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4 unusual facts about Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.


Fort Tryon Park

He hired the Olmsted Brothers firm – and in particular Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., son of the designer of Central Park – to plan a park that he would give to the city.

Lake Park, Florida

It was designed and planned by Dr. John Nolan of Boston, Massachusetts, and the Olmsted Brothers, the landscaping firm of Frederick Law Olmsted's sons, Frederick Jr and John Charles.

Pacific Electric Railroad Bridge

Designed by Irving Gill and built in 1913 as part of the original layout of the city as determined by Jared Sidney Torrance and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., the bridge became the city's second entry in the National Register of Historic Places on July 13, 1989 after Torrance High School.

Roland Park, Baltimore

The early phases of the neighborhood were designed by Edward Bouton and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.


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#Replace the Riverside Expressway from I-65 to 22nd Street with an Olmsted-styled parkway, similar to already existing roads like Eastern Parkway in Louisville.

A Clearing in the Distance

A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century is a biography of 19th century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, published in 1999, by Canadian architect, professor and writer Witold Rybczynski.

Akerly Homestead

The Poillon-Akerly-Omsted Farmhouse was a large farm and modest Dutch farmhouse on one of the higher hills overlooking Raritan Bay, and Sandy Hook in the distance on Staten Island purchased by Olmsted's father and given to Frederick Law Olmsted in 1848 to grow crops, plant trees and clear for pasture for livestock.

Arborway

It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in the 1890s as the south most carriage road in a series of parkways connecting parks from Boston Common in downtown Boston to Franklin Park in Roxbury.

Bakersville, North Carolina

Traveler Frederick Law Olmsted passed through Bakersville in the early 1850s and noted that the "town" consisted of only a couple of cabins within a quarter-mile radius.

Berwick Academy

Built in 1894 by George Albert Clough in the Richardsonian Romanesque style, landscaped by Frederick Law Olmsted, and built complete with electricity and state-of-the-art science labs, it remains the main Academy building today.

Blockhouse, Central Park

Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the designers of Central Park, treated Blockhouse No. 1 as a picturesque ruin, romantically overrun with vines and Alpine shrubbery.

Boston and Albany Railroad

At the same time, the B&A hired landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to design the grounds of several stations and to work with the railroad to establish a landscape beautification program for other stations.

Cazenovia Creek

In 1897, Frederick Law Olmsted, a landscape architect, drew up plans for a park near the south city line of Buffalo, New York.

Cleveland and Copeland

They were responsible for Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Concord, Massachusetts, and Samuel Colt's Armsmear in Hartford, Connecticut, as well as a design for New York City's Central Park which lost out to Frederick Law Olmsted.

Henry Hudson Parkway

The covered portion is partially used for the highway and also expands the Riverside Park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.

Katherine Prescott Wormeley

During the American Civil War, she, with noted landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted and the Rev. Henry Bellows, played a role in the work of the United States Sanitary Commission, a civilian agency set up to coordinate the volunteer efforts of women and men who wanted to contribute to the war effort.

Landscape architect

A few of the many talented and influential landscape architects that have been based in The United States are: Frederick Law Olmsted, Beatrix Farrand, Jens Jensen, Ian McHarg, Thomas Church, and Lawrence Halprin.

Our New West. Records of Travel between the Mississippi River and the Pacific Ocean

In addition to his enthusiasm for the West, Bowles urges the preservation of Niagara Falls (probably influenced by Frederick Law Olmsted, whom he met in Yosemite Valley) and of regions of the Adirondacks and Maine (see pp. 384–85).

Richard C. Lee United States Courthouse

In 1910, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and architect Cass Gilbert, two of the most prominent designers working in America at the time, produced a city planning document for New Haven.

Richardson Olmsted Complex

The large Medina red sandstone and brick hospital buildings were designed in 1870 in the Kirkbride Plan by architect Henry Hobson Richardson with grounds by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

Sudbrook Park

Known most for designing well-known urban projects like Central Park in New York City, Olmsted conceived this "suburban village" with curved roads and open green spaces, traits that set the community apart from its contemporaries.

Theodora Kimball Hubbard

Renowned landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of a network of parks known as the "Emerald Necklace" in Boston, Central Park in New York, and idyllic greenspaces across the United States is given special acknowledgment in the preface of the published classification scheme, for having contributed many constructive suggestions.


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