This image is from a postcard circa 1906 of a view of the landscape at Downing Park. The park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the last project they ever worked on together. They both agreed to work on the park only if Newburgh agreed to name it in honor their mentor, Andrew Jackson Downing. Mr. Olmsted is known as the father of landscape architecture in the United States and shared many of the egalitarian values that Mr. Downing evoked in his landscaping plans.
