Author: Max Ellinger

In his hometown of Hartford, Olmsted contributed to the planning and the design of Trinity College.

In this episode of Cream City Windy City, podcast host Wendy Bright discusses Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of landscape architecture. Olmsted had an outsize impact on Milwaukee and Chicago, designing some of the cities’ most exquisitely conceived parks in the early 1890s. Listen to the podcast now: https://cream-city-windy-city.simplecast.com/episodes/frederick-law-olmsted

(Note: This interview has been edited for clarity and length.) What drew you to write about World’s End? I’ve been interested in Frederick Law Olmsted since I was a kid. My dad was a preservation architect in New York City during the 1980s and ’90s, and one of his jobs was helping to restore Central […]

Frederick Law Olmsted and his successors are well known for their development of city parks and park systems, but they also made lasting contributions to the National Park Service (NPS).

Friends of Fairsted created the Charles E. Beveridge Research Fellowship to honor the eminent scholar, Series Editor of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, and devoted friend of Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site (Olmsted NHS) and its archives and collections. The Fellowship is intended to encourage the use of these archives and foster the […]

A new book highlights part of Frederick Law Olmsted’s legacy in Milwaukee.

Which park is your favorite? And what do you most enjoy in your neighborhood park? We would like to know. And what better time to share than during National Park and Recreation Month!  This special month is spearheaded by the National Recreation and Park Association, an Olmsted 200 founding partner. The theme is “Our Park and Recreation […]

City Parks Alliance is pleased to announce a call for speaker presentations for Greater & Greener 2022 in Philadelphia, PA on June 18-21, 2020.  CONFERENCE OVERVIEW Greater & Greener is the leading international conference for urban park leaders, design professionals, public officials, advocates, funders, and innovators to explore the role of parks and recreation in addressing some of […]

On July 20, 2021, hundreds of viewers tuned into Conversations with Olmsted: Creating Parks for the Ages. Hosted by the National Association for Olmsted Parks on behalf of Olmsted 200, the second installment in the series explored Olmsted’s belief that thoughtfully-designed public parks could bring communities together and provide residents and visitors with a host […]

In 1869, after a decade of toying with the idea of creating a park on Mount Royal, the City of Montréal began the process of acquiring the land to achieve its vision. The land purchase alone cost Montréal the equivalent of close to a full year’s budget. The City Council then went straight to Frederick […]

An historian and artist who lives in Washington, D.C., Jane Loeffler has written and taught widely on the history of modern architecture and landscape history. Here, she remembers her introduction to Olmsted.

Frederick Law Olmsted is the pioneer of landscape architecture in the U.S., the creator of green space masterpieces that dot the country. But perhaps the greatest testament to his genius is how very little one needs to know about him in order to appreciate his work. That has certainly been my experience. Back in 1987, […]

Despite Connecticut’s importance to the Olmsted, there is little contemporary understanding for the state’s place in the story. In response to this information gap, two Connecticut organizations collaborate to complete the state’s Olmsted research and inventory.

The Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy first broke the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for the “Longest line of garden flamingos” on June 21st, 2018, in Bidwell Parkway. Since then, the flamingo, re-named FLOmingo in honor of Frederick Law Olmsted, has also become the unofficial mascot of the Conservancy.  In October 2019, the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ was taken back […]