books.google.com - After beginning his career as an architect in London, Calvert Vaux (1824-1895) came to the Hudson River valley in 1850 at the invitation of Andrew Jackson Downing, the reform-minded writer on houses and gardens. As Downing's partner, and after Downing's death in 1852, Vaux designed country and suburban...http://books.google.com/books/about/Country_Park_City.html?id=7OrWFpgZ9-kC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareCountry, Park & City