The Olmsted–Beil House is a large farm and modest Dutch farmhouse at 4515 Hylan Boulevard (near Woods of Arden Road) in the South Shore of Staten Island...
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architecture in the United States. Olmsted was famous for co-designing many well-known urban parks with his partner Calvert Vaux. Olmsted and Vaux's first project...
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Dorp Beach Northerleigh Park Ocean Breeze Park Old Place Creek Park Olmsted-Beil House Park Reed's Basket Willow Swamp Park Richmond Terrace Wetlands Sailors'...
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Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) – landscape architect known for Central Park and Brooklyn’s Prospect Park; lived in Annadale's Olmsted–Beil House Frederick...
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Hylan Boulevard in Eltingville named Olmsted–Beil House, previously owned by Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted. In 1893, Wiman went into bankruptcy...
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the Education of the Blind. Bradstreet Press. "Owners". FRIENDS OF OLMSTED-BEIL HOUSE. Retrieved 2023-09-24. The Medical Repository. T. & J. Swords. 1806...
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74.1579°W / 40.5318; -74.1579 (Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. Farmhouse) Now known as the Olmsted-Beil House. 34 Our Lady of Mount Carmel Grotto November 2...
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Central Park (category Frederick Law Olmsted works)
was a "triumphant success". Olmsted often clashed with the park commissioners, notably with Chief Commissioner Green. Olmsted resigned in June 1862, and...
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feature of the Greensward Plan, created by Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted. Olmsted and Vaux were re-hired to their positions in mid-1865 after quitting...
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an illusion of an expansive space, Olmsted and Vaux designed the paths in Prospect Park to be meandering. In Olmsted and Vaux's final plan for the park...
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Rockefeller hired the Olmsted Brothers firm, particularly Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., son of the designer of Central Park. Olmsted's design capitalized on...
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needs. After the skin was completed, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, co-designer of Manhattan's Central Park and Brooklyn's Prospect Park,...
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Eastern Parkway (category Frederick Law Olmsted works)
Landmarks Preservation Commission 1978, p. 3. Olmsted, Frederick Law; Twombly, Robert C (2010). Frederick Law Olmsted: essential texts. New York: W.W. Norton...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson. Some years later, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, famed for his design of urban parks throughout the U.S., settled for a...
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Brooklyn Botanic Garden (section Palm House)
Prospect Park, Prospect Park, and the Brooklyn Museum. Designed by the Olmsted Brothers, BBG holds over 14,000 taxa of plants and has over 800,000 visitors...
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outlet. A postcard claims it was widened circa 1905. In 1911, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux completed a redesign of the park, which was then renamed...
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selected Frederick Law Olmsted, a park commissioner who had also designed Central Park, to redesign the park and avenue. Olmsted devised a plan that would...
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and in 1871, James Stranahan commissioned Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted – architects for Central and Prospect parks – to submit a plan for the...
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an American Revolutionary War hero, it was redesigned by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, architects of Central Park and Prospect Park, in 1867...
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September, Olmsted was assigned to work exclusively on Morningside Park, and he was dropped from his position as superintendent of other parks. Olmsted and Vaux...
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Anthony Trollope: A Victorian in his World, Savannah: Frederic C. Beil. Olmsted, Charles and Jeffrey Welch (1978). The Reputation of Trollope: An Annotated...
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the original Greensward Plan for Central Park created by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.: 340 However, a menagerie near the Arsenal, on the edge...
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ISBN 978-0806189130. Olmsted, Frederick Law; Vaux, Calvert; Croes, John James Robertson (1968). Fein, Albert (ed.). Landscape into cityscape: Frederick Law Olmsted's plans...
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Reservoir. In 1876, Frederick Law Olmsted was hired to survey the Bronx and map out streets based on the local geography. Olmsted noted the natural beauty of...
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by William Grant and Ignatz Pilat, a former assistant to Frederick Law Olmsted. The current park maintains their overall design. The new design brought...
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incorporated into the Greensward Plan for Central Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux. The King Jagiello Monument stands at Turtle Pond's east...
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with other cities around the world. After Frederick Law Olmsted's landscape firm Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot published a report on possible park sites, Schieren's...
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2013. Olmsted, Frederick Law; Vaux, Calvert; Croes, John James Robertson (1968). Fein, Albert (ed.). Landscape into cityscape: Frederick Law Olmsted's plans...
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boulevard in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, it was built between 1874 and 1876. Ocean Parkway runs...
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planted with radiating walks lined with trees. In 1872, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux were called in to replant the park, as an open glade with...
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