Revolutionary Tours NYC

06/06/2024

Downing Park named after the great American landscape gardener Andrew Jackson Downing, who mentored Calvert Vaux and influenced Frederick Law Olmsted, co-designers of Central Park, Prospect Park, Buffalo’s park system, and many other public parks. Downing Park was Olmsted and Vaux’s last collaboration, a tribute to Downing in his hometown. They provided the plans in 1889, with the park opening in 1897.

05/17/2024

There were many motivations for creating Central Park in the 1850s to 1870s, from giving New York a great park like those in Europe to raising the value of real estate surrounding the park to providing a democratic space, but Frederick Law Olmsted knew, based on his own empirical insights, that a large park could improve the city's citizens physical, mental, and spiritual health....

There were many motivations for creating Central Park in the 1850s to 1870s, from giving New York a great park like those in Europe to raising the value of real estate surrounding the park to providing a democratic space, but Frederick Law Olmsted knew, based on his own empirical insights, that a la...