Lesson 12-Lions and Tigers and Bears . Founding Commissioners of Centralpare The founding commissioners: the city officials who were appointed to establish Central Park Commissioners are officials in government, esp those in charge of departments. The founding commissioners of Central Park were the landscape architects frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux The two designed and oversaw the first-phase construction of the Park which began in 1858 and ended in 1878 W BTL E To be continued on the next page BACK NEXTW B T L E Lesson 12 – Lions and Tigers and Bears • The founding commissioners: the city officials who were appointed to establish Central Park. Commissioners are officials in government, esp. those in charge of departments. The founding commissioners of Central Park were the landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. The two designed and oversaw the first-phase construction of the Park which began in 1858 and ended in 1878. I. Founding Commissioners of Central Park To be continued on the next page