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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A Clearing in the Distance (redirect from A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century)
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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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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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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Emerald Necklace (redirect from Olmsted Park System (Boston))
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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completed project on the Cornell West Campus that was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Grand Terrace High School This disambiguation page lists articles...
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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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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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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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Witness Trees (section The Olmsted Elm)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Forest Park (Springfield, Massachusetts) (redirect from Olmsted Forest Park)
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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Central Park (category Frederick Law Olmsted works)
778-acre (315 ha) park approved in 1853. In 1858, landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux won a design competition for the park with their...
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term "landscape architect" was used as a professional title by Frederick Law Olmsted in the United States in 1863[citation needed] and Andrew Jackson...
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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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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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Calvert Vaux (section Collaboration with Olmsted)
English-American architect and landscape designer. He and his protégé Frederick Law Olmsted designed parks such as Central Park and Prospect Park in New York...
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public corporation, the Mariposa Company, and sold stock. In 1863, Frederick Law Olmsted, later the renowned American landscape architect, came from New...
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