Balancing Change and Preservation in Historic Parks From pickleball courts and athletic fields to playgrounds and peaceful retreats, public parks are being asked to accommodate an ever-widening range of recreational activities. But how can historic parks accommodate today’s recreational needs without compromising the landscapes and experiences they were designed to provide? Join the Olmsted Network […]

We invite you to travel back in time to 1930s Camden, during the depths of the Depression. It was then that publishing heiress, philanthropist, and progressive activist Mary Louise Curtis Bok hired the Olmsted Brothers firm—America’s preeminent landscape architects—to bring her vision for Camden’s harbor shorefront to life. Drawing on documents and photographs from the Camden Public Library’s Walsh History […]

This webinar explores Chicago’s World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893, one of Frederick Law Olmsted’s most famous projects. As landscape architect, Olmsted joined Director of Works Daniel H. Burnham and a veritable who’s who of American architects at the end of the nineteenth century to conjure up an ephemeral city from the muddy marshlands of Jackson […]