Parish
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions
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Parish (Gk., dwelling near). A geographically designated area having its own church and minister; hence the people and work of that area. From this derives the (usually pejorative) sense of ‘parochial’, being too narrowly or locally concerned.
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Vaux in Vogue.
Magazine article from: Town & Country; 10/1/1999; ; 566 words
; ...rather than sell off--architect Calvert Vaux's Tomes Higgins House (with its...grade A Greenwich real estate). Vaux is best known as the designer (with...have worked their particular magic on Vaux's formal reception rooms and other...
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More than natural grace.
Magazine article from: New Criterion; 2/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...hundred-tenth Street.) In fact, Calvert Vaux's and Frederick Law Olmsted...rages between those who believe Calvert Vaux has the true claim on these parks...Mr. McLanghlin's mentioning Calvert Vaux only once in the book's lengthy...
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In the park with Fred The man who brought country to city -- a biography of Frederick Law Olmsted
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/23/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...may have learned from his partner, architect Calvert Vaux. Although both Olmsted and Vaux always said that their contributions were equal...heart of" it, Rybczynski writes of the Olmsted/Vaux plan. "Vaux and Olmsted took great pains to...
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It's Christmastime in the city - Beating NYC's holiday rush is like a walk in the park.
Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald; 12/4/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...superintendent, and the English architect Calvert Vaux, who together won an 1857 competition...Conservancy's docent program, Olmsted and Vaux's plan was chosen because it blocked...planned and contributes to Olmsted and Vaux's vision of a pastoral retreat from...
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Switcheroo
Magazine article from: The Village Voice; 2/13/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Disappearing Sauces (and Architect) Vaux began life a year ago as a fancier...s. So the place was retooled as Vaux Bistro. And luckily, the owners...enjoy ri favorite dish. Englishman Calvert Vaux (pronounced "vawks"), the lesser...
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Morrison Heckscher, On the Park.
Newspaper article from: The New York Observer (New York, NY); 3/25/2008; 700+ words
; ...land. A lot of people know about Frederick Law Olmsted. But can you explain the role of Calvert Vaux in the park's conception and design? Calvert Vaux had worked with Downing, the father of American landscape gardening, and if Downing had...
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Muestran su genesis.(Cultura)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 8/2/2003; 700+ words
; ...centro de la exposicin es la presentacin original de Calvert Vaux y Frederick Law Olmsted que, bajo el ttulo de Greensward Plan, fue declarada ganadora del concurso. Calvert Vaux (1824-1903) creci en Inglaterra, mientras que la...
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Central Park: celebrating New York's 843-acre arcadia throughout all the glorious seasons of its 150th year.
Magazine article from: Town & Country; 12/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...supply for the city. Olmsted and Vaux's sunken transverse roads are the...architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux (pronounced "vox") turned to for...plan for the park. (Olmsted and Vaux ate the heroes of this story, as...
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The Park and the People: A History of Central Park.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 11/16/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...Frederick Law Olmsted and his partner Calvert Vaux stepped into the early tumult of claims and intentions. Olmsted and Vaux's Greensward Plan for the park is...interpretations not only in stressing Vaux's neglected but equal contribution...
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Strawberry fields forever
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 6/9/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the Greensward Plan by Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Olmsted, a young Connecticut Yankee...superintendent and architect-in-chief. Vaux, a bearded, London-born Victorian...s business partner. Olmsted and Vaux's Greensward Plan envisaged a rural...
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Calvert Vaux
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Calvert Vaux , 1824-95, American landscape architect, b. London. He emigrated (1850) to the United States, and assisted A. J. Downing...
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Vaux, Calvert
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Vaux, Calvert (1824–95). London-born...very influential. Following this success, Vaux prepared further plans for landscapes...designed many of the architectural features in Vaux's parks, including the Ruskinian Gothic...
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Olmsted, Frederick Law
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...Farmer in England (1852). With Calvert Vaux (who had been associated with Downing...National Parks movement. Again with Vaux he designed Prospect Park, Brooklyn...Palo Alto, CA (1886), worked with Vaux on the Niagara Falls Reservation...
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Landscape Architecture
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...1858 by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, who were then designing and constructing...York's Central Park. Olmsted and Vaux may have coined the term, but they...parks after 1850. After Olmsted and Vaux set the standard with their designs...
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Frederick Law Olmsted
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...appointed superintendent of what became Central Park. He and Calvert Vaux then won the design competition for the park, and in...California. When Olmsted returned to New York in 1865, he and Vaux were reappointed landscape architects for Central Park...
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