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Son of Calvert Vaux, he was named after his father’s mentor and former partner, Andrew Jackson Downing. Shortly after his birth, his father and Fredrick Law Olmsted, Sr., began collaboration on their plan for Central Park. Vaux attended boarding school with Olmsted’s stepsons, John Charles and Owen. By the mid-1880s he joined his father’s office, collaborating as well with architect and engineer George Radford and landscape architect and horticulturist Samuel Parsons, Jr. As a senior member in Vaux & Company, he designed the landscape for Wilderstein in Rhinebeck, New York. Like his father, Vaux practiced both as an architect and a landscape architect, designing parks and cemeteries, and institutional, residential, and recreational grounds. He often w