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Among the employees who worked in Hunt's firm was Franco-American architect and fellow Ecole des Beaux Arts graduate Emmanuel Louis Masqueray when went on to be Chief of Design at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.

Hunt often employed sculptor Karl Bitter to enrich his designs.

Both Hunt and his frequent collaborator, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, were associated with the City Beautiful Movement, and Hunt was the first president of the Municipal Art Society that grew out of the movement.

Nevertheless, Olmsted, an advocate of " naturalistic " architecture and landscape design famously clashed with Hunt in 1863 over Hunt's proposal for " Scholar's Gate ", a formal entrance to Central Park at 60th Street and Fifth Avenue.

According to Central Park historian Sarah Cedar Miller, Central Park Commissioner and influential New Yorker Andrew Haswell Green, was a major supporter of Hunt.

When the park commissioners adopted Hunt's design, Olmsted and his partner Calvert Vaux protested and resigned their positions with the Central Park project.

Hunt's plan for Scholar's Gate was never built and Olmsted and Vaux subsequently rejoined the project.

Nevertheless, there were to be other reminders of Hunt in Central Park.