Some Vermonters see it as a point of pride that the designer behind the grounds of Shelburne Farms, with its sinuous roads leading past planned fields, forests and Lake Champlain, was Frederick Law ...

Photographer Stanley Greenberg’s new book takes as its subjects those aspects of Olmsted landscapes that took decades to come into their own — the trees. Fagus sylvatica, European Beech, Lake Park, ...

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What do New York’s Central Park and Boston’s Emerald Necklace have in common? First of all, these great parks are the work of Frederick Law Olmsted, visionary social reformer and founder of American ...

He would go on to shape urban parks around the country, including parks in Milwaukee, Chicago's Riverside parks and Boston's Emerald Necklace. He would champion a national park system and design the ...

LAKE WALES — The Olmsted Network, a national organization dedicated to championing Olmsted parks, places and principles through advocacy, education and stewardship, is commemorating Frederick Law ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- When Frederick Law Olmsted took up residence in Staten Island in 1848, the then-budding founder of landscape architecture made his first foray into environmental design on a 130 ...

Perhaps the most famous American landscape architect was Frederick Law Olmsted, whose work included designing Central Park in New York and the grounds of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C. His ...

The Delacorte, renovated for $85 million, welcomes back audiences for Shakespeare in the Park. It echoes the park’s ethos, our architecture critic says. By James Barron The Davis Center at the Harlem ...

A national organization has recognized Lake Wales’ connection to the Olmsted design legacy while calling for a restoration of its planner’s vision of a garden city. The Cultural Landscape Foundation, ...

This year marks the 200th birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., the father of landscape architecture. In recognition of his legacy, a new report from an education and advocacy organization invested ...

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