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 ...

a Dutch designer who has been likened by some to the late famed Belle Isle and Central Park landscape architect Frederick Law ...

In Washington, D.C. landscape architects work to protect a fragile urban forest designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr from the ruinous effects of climate change.

Bok, a successful publisher, humanitarian, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author. He contracted famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. to change the sandy property into “a spot of beauty ...

An early trustee, the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., even contributed pivotal language to the Organic Act of 1916, the law that created the Park Service. In it, he articulated the ...

Attendees can also stroll the gardens designed by New York City Central Park landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux worked together to complete these projects. The Parade complex was located where the current Martin Luther King Jr. Park is currently, between Genesee St ...

"A swamp is a swamp," scoffed respected zoologist William T. Hornaday. Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. agreed that the scenery was "monotonous," but he was struck by the "unforgettable sight" of ...

The organization attracted to its board of trustees such luminaries as naturalist Olaus Murie, wildlife activist Bob Marshall and landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., who had contributed ...

From Delaware Park to Soldiers Place, Lincoln Parkway lies at the heart of America’s first interconnected park and parkway system, envisioned by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1868 ...