The Stonehurst mansion in Waltham, Massachusetts, built in 1886 and shown here in 2022, was designed by Henry Hobson Richardson in collaboration with landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. It ...

WHERE: North Carolina Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way. avl.mx/92b WHEN: Tuesday, April 26, 3:30 p.m. (book signing); Thursday, April 28, 6:30 p.m., in conversation via Zoom with Drake ...

Asheville-based writer Dennis Drabelle’s latest book, The Power of Scenery: Frederick Law Olmsted and the Origin of National Parks, began as a means of honoring the 150th anniversary of the ...

"Olmsted in Buffalo and Niagara," the first history and guidebook written about the visionary landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and the remarkable park systems he designed in Western New York ...

Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. (1822-1903), the founder of American landscape architecture, didn’t think such grayness was inevitable.

Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed Central Park with Calvert Vaux, lived in a home on Staten Island in the 1840s and 1850s. The city hopes to renovate and restore it.

In 1850, Frederick, his brother John and a friend talked father Olmsted into underwriting a “walking tour” of England – an experience that changed his life.

<p>Frederick Law Olmsted was born in Hartford in 1822. When he was 3 his mother died, and there was then a stepmother and other children while he was sent away to a series of rather odd schools ...