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On Frederick Law Olmsted's 200th birthday, the National Association for Olmsted Parks celebrates the father of landscape architecture and his work.
It's often referred to as "New York City's Backyard." Central Park, or at least the idea for is is 150 years old this year, and New Yorkers have been celebrating with special concerts, exhibits ...
Michael J. Lewis reviews Justin Martin's "Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted." Frederick Law Olmsted saw a unity between landscape and social order—a park could be an emblem of ...
Tomorrow is the 192nd anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect — and journalist, conservationist, and public servant — who gave us Manhattan’s Central Park ...
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of landscape design great Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Prospect Park Alliance is celebrating his legacy with a mix of in-person and virtual events ...
‘Architects of an American Landscape’ Review: Genius by Design In the 19th century, American architects were expected to follow European trends. Henry Hobson Richardson begged to differ.
FREDERICK -- To his daughters, he was larger than life. To the citizens of Frederick, James Pearl was one of the community's early commercial artists and later, a favorite landscape ...