Category: Field Notes

Bok Tower Gardens in Lake Wales, Florida recently hosted their 25th International Carillon Festival on March 16-20. The festival featured world-renown carillonneurs as well as the debut of the winning Inspired by Olmsted compositions.

A new park in Baltimore, Maryland is being developed with Olmsted’s design principles in mind.

After decades of advocacy and fundraising, Highland Park Conservancy’s Children’s Pavilion Reconstruction Project has been approved and will come to fruition soon.

Boston’s Emerald Necklace details a project to “health check” their trees and a collaboration with the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site on Olmsted Now: Greater Boston’s Olmsted Bicentennial.

Frederick Law Olmsted’s “first and last suburbs” come together to recognize their common bond in FLO’s legacy and ensure a lasting partnership.

The effort to restore the Carlton Street Footbridge in Brookline, Mass. began in 1998. 24 years later, the project is nearing completion.

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.