Category: Field Notes

The Friends of Olmsted-Beil House (FOBH) debuts a map project illustrating many of Olmsted's Staten Island locations.

On the cusp of April 26— Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th birthday— NAOP and Olmsted 200 are inspired not only to celebrate the past but to sustain and reimagine public spaces for the future.

The Frederick Law Olmsted Society of Riverside is pleased to announce the Olmsted Overlook— a public park project calling for a “living grove of native trees.” The site will be named in honor of Frederick Law Olmsted as part of the Olmsted 200 celebration in 2022.

In December 2021, Olmsted Parks Conservancy announced the first major park expansion in 100 years, thanks to a generous donation.

On the cusp of April 26— Frederick Law Olmsted’s 200th birthday— NAOP and Olmsted 200 are inspired not only to celebrate the past but to sustain and reimagine public spaces for the future.

Library of American Landscape History is celebrating Olmsted 200 by releasing two Olmsted books— Olmsted and Yosemite: Civil War, Abolition, and the National Park Idea by Rolf Diamant and Ethan Carr and Walks and Talks of An American Farmer in England with an introduction by Charles C. McLaughlin.

In honor of both Frederick Law Olmsted’s birthday and Earth Day, the Library of Congress is gearing up for a busy April, displaying an exhibit in the Thomas Jefferson building and hosting weekly crowdsourcing transcription challenges.

Lake Wales Heritage works to revive Olmsted’s vision for the city and to engage the public in its efforts.

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.