Category: Charles E. Beveridge

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

Taken from The Master List of Design Projects of the Olmsted Firm 1857-1979, this article introduces the firm's park projects.

Landscape Architect, Author, Conservationist (1822–1903)

The Frederick Law Olmsted Papers and the Restoration of Olmsted's Parks.

Seven key principles shaped Frederick Law Olmsted’s work.

Despite his late commitment to landscape design, Olmsted's ideas on the subject had taken form long before he thought of himself as a landscape designer or attempted anything of the sort in a professional way.

Throughout his career, Frederick Law Olmsted created hundreds of works of landscape architecture. But his legacy goes far beyond these built masterworks.

In this reprinted article, Charles E. Beveridge walks us through the evolution of the Olmsted firm.