Frederick Law Olmsted
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| Frederick Law Olmsted | |
| Born | 1822; Hartford, Connecticut, |
| Died | 1903; |
| Notes | |
| At Great Buildings | http://www.GreatBuildings.com/architects/Frederick_Law_Olmsted.html |
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[edit] Works in Alphabetical Order
- American University, Washington, District of Columbia
- Arnold Arboretum, Boston, Massachusetts
- Boston's Olmsted Park System, Boston, Massachusetts; also know as the Emerald Necklace (Back Bay Fens, Muddy River, Olmsted (Leverett Park), Jamaica Park, Arborway, Franklin Park, The Riverway)
- Beardsley Park, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1884
- Belle Isle, Detroit, Michigan, landscaped in the 1880s
- Biltmore Estate, at Asheville, North Carolina, circa 1885. GreatBuildings page
- Branch Brook Park, Newark, New Jersey, 1900 redesign
- Buffalo Parks System, Buffalo, New York
- Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (1895-1927)
- Buttonwood Park, New Bedford, Massachusetts
- Cadwalader Park, Trenton, New Jersey
- Central Park, at New York, New York, 1853 to 1856. GreatBuildings page
- Cherokee Park, Louisville, Kentucky — see Olmsted Park System, Louisville, Kentucky
- Civic Center Park, Denver, Colorado
- Colgate University, Hamilton, New York
- Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (1867-73)
- Cushing Island, Maine
- Downing Park, Newburgh, New York
- Druid Hills, Georgia
- Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York
- Elmwood Cemetery, Detroit, Michigan
- Fairmount Park, Riverside, California
- Florham, former estate of Hamitlon and Florence (Vanderbilt) Twombly. Now the campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University, Florham Park, New Jersey
- Forest Park, Queens, New York
- Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, New York
- Fort Tryon Park, New York City
- Franklin Park, Boston, Massachusetts
- Gallaudet University, Washington, District of Columbia (1866)
- Genesee Valley Park, Rochester, New York
- Glen Magna Farms, Danvers, Massachusetts
- Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York
- Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts
- Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania
- Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1925-31)
- Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania (1925-32)
- Highland Park, Rochester, New York
- Humboldt Park, Chicago, Illinois
- The Institute of Living, Hartford, Connecticut, 1860s
- Iowa State University Ames, Iowa (1906)
- Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois originally South Park,
- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (1903-19)
- Kykuit, Westchester, New York , from 1897 (Gardens, Rockefeller family estate),
- Lake Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey (1883-1901)
- Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, Portland, Oregon
- Louisville's Olmsted Park System, Louisville, Kentucky
- Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York
- Manor Park, Larchmont, New York
- Maplewood Park, Rochester, New York
- Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
- Middlesex School, Concord, Massachusetts (1901)
- Montebello Park, St. Catharines, Ontario
- Morningside Park, New York, New York (Manhattan)
- Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
- Mount Royal Park, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, inaugurated in 1876
- Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California, dedicated in 1865
- Nay Aug Park, Scranton, Pennsylvania
- New York State Hospital for the Insane, Buffalo, New York
- Newton Country Day School, Newton, Massachusetts (1927)
- Niagara Reservation, Niagara Falls, New York, (now Niagara Falls State Park) dedicated in 1885
- North Park, Fall River, Massachusetts (1901)
- Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, New York
- Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon (1890's)
- Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (1891-1965)
- Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Georgia
- various parks in Portland, Oregon
- Pomfret School, Pomfret, Connecticut
- Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York, finished 1868
- Public Pleasure Grounds, San Francisco, California
- Riverside Drive, New York, New York
- Riverside Park, Manhattan, New York
- Riverside Park, at Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (formerly River Park)
- Ruggles Park, Fall River, Massachusetts
- Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut
- Seaside Park, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1860s
- Seneca Park, Rochester, New York
- various parks in Seattle, Washington
- Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts (1891-1909)
- Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Washington, District of Columbia
- South Park,, Fall River, Massachusetts (now Kennedy Park)
- Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (1886-1914)
- Sudbrook Park, Baltimore, Maryland, 1889
- Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut (1872-94)
- Tyler Park, Lowell, Massachusetts. Smallest park Olmsted and associates designed
- The Rockery, Easton, Massachusetts
- United States Capitol grounds, Washington, District of Columbia
- University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California (1865)
- University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1901-10)
- University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (1925)
- University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho (1908)
- University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana (1929-32)
- University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island (1894-1903)
- University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (1902-20)
- Utah State Capitol grounds masterplan, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Town of Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, 1895
- Vanderbilt Mausoleum, New York City, New York
- Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (1896-1932)
- Washington Park, Albany, New York
- Washington Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (formerly West Park)
- Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (1865-99)
- Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
- Westmount Park, Westmount, Quebec
- Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts (1902-12)
- Woodburn Circle, West Virginia University
- World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893
- World's End, Hingham, Massachusetts (formerly the John Brewer Estate), 1889
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (1874-81)
[edit] Discussion
(b. Hartford, Connecticut, 1822; d. 1903)
April 26, 1822 to August 28, 1903.
"Olmsted also had a significant career in journalism. In 1850 he traveled to Europe to visit public gardens, and subsequently published Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England in 1852. Interested in the slave economy, he was commissioned by the New York Daily Times (now the New York Times) to embark on an extensive research journey through the American South and Texas from 1852 to 1857. Olmsted took the view that the practice of slavery was, besides being morally odious, also expensive and economically inefficient. His dispatches were collected into multiple volumes which remain vivid, first-person social documents of the pre-war South. The last of these, "Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom" (1861), published during the first six months of the American Civil War, helped inform and galvanize antislavery sentiment in New England. Olmsted also co-founded the magazine The Nation in 1865."
— Frederick Law Olmsted article at Wikipedia.org
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[edit] References
[edit] External Links
- National Association for Olmsted Parks
- "How to Create a Park", by Frederick Law Olmsted, ArchitectureWeek No. 484, 2010.0728, p C1.1.
