Editing Calvert Vaux (section)

==Collaboration with Olmsted==
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[[File:New York City-Manhattan-Central Park (Gentry).jpg|thumb|New York City's [[Central Park]]]]
[[File:Olana, August 2015.jpg|thumb|[[Olana]], a collaboration with [[Frederic Church]] (1870–72)]]
In 1857, Vaux recruited [[Frederick Law Olmsted]], who had never before designed a landscape plan, to help with the Greensward Plan, which would become New York City's [[Central Park]]. They obtained the commission through the [[Greensward Plan]], an excellent presentation that drew upon Vaux's talents in landscape drawing to include before-and-after sketches of the site. Together, they fought many political battles to make sure their original design remained intact and was carried out. All of the built features of Central Park were of his design; [[Bethesda Terrace]] is a good example.

In 1865, Vaux and Olmsted founded Olmsted, Vaux and Co., which went on to design [[Prospect Park (Brooklyn)|Prospect Park]] and [[Fort Greene Park]] in [[Brooklyn]], and [[Morningside Park (New York City)|Morningside Park]] in [[Manhattan]]. In [[Chicago]], they planned one of the first suburbs for the [[Riverside, Illinois|Riverside Improvement Company]] in 1868. They also were commissioned to design a major park project in [[Buffalo, New York]], which included The Parade (now [[Martin Luther King, Jr. Park]]), The Park (now the [[Delaware Park-Front Park System|Delaware Park]]), and The Front (now simply [[Delaware Park-Front Park System|Front Park]]). 

Vaux designed many structures to beautify the parks, but most of these have been demolished. Vaux also designed a large Canadian city park in the city of [[Saint John, New Brunswick]] called [[Rockwood Park, Saint John|Rockwood Park]]. It is one of the largest of its kind in Canada. 

In 1871, the partners designed the grounds of the [[H. H. Richardson Complex|New York State Hospital for the Insane]] in Buffalo and the [[Hudson River State Hospital|Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane]] in [[Poughkeepsie (town), New York|Poughkeepsie]].

In 1872, Vaux dissolved the partnership and went on to form an architectural partnership with George K. Radford and [[Samuel Parsons]]. In that same year he completed work on [[Olana State Historic Site|Olana]], the home of artist [[Frederic Edwin Church]], who collaborated with Vaux on the mansion's design.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Ryan|first=James Anthony|title=Frederic Church's Olana: Architecture and Landscape as Art|publisher=Black Dome Press|year=2011|isbn=978-1-883789-28-2|location=Hensonville, New York}}</ref>

Famous [[New York City]] buildings Vaux designed are the [[Samuel J. Tilden House]], and the original Ruskinian Gothic buildings, now largely invisible from exterior view, of the [[American Museum of Natural History]] and the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]. In addition to the New York buildings, Vaux also was the  architect for [[The Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital]] in [[Towson, Maryland]].

Less familiar are twelve projects Vaux designed for the [[Children's Aid Society]] in partnership with Radford; the [[Fourteenth Ward Industrial School]] (1889), pp. 256-258 Mott Street, facing the churchyard of [[St. Patrick's Old Cathedral]],<ref>[http://www.nysonglines.com/mott.htm New York songlines.com: Mott Street]; [http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/the-masterpiece-next-door/a257d22de9ede0b66f1d108cc323b5f4 The Masterpiece next door: Fourteenth Ward Industrial School] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120406104913/http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/the-masterpiece-next-door/a257d22de9ede0b66f1d108cc323b5f4 |date=April 6, 2012 }}</ref> and the Elizabeth Home for Girls (1892), 307 East 12th Street, both survive and are landmarked.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=2008-06-08 |title=A House of Refuge, With Stories to Tell |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/realestate/08scap.html |access-date=2023-02-09 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
[[File:Downing Park, Newburgh, NY - 1.JPG|thumb|[[Downing Park (Newburgh, New York)|Downing Park, Newburgh, NY]] (1889)]]
The last collaboration between Vaux and Olmsted was [[Downing Park (Newburgh, New York)|Downing Park]] in Newburgh, given to the memory of Downing. Divided into two sections, a hillside landscape and a meadow, the partners handled each differently, connecting them via paths. After Vaux's death, his son Downing completed the grounds, adding a [[Conservatory (greenhouse)|conservatory]] of his own design. [[John Charles Olmsted|John C. Olmstead]] completed his father's portion as he had become gravely ill and could not return to Newburgh.<ref>Kowsky, pp. 317–319</ref>