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Frederick Law Olmsted
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 United States. Olmsted was famous for co-designing many well-known urban parks with his partner Calvert Vaux, beginning with Central Park in New York City, which led to numerous other urban park designs including Prospect…
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business · American landscape architect (1822–1903) · botanist · landscape architect · journalist · impresario · businessperson · horticulturist · writer · also Frederick Law Olmsted, Frederick Law, Sr. Olmsted, Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., Frederick Law Olmstead, Olmsted
Born 26 April 1822 · Died 28 August 1903 · Q364187
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2026· 1 entry
2022· 5 entries
Yahoo: Frederick Law Olmsted created four emerald gems in Milwaukee. It's up to us to protect them.
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Wall Street Journal: Frederick Law Olmsted’s Triumph
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The Boston Globe: At 200, Frederick Law Olmsted continues to shape public space
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Forbes: Frederick Law Olmsted, Best Known For Central Park, Celebrated In New Digital Guide To Hundreds Of American Landscapes
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Yahoo: Why Frederick Law Olmsted's Landscape Design Work Is More Relevant Today Than Ever
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2020· 1 entry
archpaper: Frederick Law Olmsted’s Staten Island farmhouse among 18 New York sites recommended for historic listing
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2014· 1 entry
Moviefone: Frederick Law Olmsted Designing America (2014) - Where to Watch
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1999· 1 entry
“A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century”
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1986· 1 entry
“The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, Volume IV: Defending the Union: The Civil War and the U.S. Sanitary Commission”
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1905· 1 entry
Creating a series of connecting parkways between existing parks and suggesting improvements to those parks
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1903· 1 entry
Died 1903-08-28.
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1895· 2 entries
Senility forced Olmsted to retire
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In 1895, senility forced Olmsted to retire.
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1891· 2 entries
Olmsted refused to develop a plan for Presque Isle Park in Marquette, Michigan, saying that it "should not be marred by the intrusion of artificial objects"
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Joined the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution by right of his descent from his grandfather Benjamin Olmsted who served in the 4th Connecticut Regiment in 1775
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1883· 2 entries
Olmsted established what is considered to be the first full-time landscape architecture firm in Brookline, Massachusetts
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Olmsted established his landscape architecture and planning consultancy at Fairsted in Brookline, Massachusetts
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1879· 1 entry
But is today frequently described as a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park
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1871· 1 entry
Olmsted and Vaux designed the grounds for the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane in Poughkeepsie
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1865· 1 entry
And Vaux formed Olmsted, Vaux & Co
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1864· 1 entry
President Abraham Lincoln signed into law a bill creating the Yosemite Grant
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1863· 1 entry
Olmsted went west to become the manager of the newly established Rancho Las Mariposas–Mariposa gold mining estate in the Sierra Nevada mountains in California
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1861· 2 entries
Olmsted took leave as director of Central Park to work in Washington, D
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Frederick and Mary also had two children together who survived infancy: a daughter, Marion (born October 28, 1861), and a son Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (born July 24, 1870).
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1860· 2 entries
Their first child, John Theodore Olmsted, was born on June 13, 1860, and died in infancy.
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“A Journey in the Back Country”
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1859· 1 entry
Olmsted married Mary Cleveland (Perkins) Olmsted, the widow of his brother John, who died in 1857
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1856· 1 entry
“A Journey in the Seaboard States”
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1852· 1 entry
“Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England”
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1850· 1 entry
Traveled to England to visit public gardens, where he was greatly impressed by Joseph Paxton's Birkenhead Park
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1837· 1 entry
To study surveying with Frederick Barton, leaving when Barton left in 1838
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1827· 1 entry
To Mary Ann Bull, who shared her husband's strong love of nature and had perhaps a more cultivated taste
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1822· 1 entry
Born 1822-04-26.
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