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Delaware Park-Front Park System |
Buffalo, NY |
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Beacon Street Historic District |
Brookline, MA |
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Druid Hills Historic District |
Atlanta, GA |
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Druid Hills Parks and Parkways |
Atlanta, GA |
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Eastern Parkway |
New York City |
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Ocean Parkway |
New York City |
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Central Park, NYC |
Uptown |
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Lynn Woods Historic District |
Lynn, MA |
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West Village Historic District |
Buffalo, NY |
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Charlestown Heights |
Boston |
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Sudbrook Park |
Pikesville |
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Allentown Historic District |
Buffalo, NY |
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Yosemite Valley |
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Landward House |
Louisville, KY |
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Washington Park Historic District |
Albany |
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Olmstead Park System |
Louisville, KY |
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Point Chautauqua Historic District |
Maryville |
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North Easton Historic District |
Easton |
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Bushnell Park |
Hartford |
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HH Richardson Historic District of North Easton |
Easton |
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Beardsley Park |
Bridgeport, CT |
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Roxbury High Fort |
Boston |
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Theodore Roosevelt Island National Memorial |
Washington, DC |
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Robert Treat Paine Jr House, Waltham |
Waltham, MA |
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Kentmere Parkway |
Wilmington, DE |
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Olmsted Park System |
Brookline, MA |
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Falmouth Village Green Historic District |
Falmouth, MA |
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Olmsted Park System |
Boston |
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Lincoln Boyhood National Memorial |
Lincoln City |
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Fisher Hill Historic District |
Brookline, MA |
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Biltmore Shoe Store |
Asheville |
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Vandergrift Historic District |
Vandergrift |
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Lawrence Township Historic District |
Lawrence Township |
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Lincoln Institute Complex |
Simpsonville |
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Lawrenceville School |
Lawrence Township |
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Walnut Hill Park |
New Britain |
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Seaside Park |
Bridgeport, CT |
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Reid Hall, Manhattanville College |
Purchase, NY |
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Belle Isle |
Detroit |
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Hotel Henry |
Buffalo, NY |
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Arbor Lodge |
Nebraska City |
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Martin Luther King Jr Park |
Buffalo, NY |
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Seneca Park East and West |
City of Rochester |
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Washington Park |
Chicago |
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Pinehurst Historic District |
Pinehurst |
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Old Harbor Reservation Parkways, Metropolitan Park System of Greater Boston |
Boston |
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Wilcox Park Historic District |
Westerly, RI |
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Montauk Association Historic District |
Montauk |
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Parkside West Historic District |
Buffalo, NY |
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Casino-Congress Park-Circular Street Historic District |
Saratoga Springs, NY |
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Cazenovia Park-South Park System |
Buffalo, NY |
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| 1822/04/26 |
Frederick Law Olmsted is born in Hartford, Connecticut to Charlotte Law (Hull) Olmsted and John Olmsted, a prosperous merchant. |
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Frederick Law Olmsted's Birthday |
| 1850/04/27 |
John and F L Olmsted travel to England. Fredrick is especially impressed with the landscape in Birkenhead Park, the first publicly funded park in Britain. |
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Remains Of Birkenhead Priory |
Birkenhead |
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| 1851/01/00 |
After courting Emily on and off for years, Fred Olmsted pursues marriage with Emily Perkins. Taking her to literary evenings and book clubs on his visits to Hartford and for rides in a horse-drawn cutter over the ice. |
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Marriage of Emily Baldwin Perkins and Edward Everett Hale |
| 1853/06/14 |
The New York Times reports how, after getting lost looking for the nearby White Hall Plantation, Frederick Law Olmsted visits Dublin plantation. |
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Richmond Hill Plantation |
Richmond Hill |
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| 1867/10/19 |
Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, Prospect Park is established. |
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Prospect Park |
New York City |
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| 1870/00/00 |
Riverside, Illinois is established, the 1600 acre community was built 1868 to 1870 |
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Riverside Landscape Architecture District |
Riverside |
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| 1874/06/00 |
Not realizing the difficulties involved in establishing an arboretum, Sargent writes to Frederick Olmsted that the City of Boston might provide the needed money. For the rest of their careers, Olmsted and Sargent will remain frequent collaborators. |
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Arnold Arboretum |
Boston |
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| 1875/00/00 |
From 1872 to 1874, the Asylum commissions Frederick Olmsted and a civil engineer Joseph Curtis to conduct site surveys on a new location for the hospital. In 1875, the Trustees buy 107 acres on Wellington Hill in Belmont from the Waverley Land Company. |
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McLean Hospital National Register District |
Belmont, MA |
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| 1875/00/00 |
Designed by Frederick Olmsted, Charles Butler builds gardens and greenhouses (lost) on his Fox Meadow Estate in the 1870's partly as a worthwhile hobby for an invalid son. |
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Wayside Cottage, Junior League of Central Westchester |
Scarsdale, NY |
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| 1880/00/00 |
278 Warren St, 1880, George Harvey architect. Bertol Schlesinger hires Frederick Law Olmsted Sr to landscape his estate, Southwood, in 1879. Completed between 1880 and 1890, the grounds helped established the reputation of the firm in Brookline. |
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Green Hill Historic District |
Brookline, MA |
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| 1883/00/00 |
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Frederick Law Olmsted House, National Historic Site |
Brookline, MA |
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| 1886/00/00 |
The landscaped around the Vanderbilt mausoleum install per a design by Frederick L Olmsted. |
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Moravian Cemetery, Staten Island |
New York City |
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| 1887/00/00 |
William Cutting begins planting his conifer collection based on plans by the landscape architectural firm of Frederick Law Olmstead |
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Bayard Cutting Arboretum |
Islip, NY |
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| 1888/00/00 |
Beginning in 1888, Frederick L Olmsted designs an estate for William C Loring at 441 Hale street in Beverly. Olmsted starts by having the grounds cleared by removing damaged trees and soil. His plan includes a 1500-foot driveway. |
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Loring Estates Prides Crossing |
Beverly |
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| 1892/10/12 |
World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago is dedicated, celebrating the 400th anniversary of Columbus arriving in the New World. Due to construction delays, the Chicago World's Fair will not not open until May, 1893. |
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Jackson Urban Park, Chicago |
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World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago |
| 1893/00/00 |
A contract is signed in 1893, with Moses Williams, an Olmsted client and neighbor, serving as the head of the building committee for the Olmsted firm to advise landscape development. Frederick Law Olmsted Sr donates most of the plant material. |
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First Parish Unitarian Church |
Brookline, MA |
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| 1893/00/00 |
Wooded Island is developed as the focal point of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. |
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Wooded Island |
Jackson Urban Park, Chicago |
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World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago |
| 1894/05/08 |
A state law provides for a commission to plan for laying out, acquiring and maintaining public open space. One of this commission's first acts was to hire Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot, with the goal of obtaining the personal services of F L Olmsted Sr. |
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Anderson Park |
Montclair |
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| 1895/00/00 |
Frederick Law Olmsted - created |
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Frederick Law Olmsted |
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| 1895/00/00 |
Olmsted designs a garden near the house, an 80000 acres Forest (Pisgah National Forest) and a 9 mile arboretum from the house to the French Broad river and back |
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Biltmore Estate |
Asheville |
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| 1897/06/00 |
Frederick and Mary Olmsted move into their summer retirement home. Frederick Olmsted's mental heath continues to deteriorate. |
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Frederick Law Olmsted Summer Home |
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| 1898/00/00 |
Due to increasing senility, Frederick Law Olmsted is admitted to McLean Hospital in Massachusetts. |
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McLean Hospital National Register District |
Belmont, MA |
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| 1903/08/28 |
Frederick Law Olmsted passes away at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts. |
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McLean Hospital National Register District |
Belmont, MA |
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