Revisiting Gilded Age New York with Calvert Vaux IN PERSON

Revisiting Gilded Age New York with Calvert Vaux

With Francis Kowsky, Author, Historian and SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus and

Sara Cedar Miller, Author and Historian Emerita of the Central Park Conservancy

Tuesday, October 27th at 6:00 P.M

An In-Person and Online Program

Presented in Partnership with the Calvert Vaux Preservation Alliance (CVPA)

and the New York Landmarks Conservancy

An Archtober Event

In the second half of the 19th century, New York grew into a true metropolis. Most people know about landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted’s work here, but in reality, it was his friend and collaborator Calvert Vaux who played the key role in creating both Central Park and Prospect Park in the city, as well as many other works around the country. Vaux also drew the plans for some of the grandest and historically significant buildings of his day. In this presentation, historians Francis Kowsky and Sara Cedar Miller will explore and discuss Vaux’s lasting—and often overlooked—contributions to New York’s urban legacy.

Francis Kowsky is SUNY Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians. For many years, he taught the history of art at Buffalo State College. He has written books and articles on 19th-century American architects, including Frederick Withers, Jacob Wrey Mould, and Calvert Vaux. His book Calvert Vaux, Landscape Architect, was published earlier this year by the Library of American Landscape History.

Sara Cedar Miller has been the Historian Emerita of the Central Park Conservancy since 2017. She was the Conservancy photographer from 1984 and also its historian from 1989 to 2017. Miller is the author of Central Park: An American Masterpiece (2003), Strawberry Fields, Central Park’s Memorial to John Lennon (2011), Seeing Central Park: The Official Guidebook: Updated and Expanded (2021) and Before Central Park (2022).

The Calvert Vaux Preservation Alliance (CVPA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization currently working to restore and repurpose The Point, an 1855 Vaux work, in Staatsburg, NY: www.calvertvaux.org. The New York Landmarks Conservancy is a non-profit organization "dedicated to preserving and protecting" New York's unique architectural heritage, https://nylandmarks.org/

General Admission: $15; General Society Members, CVPA Members, NYLC members and Senior Citizens: $10; Students: $5

Advance registration required. The General Society Library, 20 West 44th Street, New York City,

www. generalsociety.org