Category: Field Notes

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Emerald Necklace Conservancy opposes privatization of Franklin Park in legal filing.

Experts John King, Torey Carter-Conneen, Kate Orff and Thomas Woltz discuss the past, present and future of landscape architecture.

Maplewood, NJ, honors the organization and volunteers who steward the community’s historic Memorial Park.

The landmark bridge, which was closed last November for upkeep and renovations, is now open.

In a new webinar, Cal Poly professor Christine Edstom O’Hara discusses Olmsted Brothers’ design for Palos Verdes.

Olmsted Network President & CEO Anne "Dede" Neal Petri will receive The Garden Club of America's 2024 Distinguished Service Medal.

The Olmsted Network recently presented Memorial Park Association with a resolution to commemorate the park’s 100th anniversary.

The Olmsted Network welcomed historic roads expert Dan Marriott for a deep dive into the history and modern uses of park roads.

Since the organization's founding in 2018, Friends of Olmsted-Beil House has come a long way to becoming a key destination for those seeking to understand Olmsted's life and work.

The gift that keeps on giving: how the Wheatena Corporation's gift of four acres of parkland to Rahway, New Jersey, in 1922 was the seed that grew into the Rahway River Parkway and, ultimately, the Union County Park System.

Friends of Olmsted-Beil House is the proud recipient of a grant that will enable them to prepare a historic preservation plan and schematic design for Olmsted’s historic farmhouse.

In their most ambitious landscape preservation project since 2005, Biltmore is planting an American holly hedge along one side of its Italian Garden. This will improve the view and restore the design to Olmsted’s original vision.

The Olmsted Network celebrates exciting progress in Milwaukee, WI, as Washington Park receives historic designation.

The Olmsted Network emphasized the vital relationship between public parks and public health during the American Public Health Association’s 2023 Annual Meeting & Expo in Atlanta, GA.