Author: Mark Roessler

Come along as Mark Roessler, our communications specialist, visits Olmsted and Vaux’s Prospect Park with Prospect Park Alliance Archivist Amy Peck.

A site of national significance, this remarkable Kirkbride hospital and its grounds— designed by Olmsted and Vaux— are currently at risk.

Do you know an Olmsted champion in your community? Nominate them for the Caroline Loughlin Volunteer Service Award or the Olmsted Stewardship Award by May 15!

The Olmsted Network is searching for a president to build on a period of tremendous growth.

The 2025 Charles E. Beveridge Research Grant supports research and projects highlighting the Olmsted firm’s legacy utilizing the Olmsted Archives at Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site.

Experts Margaret Bracken and John Herrold answer questions about the Conservancy’s latest tree initiative.

Salmaan Khan, the Olmsted Network’s newest board member, shares his appreciation for Olmsted in this brief interview.

The Olmsted Society celebrates Riverside’s 150th anniversary with a new logo and a renewed commitment to Stewardship, Education and Community Engagement.

Writer, historian and filmmaker Laurence Cotton offers an impressionistic essay on Laurelhurst Park in Portland, OR.

Please help us congratulate Dede on her new position and welcome nonprofit leader Caroline Cunningham as interim director.

As a staff member, I never imagined promoting the parks and principles of the founder of American landscape architecture would be quite so interesting… or fun.

As drought conditions grip New York City, Prospect Park Alliance contends with the recent blazes in Brooklyn’s Backyard.

The Olmsted Network recently hosted Pop-Up Buffalo, a three-day travel experience to Buffalo and Niagara Falls, NY.

The Olmsted Network’s guide to the U.S. Capitol Grounds makes its way to Congress just in time for the upcoming presidential inauguration.

We explore the origins of our nine-foot-tall Big Head Fred mascot with puppet-maker Randy Carfagno.