Author: Max Ellinger

Each month between now and the July 31 HALS Challenge deadline, ASLA will be showcasing historic landscapes relevant to this year’s theme— Olmsted Landscapes. First up, Mountain View Cemetery!

NAOP and Olmsted 200 are pleased to share the winners of the “Inspired by Olmsted” carillon composition competition through a press release and the winning pieces through a musical booklet.

The American Society of Landscape Architects is currently accepting proposals for the 2022 Conference on Landscape Architecture in San Francisco, California, November 11-14, 2022.

The Friends of Fairsted are pleased to announce that they are now accepting applications for the Charles E. Beveridge Research Fellowship. Applications are due April 30, 2022, with notification to applicants on June 1, 2022.

Retired Chicago-based attorney John Notz recounts how he “backed his way” into learning about the work of the Olmsted Firm in Chicago and Milwaukee.

2022 is here — and so is the bicentennial of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted! Olmsted 200 invites you to ring in the Year of Olmsted with a deep dive into our website.

The country house of philanthropists Robert Treat and Lydia Lyman Paine, Stonehurst crowns the career-long collaboration between Olmsted and the renowned American architect Henry Hobson Richardson. 

Acclaimed photographer Mark Krancer describes how the magic of Olmsted Brothers’ Memorial Park in Jacksonville, Florida, has engaged his life and inspired his art.

Gail Ward Olmsted explains how her family heritage helped inspire a biographical novel on Olmsted and his wife Mary Perkins.

As we approach the holidays, and welcome the new year as the pinnacle of our celebration, the Olmsted 200 team can’t help but feel a sense of pride at how far we’ve come since our launch in early 2021.

Olmsted distant cousin and filmmaker Alden Olmsted recounts in a new film how an abandoned mining ditch in California's Gold Country was transformed into the first wheelchair nature trail in the United States by his late father and naturalist John Olmsted. The film debuts this spring at two film festivals.

Olmsted 200 lauds the life and career of urbanist Alexander Garvin (1941-2021) and mourns his loss.

The Library of Congress launches a new “By Design: Olmsted and Associates” By the People crowdsourcing transcription campaign that provides volunteers the opportunity to transcribe, review, and study Olmsted documents in an up-close way.

The Harvard University Graduate School of Design, in partnership with the Arnold Arboretum, will host a two-day academic conference on October 14–15, 2022 as part of Olmsted 200.

Olmsted's Never-Built Retreat: The Story of the U.S. Capitol's South Summerhouse