Adam (1689), and James Gibbs (1682). After him are Robert Smirke (1780), Peter Cook (1936), Joseph Pickford (1736), Aston Webb (1849), Benjamin Mountfort (1825), and Giles Gilbert Scott (1880).

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