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    Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He...
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    Olmsted Point in Yosemite and Olmsted Island at Great Falls of the Potomac River in Maryland are named after him. The son of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr...
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    Olmsted (1852–1920) and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (1870–1957), sons of the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. The Olmsted Brothers inherited the...
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  • architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, and later of his sons John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (known as the Olmsted Brothers), produced...
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    Charles Olmsted (September 14, 1852 – February 24, 1920) was an American landscape architect. The nephew and adopted son of Frederick Law Olmsted, he worked...
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    northwest of the main house. Members of the Olmsted family occupied the main house until 1936, when Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. moved to Elkton, Maryland, renting...
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  • Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century is a biography of 19th-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, published...
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  • home of the famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted in a bid to improve his failing mental health. Olmsted, then retired and severely affected by...
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  • Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) was a landscape architect and public administrator. Frederick Olmsted may also refer to: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (1870–1957)...
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    Brookline, Massachusetts. It was designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, and gets its name from the way the planned chain appears to hang...
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    Island, New York City. The house was purchased by Frederick Law Olmsted's father and given to Olmsted in 1848 to grow crops, plant trees and clear for...
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    Frederick Erskine Olmsted, also known as Fritz Olmsted, (November 8, 1872 – February 19, 1925) was an American forester and one of the founders of American...
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    Great Britain through most of the American War of Independence Frederick Law Olmsted, American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public...
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    Island, New York City. It was designed by Richard Morris Hunt and Frederick Law Olmsted in the late 19th century, when the Vanderbilt family was the wealthiest...
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    architect. The title, "landscape architect", was first used by Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of New York City's Central Park in Manhattan and numerous...
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    through the recovery of the ideas of the picturesque. His essay Frederick Law Olmsted and the Dialectical Landscape was written in 1973 after Smithson...
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    was present when Frederick Law Olmsted bought the property in 1883, which he called "Fairsted". Olmsted and his son, John Charles Olmsted, had removed all...
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    Landmark District, designated in 1996 for its landscape design (by Frederick Law Olmsted) and its significance in the history of golf in the United States...
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    Laing Meason in 1828 and was first used as a professional title by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1863. During the latter 19th century, the term landscape architect...
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  • II, hired architect Richard Morris Hunt and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to construct Biltmore Estate on 125,000 acres (51,000 ha) near Asheville...
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    Henry Hobson Richardson in concert with the famed landscape team of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in the late 1800s, incorporating a system of treatment...
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    community) in the United States, designed in 1869 by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted. The village was incorporated in 1875. The Riverside Landscape Architecture...
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    Frederick Law Olmsted School #156 is a high school located in Buffalo, New York. Named for the Kensington neighborhood it is located in, the building...
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    by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. in 1888 at the request of the Swampscott Land Trust. The 130-acre estate had belonged to E. Redington Mudge. Olmsted’s plan...
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    Biltmore Estate (category Frederick Law Olmsted works)
    setting for his home and employed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to design the grounds. Olmsted was not impressed with the condition of the 125,000...
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    Page - Olmsted Online". "Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing America". Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 11 May 2023. "Olmsted Designed...
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    S. Sanitary Commission (1956) online edition Olmsted, Frederick Law. The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted. Vol. 4: Defending the Union: The Civil War and...
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    North America (1841). This led to its adoption by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. Olmsted and a man named George Oskar gave a different slant...
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  • Olmsted may refer to: Olmsted (name) Olmsted Air Force Base, inactive since 1969 Olmsted, Illinois Olmsted County, Minnesota Olmsted Falls, Ohio Olmsted...
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    Central Park (category Frederick Law Olmsted works)
    778-acre (315 ha) park approved in 1853. In 1857, landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition for the park with their...
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