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Olmsted's Triumph
One hundred and fifty years ago this month, the New York State legislature set aside the land that would become Central Park. By 1876, landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted and architect Calvert Vaux had transformed the swampy, treeless 50 blocks between Harlem and midtown Manhattan into the first landscaped park in the United States. Here's to New York City's 843-acre backyard!
July 2003 |
By Witold Rybczynski
