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Frederick Law Olmsted
Olmsted in 1893;
engraving after a photograph
Born(1822-04-26)April 26, 1822[1]
Hartford, Connecticut,U.S.
DiedAugust 28, 1903(1903-08-28)(aged 81)
Belmont, Massachusetts,U.S.
Resting placeOld North Cemetery,Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
OccupationLandscape architect
Notable workNew York City Park
SpouseMary Cleveland Perkins
ChildrenJohn Charles,Charlotte, Owen, and Marion, andFrederick Law Jr.
Parent(s)John and Charlotte Olmsted
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Frederick Law Olmsted(April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an Americanlandscape architect,journalist,social critic,and public administrator. He is considered to be the father oflandscape architecturein the United States. Olmsted was famous for co-designing many well-known urban parks with his partnerCalvert Vaux.Olmsted and Vaux's first project was New York'sCentral Park,which led to many other urban park designs, includingProspect ParkinBrooklynandCadwalader ParkinTrenton, New JerseyandForest Park (Portland, Oregon).[2]He headed the preeminent landscape architecture and planning consultancy of late 19th century United States, which was carried on and expanded by his sons, Frederick Jr. and John C., under the nameOlmsted Brothers.[3]

Other projects that Olmsted was involved in include the country's first and oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways inBuffalo, New York;the country's oldest state park, theNiagara ReservationinNiagara Falls, New York;one of the first planned communities in the United States,Riverside, Illinois;Mount Royal ParkinMontreal,Quebec;The Institute of Livingin Hartford, Connecticut;Trinity Collegein Hartford, Connecticut; Waterbury Hospital in Waterbury, Connecticut; theEmerald NecklaceinBoston,Massachusetts;Highland ParkinRochester, New York;theGrand Necklace of ParksinMilwaukee,Wisconsin;Cherokee Parkand parks and parkway system inLouisville, Kentucky;Walnut Hill ParkinNew Britain, Connecticut;theBiltmore EstateinAsheville, North Carolina;the master plans for theUniversity of California, Berkeley,theUniversity of Maine,Stanford UniversitynearPalo Alto, California,Mount Holyoke College,The Lawrenceville School;andMontebello ParkinSt. Catharines,Ontario.In Chicago his projects includeJackson Park,Washington Park,the main park ground for the 1893World's Columbian Exposition,the southern portion ofChicago's emerald necklace boulevard ring,and theUniversity of Chicagocampus. InWashington, D.C.,he worked on the landscape surrounding theUnited States Capitolbuilding.

The quality of Olmsted's landscape architecture was recognized by his contemporaries, who showered him with prestigious commissions.Daniel Burnhamsaid of him, "He paints with lakes and wooded slopes; with lawns and banks and forest-covered hills; with mountainsides and ocean views…"[4]His work, especially in Central Park, set a standard of excellence that continues to influence landscape architecture in the United States. He was an early and importantactivistin theconservation movement,including work at Niagara Falls; the Adirondack region of upstate New York; and the National Park system; and, though little known, played a major role in organizing and providing medical services to theUnion Armyin the Civil War.[5]

Early life and education[edit]

A photograph of a white abandoned house in an overgrown yard.
TheOlmsted–Beil HouseinStaten Island

Olmsted was born inHartford, Connecticut,on April 26, 1822. His father, John Olmsted, was a prosperous merchant who took a lively interest in nature, people, and places; Frederick Law and his younger brother, John Hull Olmsted, also showed this interest. His mother, Charlotte Law (née Hull) Olmsted, died from an overdose before his fourth birthday in 1826.[6][7]His father remarried in 1827 to Mary Ann Bull, who shared her husband's strong love of nature and had perhaps a more cultivated taste. Their children were Charlotte, Mary, Owen, Bertha, Ada, and Albert Olmsted.[7]TheOlmstedancestors arrived in the early 1600s fromEssex,England.[8]

When he was almost ready to enterYale Collegeat a young age,sumac poisoningweakened his eyes, so he abandoned college plans. After working as an apprentice seaman, merchant, and journalist, he settled on a 125 acres (51 ha) farm in January 1848 on the south shore ofStaten Island.His father helped him acquire this farm, and he renamed it fromAkerly HomesteadtoTosomock Farm.It was later renamed "The Woods of Arden" by ownerErastus Wiman.The house in which Olmsted lived still stands at4515 Hylan Boulevard,near Woods of Arden Road.

Career[edit]

Journalism[edit]

Olmsted had a significant career in journalism. In 1850 he traveled to England to visit public gardens, where he was greatly impressed byJoseph Paxton'sBirkenhead Park.He subsequently wrote and publishedWalks and Talks of an American Farmer in Englandin 1852.[9]This supported his getting additional work. His visit to Birkenhead Park inspired his later contribution to the design ofCentral Parkin New York City.[10]

Interested in the slave economy, he was commissioned by theNew York Daily Times(nowThe New York Times) to embark on an extensive research journey through theAmerican SouthandTexasfrom 1852 to 1857. His dispatches to theTimeswere collected into three volumes (A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States(1856),A Journey Through Texas(1857),A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853–4(1860).

These are considered vivid first-person accounts of the antebellum South. A one-volume abridgment,Journeys and Explorations in the Cotton Kingdom(1861), was published in England during the first six months of theAmerican Civil War,at the suggestion of Olmsted's English publisher.[11][12][13]

To this, he wrote a new introduction (on "The Present Crisis" ). He stated his views on the effect of slavery on the economy and social conditions of the southern states:

My own observation of the real condition of the people of our Slave States, gave me... an impression that the cotton monopoly in some way did them more harm than good; and although the written narration of what I saw was not intended to set this forth, upon reviewing it for the present publication, I find the impression has become a conviction.

He argued that slavery had made the slave states inefficient (a set amount of work took 4 times as long in Virginia as in the North) and backward both economically and socially. He said that the profits of slavery were enjoyed by no more than 8,000 owners of large plantations; a somewhat larger group had about the standard of living of a New York City policeman, but the proportion of the free white men who were as well-off as a Northern working man was small. Slavery meant that 'the proportion of men improving their condition was much less than in any Northern community; and that the natural resources of the land were strangely unused, or were used with poor economy.'

He thought that the lack of a Southern white middle class and the general poverty of lower-class whites prevented the development of many civil amenities that were taken for granted in the North.

The citizens of the cotton States, as a whole, are poor. They work little, and that little, badly; they earn little, they sell little; they buy little, and they have little – very little – of the common comforts and consolations of civilized life. Their destitution is not material only; it is intellectual and it is moral... They were neither generous nor hospitable and their talk was not that of evenly courageous men.[14]

Between his travels in Europe and the South, Olmsted served as an editor forPutnam's Magazinefor two years[15]and as an agent with Dix, Edwards and Co., before the company's insolvency during thePanic of 1857.Olmsted provided financial support for, and occasionally wrote for, the magazineThe Nation,which was founded in 1865.[15]"Olmsted spent much of his free time working without pay as an editorial assistant to [the magazine's first editor, Edwin L.]Godkin.It was a labor of love. "[16]

New York City's Central Park[edit]

Olmsted in 1857
Olmsted and Vaux in 1863 adopted "landscape architect" as a professional title and used it to describe their work for the planning of urbanpark systems.
Willowdell Arch with the team that createdCentral Park,including (from right): Olmsted,Jacob Wrey Mould,Ignaz Anton Pilat,Calvert Vaux,George Waring,andAndrew Haswell Greenin 1862

Andrew Jackson Downing,the landscape architect fromNewburgh, New York,was one of the first to propose developing New York City'sCentral Parkin his role as publisher ofThe Horticulturistmagazine. A friend and mentor to Olmsted, Downing introduced him to the English-born architectCalvert Vaux,whom Downing had brought to the U.S. as his architectural collaborator. After Downing died in July 1852 in a widely publicized fire on theHudson RiversteamboatHenry Clay,Olmsted and Vaux entered the Central Park design competition together, againstEgbert Ludovicus Vieleamong others. Vaux had invited the less experienced Olmsted to participate in the design competition with him, having been impressed with Olmsted's theories and political contacts. Prior to this, in contrast with the more experienced Vaux, Olmsted had never designed or executed a landscape design.

TheirGreensward Planwas announced in 1858 as the winning design. On his return from the South, Olmsted began executing their plan almost immediately. Olmsted and Vaux continued their informal partnership to designProspect Park in Brooklynfrom 1865 to 1873.[17]That was followed by other projects. Vaux remained in the shadow of Olmsted's grand public personality and social connections.

The design of Central Park embodies Olmsted's social consciousness and commitment to egalitarian ideals. Influenced by Downing and his observations regarding social class in England, China, and the American South, Olmsted believed that the common green space must always be equally accessible to all citizens, and was to be defended against private encroachment. This principle is now fundamental to the idea of a "public park", but was not assumed as necessary then. Olmsted's tenure as Central Park commissioner was a long struggle to preserve that idea.[18]

U.S. Sanitary Commission[edit]

In 1861, Olmsted took leave as director of Central Park to work in Washington, D.C., as Executive Secretary of theU.S. Sanitary Commission,a precursor to theRed Cross.He tended to the wounded during theAmerican Civil War.In 1862, during Union GeneralGeorge B. McClellan'sPeninsula Campaign,he headed the medical effort for the sick and wounded atWhite Houseplantation inNew Kent County,which had a boat landing on thePamunkey River.

He was one of the six founding members of theUnion League Club of New York.

He helped to recruit and outfit three African-American regiments of theUnited States Colored Troopsin New York City.[citation needed]He contributed to organizing aSanitary Fair,which raised one million dollars for theUnited States Sanitary Commission.

He worked for the Sanitary Commission to the point of exhaustion: "Part of the problem was his need to maintain control over all aspects of the commission's work. He refused to delegate and he had an appetite for authority and power."[19]By January 1863 a friend wrote: "Olmsted is in an unhappy, sick, sore mental state... He works like a dog all day and sits up nearly all night... works with steady, feverish intensity till four in the morning, sleeps on a sofa in his clothes, and breakfasts on strong coffee and pickles!!!"[19]His overwork and lack of sleep led to his being in a perpetual state of irritability, which wore on the people with whom he worked: "Exhausted, ill and having lost the support of the men who put him in charge, Olmsted resigned on Sept. 1, 1863." Yet within a month he was on his way to California.[19]

Gold mining project in California[edit]

In 1863, Olmsted went west to become the manager of the newly establishedRancho Las Mariposas–Mariposagold mining estate in theSierra Nevadamountains inCalifornia.[20]The estate had been sold byJohn C. Fremontto New York banker,Morris Ketchum,in January of that same year. The mine was unsuccessful. "By 1865, the Mariposa Company was bankrupt, Olmsted returned to New York, and the land and mines were sold at a sheriff's sale."[21]

In 1865, he was appointed to the first board of commissioners for managing the newly establishedYosemite Valley and Mariposa Groveland grants.[22]

U.S. park designer[edit]

In 1865, he and Vaux formed Olmsted, Vaux & Co. When Olmsted returned to New York, he and Vaux designedProspect Park;theplannedChicago suburb ofRiverside, Illinois;the park system forBuffalo, New York;Milwaukee's grand necklace of parks; and theNiagara ReservationatNiagara FallsandBelle Islein Detroit.

Olmsted conceived of entire systems of parks and interconnecting parkways to connect certain cities to green spaces. Some of the best examples of the scale on which he worked are the park system designed for Buffalo, one of the largest projects; the system he designed for Milwaukee, and the park system designed forLouisville, Kentucky,which was one of only four completed Olmsted-designed park systems in the world.[citation needed]

For a list of Olmsted-designed parks in Buffalo, New York, seeBuffalo, New York parks system.
Frederick Law Olmsted,oil painting byJohn Singer Sargent,1895,Biltmore Estate,Asheville, North Carolina

Olmsted was a frequent collaborator with architectHenry Hobson Richardson,for whom he devised the landscaping schemes for half a dozen projects, including Richardson's commission for theBuffalo State Asylum.[23]In 1871, Olmsted and Vaux designed the grounds for theHudson River State Hospital for the InsaneinPoughkeepsie.[24]

In 1883, Olmsted established what is considered to be the first full-time landscape architecture firm inBrookline, Massachusetts.He called the home and office compoundFairsted.It is now the restoredFrederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site.From there Olmsted designed Boston'sEmerald Necklace,the campuses ofWellesley College,Smith College,Stanford Universityand theUniversity of Chicago,as well as the 1893World's Fairin Chicago, among many other projects.

Conservationist[edit]

Olmsted was an important early leader of theconservation movementin the United States. An expert on California, he was likely one of the gentlemen "of fortune, of taste and of refinement" who proposed, through Senator John Conness, that Congress designateYosemite Valleyand Mariposa Big Tree Grove as public reserves.[25]This was the first land set aside by Congress for public use. Olmsted served a one-year appointment on the Board of Commissioner of the state reserve, and his 1865 report to Congress on the board's recommendations laid an ethical framework for the government to reserve public lands, to protect their "value to posterity". He described the "sublime" and "stately" landscape, emphasizing that the value of the landscape was not in any one individual waterfall, cliff, or tree, but in the "miles of scenery where cliffs of awful height and rocks of vast magnitude and of varied and exquisite coloring, are banked and fringed and draped and shadowed by the tender foliage of noble and lovely trees and bushes, reflected from the most placid pools, and associated with the most tranquil meadows, the most playful streams, and every variety of soft and peaceful pastoral beauty."[26]

In the 1880s, he was active in efforts to conserve the natural wonders ofNiagara Falls,threatened with industrialization by the building of electrical power plants. At the same time, he campaigned to preserve theAdirondack regionin upstate New York. He was one of the founders of the American Society of Landscape Architects in 1898.[27]

Olmsted was also known to oppose park projects on conservationist grounds. In 1891, Olmsted refused to develop a plan forPresque Isle ParkinMarquette, Michigan,saying that it "should not be marred by the intrusion of artificial objects."[28]

Legacy[edit]

Drafting room,Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

After Olmsted's retirement and death, his sonsJohn Charles OlmstedandFrederick Law Olmsted Jr.,continued the work of their firm, doing business as theOlmsted Brothers.The firm lasted until 1980. Many works by the Olmsted sons are mistakenly credited to Frederick Law Olmsted today. For instance, the Olmsted Brothers firm did a park plan forPortland, Maine,in 1905, creating a series of connecting parkways between existing parks and suggesting improvements to those parks. The oldest of these parks, Deering Oaks, had been designed by City Engineer William Goodwin in 1879 but is today frequently described as a Frederick Law Olmsted-designed park.

A residence hall at theUniversity of Hartfordwas named in his honor.Olmsted Point,located inYosemite National Park,[29]was named after Olmsted and his son Frederick.[30]

TheFrederick Law Olmsted National Historic Siteis located inBrookline, Massachusettsin his former home. Olmsted is known as the "father of American Landscape Architecture".[31]

Personal life[edit]

On June 13, 1859, Olmsted married Mary Cleveland (Perkins) Olmsted, the widow of his brother John, who died in 1857.Daniel Fawcett Tiemann,the mayor of New York, officiated the wedding. Olmsted adopted Mary's three children (his nephews and niece),John Charles Olmsted(born 1852), Charlotte Olmsted (born 1855), and Owen Frederick Olmsted (born 1857).[7]

Frederick and Mary also had two children together who survived infancy: a daughter, Marion (born October 28, 1861), and a sonFrederick Law Olmsted Jr.(born July 24, 1870). Their first child, John Theodore Olmsted, was born on June 13, 1860, and died in infancy.[32][33]

In recognition of his services during the Civil War, Olmsted was elected a Third Class member of the Massachusetts Commandery of theMilitary Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States(MOLLUS) on May 2, 1888, and was assigned insignia number 6345. Olmsted's election to MOLLUS is significant in that he was one of the few civilians elected to membership in an organization composed almost exclusively of military officers and their descendants.[34]In 1891 he joined the Connecticut Society of theSons of the American Revolutionby right of his descent from his grandfather Benjamin Olmsted who served in the 4th Connecticut Regiment in 1775.[35]

In 1895,senilityforced Olmsted to retire. By 1898 he moved toBelmont, Massachusetts,and took up residence as a patient at theMcLean Hospital,for whose grounds he had submitted a design which was never executed. He remained there until he died in 1903. He was buried in theOld North Cemetery,inHartford, Connecticut.

Olmsted's principles of design[edit]

Drawing influences from English landscape and gardening,[36]Olmsted emphasized design that encourages the full use of the naturally occurring features of a given space,[37]its "genius"; the subordination of individual details to the whole so that decorative elements do not take precedence, but rather the whole space is enhanced; concealment of design, design that does not call attention to itself; design that works on the unconscious to produce relaxation; and utility or purpose over ornamentation. A bridge, a pathway, a tree, a pasture: any and all elements are brought together to produce a particular effect.

Olmsted designed primarily in pastoral and picturesque styles, each to achieve a particular effect. The pastoral style featured vast expanses of green with small lakes, trees, and groves and produced a soothing, restorative effect on the viewer. The picturesque style covered rocky, broken terrain teeming with shrubs and creepers, to express nature's richness. The picturesque style played with light and shade to lend the landscape a sense of mystery.

Scenery was designed to enhance the sense of space: indistinct boundaries using plants, brush, and trees as opposed to sharp ones; the interplay of light and shadow close up, and blurred detail farther away. He employed a vast expanse of greenery at the end of which would lie a grove of yellow poplar; a path that winds through a bit of landscape and intersects with others, dividing the terrain into triangular islands of successive new views.

Subordination strove to use all objects and features in the service of the design and its intended effect. It can be seen in the subtle use of naturally occurring plants throughout the park. Non-native species planted for the sake of their own uniqueness was seen as defeating the purpose of design, as that very uniqueness would draw attention to itself where the intention is to enable relaxation: utility above all else was an objective. Separation applied to areas designed in different styles and different uses enhancing safety and reducing distraction. A key feature of Central Park is the use ofsunken roadwayswhich traverse the park and are specifically dedicated to vehicles as opposed to the winding pathways designated specifically for pedestrians.

An example of this mix of principles is seen in theCentral Park Mall,a large promenade leading to the Bethesda Terrace, and the single formal feature in Olmsted and Vaux's original naturalistic design. The designers wrote that a "'grand promenade' was an 'essential feature of a metropolitan park'";[38]however, its formal symmetry, its style, although something of an aberration, was designed to be subordinate to the natural view surrounding it. Wealthy passengers were let from their carriages at its south end. The carriage would then drive around to the Terrace, which overlooked the Lake and Ramble to pick them up, saving them the trouble of needing to double back on foot. The Promenade was lined with slender elms and offered views of Sheep Meadow.

The New Jersey residence of Jessica M. and Frederic T. van Beuren Jr. includes some of the Olmsted landscape design for the entire estate.

Affluent New Yorkers, who rarely walked through the park, mixed with the less well-to-do in the Terrace areas, and all enjoyed an escape from the hustle and bustle of the surrounding city. However, the most wealthy among them employed the firm to landscape their country estates in a similar fashion for their private enjoyment, such as that ofFrederick T. van Beuren Jr.in New Jersey. He is a descendant of a Dutch physician who settled in Manhattan in 1700 and whose family members became prominent property owners in the city and various other locations. Initially, that country estate was one of several self-sufficient retreats from Manhattan held by the family that included a supporting farm for produce, livestock, and a livery as well as several houses for permanent staff. The estate later became a more permanent residence as van Beuren's career shifted to founding a hospital in the growingcommunity nearby.At that time the shingled structure inNew Vernonwas renovated into a brick structure that is described as one of the notable mansions of the area.[39]At the time of the renovation, the mature landscape plan for the residence was not altered. A widening of Spring Valley Road during the late twentieth century did eliminate some Olmsted landscaping that included a cascading bank of native ferns lining a roadside stretch of the property that extended along the road from Blackberry Lane to the eponymous van Beuren Road that divided the family property from its northern boundary to its southern boundary at Blue Mill Road.

In popular culture[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^A celebration of the life and work of Frederick Law Olmsted– Biography Page.
  2. ^"F. L. Olmsted is Dead; End Comes to Great Landscape Architect at Waverly, Mass. Designer of Central and Prospect Parks and Other Famous Garden Spots of American Cities"(PDF).New York Times.August 29, 1903.RetrievedJune 2,2018.
  3. ^Caves, R. W. (2004).Encyclopedia of the City.Routledge. p. 500.ISBN9780415252256.
  4. ^Martin, John Stuart (October 1964). "He Paints With Lakes And Wooded Slopes...".American Heritage.15(6).
  5. ^Robert Muccigrosso, ed., Research Guide to American Historical Biography.
  6. ^Martin, Justin (2011).Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted.Hachette Books. p. 8.ISBN978-0-306-81984-1.RetrievedJune 12,2020.
  7. ^abc"The Olmsted Family | Articles and Essays | Frederick Law Olmsted Papers | Digital Collections | Library of Congress".Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.RetrievedOctober 2,2023.
  8. ^Olmsted, Henry King; Ward, George K. (1912).Genealogy of the Olmsted family in America.Quintin Publications. p. 8.ISBN978-1-58211-670-9.RetrievedJune 12,2020.
  9. ^Homsy, Bryn (2001)."Frederick Law Olmsted".Historic Gardens Review(9): 2–7.ISSN1461-0191.JSTOR44791222.
  10. ^Olmsted, Frederick Law(1852).Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England.George E. Putnam. p. 83.OCLC3900449.
  11. ^Cf. Wilson, p. 220. "At the beginning of the Civil War, it was suggested by Olmsted's English publisher that a one-volume abridgment of all three of these books would be of interest to the British public, and Olmsted, then busy with Central Park, arranged to have this condensation made by an anti-slavery writer from North Carolina. Olmsted himself contributed to a new introduction onThe Present Crisis."
  12. ^Stampp, Kenneth M.(1953). "review ofThe Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States. Based upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations by the Same Authorby Frederick Law Olmsted; edited, with an introduction by Arthur M. Schlesinger ".The American Historical Review.doi:10.1086/ahr/59.1.141.vol. 1 of 1861 editionvol. 2 of 1861 edition
  13. ^Woody, Robert Hilliard (1955). "review ofThe Cotton Kingdomby Frederick Law Olmsted; edited, with an introduction, by Arthur M. Schlesinger ".South Atlantic Quarterly.54:164–165.doi:10.1215/00382876-54-1-164.S2CID257878647.
  14. ^Olmsted, Frederick Law,The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller's Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave States. Based Upon Three Former Volumes of Journeys and Investigations,Mason Brothers, 1862.
  15. ^abFiller, Martin(November 5, 2015)."America's Green Giant".New York Review of Books.62(17).RetrievedNovember 8,2015.
  16. ^Hall, Lee,Olmsted's America,p. 147.
  17. ^Lancaster, Clay (1972).Handbook of Prospect Park.Long Island University Press. pp. 51–66.ISBN0-913252-06-9.Archived fromthe originalon August 27, 2009.
  18. ^Kalfus 1991,pp. 308ff
  19. ^abcMasur, Louis P. (July 9, 2011)."Olmsted's Southern Landscapes".New York Times.RetrievedSeptember 20,2018.
  20. ^"Olmsted Introduction".
  21. ^Chamberlain, Newell D. (1936).The Call of Gold: True Tales on the Gold Road to Yosemite.Mariposa, California: Gazette Press.
  22. ^"Yosemite History: Frederick Law Olmsted, Landscape Architect".Yosemite National Park.RetrievedApril 26,2022.
  23. ^Carla Yanni, The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States, University of Minnesota Press, 2007, pp. 127–139.
  24. ^Farrell, Barbara Gallo (August 14, 2019)."Through photographs, history of 'Hudson River State Hospital' unveiled".www.poughkeepsiejournal.com.RetrievedAugust 14,2019.
  25. ^Laura Wood Roper. "FLO: A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted".
  26. ^Frederick Law Olmsted, "The Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Big Tree Grove".
  27. ^Albert Fein,Frederick Law Olmsted and the American Environmental Tradition(1972).
  28. ^Martin, Justin (September 2, 2011)."Jewels of Olmsted's Unspoiled Midwest".The New York Times.
  29. ^"Olmsted Point".Russ Cary.RetrievedNovember 16,2013.
  30. ^"Hundreds Celebrate Completion of Facelift to Yosemite's Dramatic Olmsted Point Overlook".National Park Service.RetrievedOctober 16,2014.
  31. ^"Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site—Massachusetts Conservation: A Discover Our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary".Archived fromthe originalon May 2, 2015.
  32. ^Witold Rybezynski,A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century,Scribner, New York, 1999.
  33. ^Frederick Law Olmsted; Theodora Kimball Hubbard (1922).Frederick Law Olmsted, Landscape Architect, 1822–1903.G.P. Putnam's Sons. pp.78–.
  34. ^1912 Register of the Massachusetts Commandery of MOLLUS.
  35. ^Yearbook of the Connecticut Society of the Sons of the American Revolution 1897, 1898 & 1899, p. 587.
  36. ^Walter Rogers; Michaal Dollin (2010).The Professional Practice of Landscape Architecture: A Complete Guide to Starting and Running Your Own Firm.John Wiley & Sons. p. 19.ISBN9780470902424.
  37. ^Kalfus 1991,pp. 196, 313
  38. ^Rosenzweig & Blackmar 1992,p. 133
  39. ^"Rae, John W.,Images of America: Mansions of Morris County,Charleston, South Carolina, Arcadia Press presented at Owners of mansions in Morristown, Madison, and the surrounding area inBrief History of Morris Countyprepared by the county ".
  40. ^Freile, Victoria E."Baby giraffe at Seneca Park Zoo named after park designer".Democrat and Chronicle.RetrievedJune 3,2022.

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