Olmsted is best known for designing Central Park, but he also designed hundreds of other spaces around the country. A new guide highlights some of his lesser-known works. Are public parks an ...

WATTENBERG: Frederick Law Olmsted was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in 1822. Following a job as a ship’s boy on a trade ship to China he tried life as a gentleman farmer on Staten Island.

George Vanderbilt’s infamous Biltmore Estate in Asheville, NC is a shining example of Chateauesque architecture.

The “Buffalo…..who knew?” podcast series aims to highlight the (often under appreciated, sometimes unearthed) assets of Buffalo–particularly as it relates to the built and natural environment.

John Charles Olmsted (one of the son of Fredrick law Olmsted) and his associate, James Frederick Dawson, toured all over the city of Spokane — to the river gorge, to Manito Park, to Indian ...

Recent visitors to the Folk Art Center note the high quality and ... The estate grounds designed by famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (who also designed Central Park) cover 8,000 ...

Pioneering environmental artist Patricia Johanson, who merged art and engineering in a decades-long practice that sought to ...

The firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of New York’s Central Park and Boston’s “Emerald Necklace” system of parks, designed the original 1927 landscaping plan for the campus that has been built ...

It turns out that in 2022, the Conservancy will be participating in the national celebration of Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th birthday. If there was ever a chance to regain the title ...

He contrasts this distinctly un-American idyll with that of Frederick Law Olmsted, the master park-planner for whom landscapes create a “vital link . . . between leisure and contemplation on the ...

The firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, designers of New York’s Central Park and Boston’s “Emerald Necklace” system of parks, designed the landscaping. The campus environment greatly enriches the ...

Frederick Law Olmsted was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is considered to be the father of landscape architecture in the USA. Olmsted was ...