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How Close Did We Come to Not Getting THIS Central Park?

How Close Did We Come to Not Getting THIS Central Park?

Calvert Vaux, Frederick Law Olmsted

Once most of the original property that would become New York’s Central Park had been acquired, the Central Park Commission called for a public design competition. A small classified advertisement was placed in The New York Times of October 30, 1857 and...

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