Calvert Vaux
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Calvert Vaux FAIA was an English-American architect and landscape designer. He and his professional partner Frederick Law Olmsted designed parks such as Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City
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New York City's Central Park
Olana, a collaboration with Frederic Church (1870–72)
Downing Park, Newburgh, NY (1889)
Belvedere Castle
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Belvedere Castle is a folly in Central Park in Manhattan, New York City. It contains exhibit rooms, an observation deck, and since 1919 has housed Central Park’s official weather station.
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…The Dairy (completed 1869) Belvedere Castle (built 1867–71), with Mould…
Belvedere Castle and Turtle Pond, Central Park, Manhattan, New York
The tower in February 2005; note the anemometer and wind vane on the top; these instruments record the official wind speed and direction for Central Park
The remainder of the current weather station for Central Park is located in the wooded area immediately south of the castle, protected by a chain link fence topped with barbed wire
Mould's bronze cockatrice, part of a transom over a doorway of the Castle in 2004