Author: Max Ellinger

Frederick Law Olmsted is not the only one celebrating a birthday in April 2022. April 5, 2022 also marks the 175th anniversary of Birkenhead Park— the English park that inspired Olmsted and his designs.

The National Association for Olmsted Parks (NAOP) has announced the winners of their Olmsted 200 Student Essay Competition. Students at both the secondary and post-secondary school level were invited to submit essays addressing the question: How should the life, legacy and values of Frederick Law Olmsted inform 21st century challenges?

On April 26, we’ll be in NYC to #CelebrateOlmsted! If you plan to join us for the festivities, this blog will provide you with everything you need to know, including events and other opportunities to mark this special birthday.

In this series, Olmsted 200 examines different aspects of Olmsted’s far-reaching influence on America’s physical landscape and social fabric.

In a new manuscript, urban planner Don Poland explores the influence of Horace Bushnell on Frederick Law Olmsted during his formative early years in Hartford.

Lungs of the City: Olmsted’s Parks in Music is a concert series of new music for flute, clarinet, horn, percussion, violin, viola, and cello, commemorating the 2022 bicentennial of Frederick Law Olmsted’s birth.

A look into Gallaudet University, a private federally chartered research university, whose mission is to empower deaf and hard of hearing students.

Glorious – and underappreciated – designed landscapes by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Olmsted Brothers Firm make Utica a very special community in central New York.

Thanks to Lin-Manuel Miranda and Hamilton, the Schuyler sisters are quite famous. But did you know they were also connected to Frederick Law Olmsted?

Guess this musical…. Famous visionary figure, transformational period of American history, enduring legacy. Hamilton? No. It’s The Promise of Central Park.

Pulitzer-Prize winning novelist Geraldine Brooks recounts the joys of living with Tony Horwitz and Frederick Law Olmsted.

An overview of many new books about Frederic Law Olmsted and the Olmsted legacy

Among those who study the work of Olmsted, there is a growing consensus that Olmsted’s experiences in the South had a profound impact on his later career as a landscape architect who would design some of the nation’s most beloved parks.

Shelburne Farms is an education nonprofit working to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future. Our campus, a 1,400-acre working farm and National Historic Landmark designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., makes that work a lot easier.

The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) today announced a call for nominations for the 2022 edition of Landslide, the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit’s annual thematic report drawing attention to the threats faced by culturally significant American parks, gardens, horticultural features, working landscapes, and “other places that collectively embody our shared landscape heritage.”