Carl Francis Pilat

Pilat drew landscape designs for estates of C. H. Dodge, Spencer Trask, E. M. Shepard, E. K. Cone and the Baroness von Zimmerman, some of the gardens at what later became the Reeves-Reed Arboretum in Summit, New Jersey, and the Theodore Vail memorial[2] in Parsippany, New Jersey.

[5] He worked as a landscape architect of the New York City Parks Department for five years.

When work on Central Park slowed down, Pilat became the chief landscape gardener of the city of New York.

[6] Later he designed numerous estates in New Jersey, Long Island and in Westchester County, New York.

[5] In 1914 Pilat completed the plans for a park along the shore of the East River at Astoria.