<Tr> <Th> Added to NRHP </Th> <Td> October 15, 1966 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Designated NHL </Th> <Td> May 23, 1963 </Td> </Tr> <P> Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan, New York City . Central Park is the most visited urban park in the United States, with 40 million visitors in 2013, and one of the most filmed locations in the world . </P> <P> The park was established in 1857 on 778 acres (315 ha) of city - owned land . In 1858, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, a landscape architect and an architect, respectively, won a design competition to improve and expand the park with a plan they titled the "Greensward Plan". Construction began the same year and the park's first area was opened to the public in the winter of 1858 . Construction continued during the American Civil War farther north, and was expanded to its current size of 843 acres (341 ha) in 1873 . </P>

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