Category: Field Notes

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.

The Charles E. Beveridge Research Fellowship supports research projects utilizing the Olmsted Archives at Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site. Applications for 2024 are open through April 1.

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.

Friends of Montrose Park in Washington, DC, say goodbye to a long-standing white oak tree and make plans for future tree planting.

The Garden Club of Orange and Dutchess Counties welcomed students to Downing Park for the kick-off for the Root for Trees! Program.

Olmsted City of Greater Utica celebrates the restoration of the historic Lily Pond in F.T. Proctor Park and its receipt of a large USDA Community Forestry Grant.

In October, Belle Isle Conservancy began its search for a new leader.

On November 29, the Boston community celebrated the completion of the Muddy River Flood Risk Management Project.

Birkenhead Park added to the 2023 UK Tentative List for World Heritage for pioneering urban, public parks and serving most famously as the inspiration for New York’s Central Park.

Volunteers from across Atlanta joined Olmsted Linear Park Alliance to remove invasives from Deepdene Forest.

After months of advocacy, the Lake Wales City Commission unanimously adopted the Lake Wales Envisioned plan.