Creating common ground was the mission of Frederick Law Olmsted, founder of American landscape architecture. The year 2022 marks the bicentennial of Olmsted’s birth and his epic impact across ...

They raised the funds to bring famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. to York to look ... addressed the Stewart tract near Mount Rose cemetery, which had been offered for a park.

But the 55-foot-wide carriage drive of Olmsted’s day is now a six-lane arterial road. The carriage drive’s rough-textured crushed-gravel surface and the stone-covered service roads were all ...

Described as a multi-talented visionary, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted is perhaps best known for designing the grounds of Central Park in New York City and around the U.S. Capitol in ...

Exploring the role of Frederick Law Olmsted in the Buffalo parks system and Niagara Falls. Exploring the role of Frederick Law Olmsted in the Buffalo parks system and his work with the Free ...

A familiar story—where humans intervene, the wilderness loses its raw green power. Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. (1822-1903), the founder of American landscape architecture, didn’t think such ...

Layla George is leaving Olmsted Parks Conservancy to direct the redesign of the Belvedere. Frederick Law Olmsted designed parks that include Central Park in New York City. When Layla George took ...

Frederick Law Olmsted, most famous for designing New York's Central Park, also designed a system of parks for Louisville. Olmsted's Louisville parks were designed to incorporate the city's diverse ...

And in 1868, as our nation healed Civil War wounds and revived economic engines, William Dorsheimer, Frederick Law Olmsted and H.H. Richardson came together in the soon-to-be epicenter of American ...