Tag: calvertvaux

  • August 24, 2016 at 04:31PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: Calvert Vaux and Thomas Wisedell’s fanciful Oriental Pavilion in Prospect Park opened in 1874, but the original burned down in 1974 and was rebuilt in 1987. It’s now cordoned off with water damage to the copper roof and slated for a restoration. Looking forward to going inside and looking up at the stained-glass…

  • August 24, 2016 at 04:31PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: Calvert Vaux and Thomas Wisedell’s fanciful Oriental Pavilion in Prospect Park opened in 1874, but the original burned down in 1974 and was rebuilt in 1987. It’s now cordoned off with water damage to the copper roof and slated for a restoration. Looking forward to going inside and looking up at the stained-glass…

  • August 24, 2016 at 04:31PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: Calvert Vaux and Thomas Wisedell’s fanciful Oriental Pavilion in Prospect Park opened in 1874, but the original burned down in 1974 and was rebuilt in 1987. It’s now cordoned off with water damage to the copper roof and slated for a restoration. Looking forward to going inside and looking up at the stained-glass…

  • August 24, 2016 at 04:31PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: Calvert Vaux and Thomas Wisedell’s fanciful Oriental Pavilion in Prospect Park opened in 1874, but the original burned down in 1974 and was rebuilt in 1987. It’s now cordoned off with water damage to the copper roof and slated for a restoration. Looking forward to going inside and looking up at the stained-glass…

  • August 24, 2016 at 04:31PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: Calvert Vaux and Thomas Wisedell’s fanciful Oriental Pavilion in Prospect Park opened in 1874, but the original burned down in 1974 and was rebuilt in 1987. It’s now cordoned off with water damage to the copper roof and slated for a restoration. Looking forward to going inside and looking up at the stained-glass…

  • July 18, 2016 at 03:51PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: A cast iron light pole that replicates a New York City gas light in Abingdon Square (actually a triangle) in the West Village. #NicksLunchboxService #abingdonsquare @abingdon_square #westvillage #gaslight #castironlamp #intheshade #halfmast #art #calvertvaux (at Abingdon Square Park) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/29IUpYS via IFTTT

  • July 18, 2016 at 03:51PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: A cast iron light pole that replicates a New York City gas light in Abingdon Square (actually a triangle) in the West Village. #NicksLunchboxService #abingdonsquare @abingdon_square #westvillage #gaslight #castironlamp #intheshade #halfmast #art #calvertvaux (at Abingdon Square Park) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/29IUpYS via IFTTT

  • July 18, 2016 at 03:51PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: A cast iron light pole that replicates a New York City gas light in Abingdon Square (actually a triangle) in the West Village. #NicksLunchboxService #abingdonsquare @abingdon_square #westvillage #gaslight #castironlamp #intheshade #halfmast #art #calvertvaux (at Abingdon Square Park) from Nick’s Lunchbox Service on Tumblr http://ift.tt/29IUpYS via IFTTT

  • May 10, 2016 at 03:38PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: The “secret” view from the Promontory in the Hallett Nature Sanctuary in @centralparknyc, with newly built and dedicated rustic seating and fencing like Calvert Vaux was known for. Check out the story about it in the @nytimes today. As an aside, I’m surprised that Robert Moses (who wanted to build an expressway through…

  • February 14, 2016 at 04:05PM

    Lunchtime #drawing: Inside away from the cold with stunning stained glass windows in the Jefferson Market Library, originally a courthouse designed in a Victorian Gothic Style by Frederick Clark Withers and Calvert Vaux, built 1875-77. In the late 1950s it became unused, and Greenwich Village community members fought off a planned demolition. It reopened in…