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Central Park

Location

Central Park New York City, NY
United States
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Location: 
Central Park
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Description

Central Park offers New Yorkers and visitors alike a bucolic respite that has shaped the city’s history in terms of planning and parks recreation. The origins of the park emerged as early as the 1840s, when wealthy New Yorkers traveled to Europe and visited the beautiful parks in Paris and London. When they returned home, they recognized New York City lacked these amenities1.

  • 1. Rosenzweig, Roy and Elizabeth Blackmar. The Park and The People: A History of Central Park. Cornell University Press, Ithaca: 1992, p. 15.

Andrew Haswell Green

Sometimes listed as Andrew Green.

Biography

Andrew Haswell Green was a lawyer, reformer, public official, master planner, and a visionary. He was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1820 to a prosperous, professional family. As a young man, he received a commercial education while working as an apprentice in a leading dry goods establishment. At the age of twenty-four, he began to study law at the firm of Samuel J. Tilden. Green soon became interested in civic affairs.

Associated Archives: 
American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society