Category: Parks & Public Spaces

Olmsted 200 has inspired a renewal of interest in Olmsted parks and places— and the principles behind them. This post showcases a sampling of the many magnificent investments that dedicated communities are making in their landscapes across the country.

As its contribution to Olmsted 200, the FMOPL Archives Committee has compiled a Master List of the digital and archival records for projects throughout Maryland that involved the Olmsted firm— 136 projects in all! They seek to foster research on Maryland Olmsted Projects.

Run entirely by volunteers, Olmsted City of Greater Utica has taken tremendous steps forward in educating its community and raising funds for restoration projects.

The Village reflects on two projects— improving Triangle 55 and planting a grove in honor of Olmsted’s bicentennial.

On its 200th anniversary, the Rhode Island Historical Society undergoes many changes to ensure its future success.

Olmsted Parks Conservancy unveils new recreational opportunities and continues making progress on the Beargrass Preserve at Cherokee Park expansion.

The Friends of Olmsted Beil House offer new educational and ecological offerings at Olmsted’s Farmhouse.

Rochester, NY celebrated Olmsted 200 by announcing an important restoration project and hosting a summer of Olmsted-themed events.

Olmsted served as the honoree for this year’s Laurel Hill Day, an annual event held in a beautiful native glen in Stockbridge, MA.

Glorious – and underappreciated – designed landscapes by Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Olmsted Brothers Firm make Utica a very special community in central New York.

Eliza Davidson and Marcy Cottrell Houle explore the link between Forest Park and John Charles Olmsted.

Prospect Park Gardener, Jesse Brody, here muses on the London Plane Tree that provides the canopy in Prospect Park’s Concert Grove.

Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. (1822-1903) is one of my favorite figures in American history. Not only was he the nation’s pre-eminent landscape architect, but he made significant contributions as an author, conservationist, abolitionist, and social reformer. Frederick Law Olmsted and his sons–the Olmsted Brothers–had important ties with Chicago that are often overlooked.  At 6:00 p.m., […]

Downing Park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux as a memorial to Andrew Jackson Downing, their friend and mentor.

The current effort to restore the Carlton Street Footbridge (CSF) started in 1998 with a Request for Proposal (RFP) posting by Brookline, Mass.  It stated that “deferred maintenance over the past several decades has left the structure in a deteriorated and vulnerable state.” Brookline, home to some 60,000 people, borders Boston and shares the Muddy River […]