Frederick Law Olmstead
- Date Range
- April 26, 1822 – August 26, 1903
- Title
- Frederick Law Olmstead
- What occurred
- Frederick Law Olmstead was well known for his creation of the Olmsted Park System which includes parks like Boston Common, Boston Public Garden, and Arnold Arboretum. Though his work isn't limited to just Massachusetts he is responsible for the creation of the central park as well. Though he did a lot of work locally in the town of Brookline and in the process created a business where he passed his trade down to his children. His architectural work was so well received that he not only shaped the future development of landscape architecture but two members of the office, one being his son, designed the curriculum of landscape architecture education at Harvard and nationally. This all relates to what we learned in class because his works came to light because of the conservation movement and the more environmentally minded wealthy during the late 1870s-1900s also he did create a fair amount of parks in urban settings.
- Location
- 99 Warren Street Brookline, MA 02445
- Image Citation
- Morgan, Keith N., et al. Community by Design : The Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts Press, 2012. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/union/detail.action?docID=4533151. Created from union on 2021-11-16 01:09:21.Remaking Boston : An Environmental History of the City and Its Surroundings, edited by Anthony N. Penna, and Conrad Edick Wright, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/union/detail.action?docID=2039306. Created from union on 2021-11-16 01:19:25. U.S. Department of the Interior. (n.d.). Olmsted Park System (U.S. National Park Service). National Parks Service. Retrieved November 16, 2021, from https://www.nps.gov/places/olmsted-park-system.htm. Wikimedia Foundation. (2021, September 25). Frederick Law Olmsted. Wikipedia. Retrieved November 16, 2021, from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Law_Olmsted#/media/File:Portrait_of_Frederick_Law_Olmsted.jpg.
- Student name(s)
- andrew bassuk
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