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Of the seven sites mentioned in their February, 1860 proposal, a plot centered on Mount Prospect was the most ambitious.
Under plans prepared by Egbert Viele in 1861, this " Mount Prospect Park " was to straddle Flatbush Avenue and include the eponymous Prospect Hill and territory now occupied by the Brooklyn Public Library, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and Brooklyn Museum.
By the end of 1860, land had been purchased for Viele's plan, but the Civil War stopped further activity.
According to Lancaster ( 1972 ), the delay prompted some reflection ; James S. T. Stranahan, then President of the Brooklyn Board of Park Commissioners, invited Calvert Vaux to review Viele's plans early in 1865.
Vaux found the division of the park by Flatbush Avenue problematic, thought that the park should have a lake, and urged for southward expansion beyond the city limits and into the then independent town of Flatbush.

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