Calvert Vaux

B. Description of the Community Economic: Holiday Hill is located in Prospect, Connecticut. Prospect is known as a middleclass town within Connecticut with people employed in construction, manufacturing, retail trade, administration, waste management, remediation, and health care. Demographic: Prospect, Connecticut has a population of 8,983, with 92.53% Caucasian, 2.33 % African-American, 2.66% Hispanic/Latino, .64% Asian/Pacific, and 1.84% is other of multi-race. The median age for Prospect is 44.8 years of age, which is 19.08% of the population. Approximately 65.5% of the population is married. Prospect’s residents are generally well educated. Thirty-one percent of residents having a college graduate degree, 14.5% have a bachelor’s degree, and 8.3% have a master’s degree. (http://www.epodunk.com and www.cerc.com) Geographic: Prospect is located within New Haven County and is bordered by Naugatuck, Cheshire, Waterbury, Southington, and Hamden. Prospect typically experiences hot and humid summers, while the winters can be very cold reaching far below freezing. The average high temperature of Prospect for this past summer was 79 degrees and the average low of last year’s winter was 24 degrees. (www.weather.com) Socioeconomic: The average price of a home in Prospect is $260,500, compared to the average cost of $237,700 in Connecticut. Prospect home values have declined -1.0% over the past year and it is predicted that they will fall -0.2% within the next year. The…

admired the work of the English Landscape School of Art, and championed the idea of including nature as part of architecture. He was one of the pioneers of landscape architecture in America. In 1851, he was appointed by President Fillmore to design and superintend the work of arranging the land about the Capitol, White House and Smithsonian Institution into public gardens and promenades. Unfortunately, he died at the age of 36 in a fire while racing the steamship “Henry Clay” on the Hudson…

when compared to works like those of his mentor. His works mostly stayed at home. A fascinating thing is that he was a self- taught artist. He became an influential member of the National Academy of Design. Despite this, he remained a humble man, commuting between Rondout and his Manhattan gallery, in a building that was designed for artists by Richard Morris Hunt. A collection of photographs and memorabilia that is rarely seen form part of the exhibition. They serve as an astounding…

Central Park Travel Guide In the center of the Manhattan borough of New York, visitors will discover a storied and idyllic green space known as Central Park. This highly famed attraction was first built in 1857, and originally only encompassed 778 acres. After a time, the popularity of the park forced an expansion to the current 843 acres that it now holds. As a celebrated collaboration between the architect Calvert Vaux and landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted, Central Park is the most…

Arboretum includes over 300 acres of undeveloped woodland with twenty-three endangered, old-growth trees in its 733 acre, green, urban space in southern Ohio. “As our cities continued to grow, they engulfed these plots of land until the cemeteries…were massive chunks of green space often smack in the hearts of our major metropolitan areas…The result is a generation of gated, astonishing landscapes…ready for…urban dwellers to seek out nature in the city” (Williams). “But it was the cemeteries'…

In many of his poems he described what it was like to live in New York and experience diversity everywhere you went along the island. Whitman’s purpose was to bring people together and create some order out of all the conflicts people were having at the time. Walt Whitman displayed the bright side of the immigration while many other writers during this time only illustrated the negative and dark things about New York’s diversity. As the city continued to grow citizens realized there was no…