Aerial of Prospect Park with the Manhattan skyline in the distance. Located in Brooklyn, Prospect Park, was the main focus of Frederick Law

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Aerial of Prospect Park with the Manhattan skyline in the distance. Located in Brooklyn, Prospect Park, was the main focus of Frederick Law Olmsted's life from 1865 to 1873. As with many of his landscape designed projects, he devised the park's layout with Calvert carved the 60 acre lake out of a hilly section of the terrain that existed and used a large pump to fill the area with water.

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Size: 5271px × 3508px
Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States of America
Photo credit: © Melissa Farlow / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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