About Atlanta Parks
About Atlanta Parks
The Olmsted Brothers were hired by the City Council of Atlanta in 1903 to prepare plans and improve the existing Grant Park (02741), Springvale Park (02742), and Mim’s Park (02743). In their 1903 preliminary report to the Board of Park Commissioners they made several recommendations. When discussing Grant Park, the largest park in Atlanta, they advised that effort be taken “to replace the comparatively natural and wild forest with a growth of the more or less strange and interesting.” For Springvale Park they suggested broadening the walk and creating “a greater effect of continuity and harmony in the planting and to afford a marked distinction in the character of the planting on the two sides of the valley” . Taking advantage of the steepness of Mim’s Park, the smallest of the city’s parks, the Olmsted Brothers wanted to build a “congregating place or resting place” to highlight the northwest and southern views. [Olmsted Brothers to Joel Hurt_1903-24-03_LOC-OAR-B-R97_im.33,30&29]
