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    The OlmstedBeil 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 OlmstedBeil House Frederick...
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    Hylan Boulevard in Eltingville named OlmstedBeil 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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    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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