Frederick law olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted advocated for government to protect the public’s right to nature.

The designer of New York's Central Park believed that public parks were 'democratic spaces' belonging to all citizens, and aren't we glad he did?

Central Park, NYC. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Father of Landscape Architecture.

If you have had an opportunity to visit the Biltmore estate in Asheville, North Carolina, or even seen photographs of the property, it is easy to be mesmerized by the

Riverside, Illinois was the first planned suburb, built based on a plan by the famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmstead.

Farmer, merchant, seaman, journalist — nothing on Frederick Law Olmsted’s résumé before 1857, when he turned 35, even hinted that he would become America’s foremost landscape architect. Yet throughout 2022, to mark the bicentennial of Olmsted’s birth on April 26, people will gather in parks he designed all across the country — including Downing Park […]

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View full sizeFrederick Law OlmstedTo the natural oaks and sweet gums growing on the site, Olmsted added conifers of many types — firs, pines, cedars. This concentration has produced a small “boreal forest” in temperate Staten Island, and it is...

Frederick Law Olmsted was born in Hartford, CT, a member of the eighth generation of his family to live in that city. His mother died when he was four, and from the age of seven he received his schooling mostly from ministers in outlying towns, with whom he lived. His father, a successful dry-goods merchant, […]