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Olmsted Network 2025 Annual Conference—Defending Common Ground: An Olmsted Parks Intensive
636 Eye Street NW
Washington, DC
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127th Annual NEPA Fall Conference & Trade Show
The Olmsted Network is pleased to present at the upcoming New England Park Association Conference on September 10. In our session, we will share tested strategies for protecting historic landscapes from common threats like privatization and disinvestment. We’ll also share a sneak peek of our new digital database that reimagines how Olmsted landscapes are documented, […]
Laconia, NH
Olmsted Network 2025 Annual Conference—Defending Common Ground: An Olmsted Parks Intensive
The Olmsted Network invites you to join us for Defending Common Ground: An Olmsted Parks Intensive on October 23–25 in Washington, D.C. This year’s conference will empower conservancies, friends groups and park supporters of all sizes with the tools, knowledge and inspiration needed to preserve and enhance Olmsted parks and places. Sessions will be led by experts and peers from across […]
Washington, DC
The Olmsted Collections in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress: An Orientation Session
As an extension of our annual conference, join the Olmsted Network for an exclusive tour of the Olmsted Collections in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress. Historian & Curator Barbara Bair and Reference Librarian Loretta Deaver will provide insights on what can be learned from the archival collections of Olmsted and his firm. […]
Washington , DC
2025 Olmsted Network Awards Dinner
Help the Olmsted Network celebrate our 2025 award winners! We’ll gather at First Congregational UCC in Washington, D.C. for a buffet dinner and acknowledgment of Olmsted champions around the country. This event is held in conjunction with our 2025 Annual Conference. Please note that the award dinner is already included in the conference ticket. The […]
Washington, DC
LALH Film Event: Racism and the American Park
Powerful storytelling about the role of parks in shaping the American experienceand the destructive effect of racial injustice on these public spaces. Join us for an evening of film and conversation with three of America’s leading park historians—Ethan Carr, Rolf Diamant, and William O’Brien—cosponsored by Friends of Fairsted and Library of American Landscape History. (Premiere) OLMSTED AND YOSEMITE: Civil […]
Brookline, MA
Beyond the Emerald Necklace: Charles Eliot’s role in expanding the Olmsted vision
Beyond the Emerald Necklace: Charles Eliot’s role in expanding the Olmsted vision to regional and statewide landscape planning. The first unpaid intern in the Olmsted office in Brookline, Charles Eliot (1859-1897) later traveled in Europe for self education before establishing an independent practice in Boston. In 1893, Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. and John Charles Olmsted convinced Eliot […]