Author: Max Ellinger

Professor Yvonne Elet recounts the Olmsted legacy at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY.

One man’s effort to relocate a colonial era home to Savannah, GA led his family to uncover connections to Frederick Law Olmsted.

This blog highlights Olmsted's connection to Niagara Falls and the special event on his 200th birthday.

On April 26, 2022, we celebrated the 200th anniversary of Frederick Law Olmsted's birth— and what a day it was! From the outpouring of social media shoutouts to the hundreds of birthday parties and lectures held across the country, this birthday was truly one for the books.

Over a century ago, renowned landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, transformed the acreage around Biltmore House from overworked woodland to the lush, natural landscaped experienced today.

At the Olmsted Birthday Gala in New York City on April 25, 2022, Laurie Olin, Mike Messner and Sara Zewde, all members of the Olmsted 200 Honorary Committee, offered moving tributes to FLO. At the conclusion of their tributes, author Hugh Howard offered a toast to FLO as the grand finale of the evening.

"Olmsted left a remarkable legacy as an author, social reformer, and conservationist, and, most notably, as the nation’s pre-eminent landscape architect. As he produced extremely important work here in Chicago, we are pulling out all of the stops to honor this milestone."

Meet Dini Cecil Pickering, a member of our Olmsted 200 Honorary Committee!

Chattanooga transplant and urban parks advocate Scott Martin explores the relevance of Olmsted’s ideas, landscape innovations, and design instincts through a 21st Centuray lens.

As the managing partner of Olmsted 200, the National Association for Olmsted Parks hosted a gala in NYC in honor of Olmsted's 200th birthday. The event drew nearly 250 partners, supporters, and scholars from across the country.

Olmsted 200’s theme of “Parks for All People” is an important lens to use as we think about both the past and the future.

In just over a month— on April 26, 2022— people across the country will celebrate the 200th birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted. Author, journalist, public official, city planner and father of American landscape architecture, Olmsted has been called by biographer Justin Martin "the most important historical figure the average American knows least amount."

T-minus 11 days until FLO’s 200th! The day we’ve been waiting for is almost here, and we couldn’t be more excited to reflect on Olmsted’s living legacy and usher in the next 200 years of parks for all people.

On the cusp of April 26— Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th birthday— NAOP and Olmsted 200 are inspired not only to celebrate the past but to sustain and reimagine public spaces for the future.

Jane Alexander recalls living at 99 Warren Street, the home of the great landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Fairsted is now a National Historic Site.