Category: Spotlights

One of the Pacific Northwest's oldest and largest intact private estate gardens, Elk Rock Garden represents the unique vision of Scottish immigrant Peter Kerr and the enduring legacy of Olmsted design principles in Oregon.

In Manchester, Connecticut, Anne W. Cheney’s mansion once stood on a 40-acre landscape designed by Olmsted Brothers. A local landscape architect identifies what remains.

Learn more about Planting Fields, a former Gold Coast estate on Long Island, NY.

Explore the landscapes of Olmsted and Vaux's iconic Central Park in New York City.

Terwilliger Parkway in Portland, OR, was envisioned by John C. Olmsted at the turn of the 20th century.

In the nearly one hundred years the Olmsted Firm was active in Brookline, Massachusetts, no other firm in the country was comparable in number of employees, size of space, or scale of organization. Fairsted, now known as the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, held the firm’s offices.

Learn about Gray Gardens in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland, CA, was an early Olmsted design.

The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University was shaped by Frederick Law Olmsted and his successors across decades.

Explore how Olmsted shaped Stanford University in California.

Explore the history of Olmsted's Washington Park in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Stretching seven miles from end to end, the Emerald Necklace encompasses more than 1,100 acres of land, and stands as one of the nation’s earliest examples of green infrastructure—using organic materials such as stone, earth and plants to help absorb water and filter pollutants, instead of manmade structures of concrete or metal.

When Olmsted wrote "Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove" in 1865, he foresaw growing visitation and expressed concern about what would happen to the area if it wasn't properly managed.

Dive into Frederick Law Olmsted's design of the U.S. Capitol Grounds in Washington, D.C.

Built in 1871, the Jackson Park landscape today includes lagoons, historic bridges, winding paths and the Wooded Island which were part of Olmsted’s original vision.