Description: New York City - Central Park Mall: The Central Park Mall leading to the Bethesda Terrace provides the only purely formal feature in the naturalistic original plan of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux for Central Park, New York City. The Mall, designated the "Promenade" in Olmsted and Vaux's "Greensward" plan of 1857, was called the "open air hall of reception" in the text that accompanied the plan in the competition. "A 'grand promenade' was 'an essential feature of a metropolitan park', the designers acknowledged, yet its formal symmetry— like all architecture in the park— must be rendered 'subservient' to the natural 'view as the ultimatum of interest'", Roy Rosenzweig and Elizabeth Blackmar reported in their history of Central Park. It was designed so that a carriage could disgorge its passengers at the south end, then drive round and pick them up again overlooking Bethesda Terrace, whose view of the Lake and Ramble formed the "ultimatum of interest" in Olmsted and Vaux's vision. This Undivided Back Era (1901-07) postcard offers a period view of the park with men and women in period clothes, buggies and parasols. The card has a small crease to its lower right hand corner. C.V. III.
Price: 8.5 USD
Location: Brooklyn, New York
End Time: 2024-03-15T01:10:44.000Z
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Continent: North America
Region: New York
Central Park Mall: to Bethesda Terrace
Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux: Architects
Country: USA
Horse & Buggy: Long Dresses & Hats
Suits & Bolas: benches
Type: Printed (Lithograph)
Mall: Bethesda Terrace
Features: Panoramic
City/Region: New York City
Postage Condition: Unposted
Era: Undivided Back (c. 1901-1907)
