Did Prospect Park construction start July 1 1866?

Stranahan asked Vaux to sketch a layout for the park, who then reached out to Olmsted, finishing up his work with the United States Sanitary Commission. Construction at Prospect Park began July 1st, 1866, with Stranahan serving as President of the Prospect Park Commission.

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LANDSCAPE connoisseurs sometimes make the glib observation that Central Park is just a rough draft for Olmsted & Vaux's even more masterful Prospect Park, created in 1866-1874 in Brooklyn.

Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux debuted Prospect Park to the Brooklyn masses in 1867. Though Olmsted and Vaux had already designed Central Park, they considered this their masterpiece, and much of the pair’s innovative landscape design is still on display across all 585 acres.

Prospect Park would be for everyone, ... Olmsted and Vaux designed an elaborate infrastructure for Prospect Park, and construction began on July 1, 1866, under their supervision....

argued that a park in Brooklyn ... layout for Stranahan. Vaux convinced · Olmsted to join the effort, and construction of the park began on July 1, 1866 ......

Vaux recruited Olmsted and formally presented the plan in February 1866. The revised plan was accepted by May. Construction started the following month, and initial work focused on draining the land. Then, the roads, bridle paths, and walks within Prospect Park were graded and individual features ...

Olmsted and Vaux were appointed landscape architects of Prospect Park on May 29, 1866. Work commenced July 1 of the same year and continued through 1873, when the financial panic halted construction.

An 1868 report to the Brooklyn Park Commissioners noted that in July alone there had been more than 100,000 visitors to the incomplete park. At the turn of the 20th century, Olmsted and Vaux’s original concept of Prospect Park as a pastoral retreat was challenged by planners who were influenced ...