Top : Arts : Architecture : History : Architects : O :
Olmsted, Frederick Law
Websites
Article from Atlantic Unbound on the biography by Rybczynski of Frederick Law Olmsted - 'A Clearing in the Distance', which aims to tell the story of 19th-century America through landscape architecture.
site exerpt
The Atlantic Online This article is viewable only by Atlantic subscribers. If you are not yet a subscriber, please consider subscribing online now. In addition to receiving a full year (ten issues) of...S. M. Broderick gives an illustrated history of America's oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and his partner Calvert Vaux.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7172
New York Times review of Witold Rybczynski's book on Frederick Law Olmsted, who co-designed New York City's Central Park and was among the first to call himself a landscape architect.
site exerpt
Hartford History: Olmsted book Century first appeared in the New York Times on June 13, 1999. It was written by Suzanna Lessard and is reprinted here with her permission. Beginning about 1870, Olmsted called...Photographs of the landscape architect and his grave in Old North Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut, from Find A Grave.
site exerpt
Find A Grave Millions of Cemetery Records and Online Memorials Enter a name for immediate results: First Name Last Name I found my brother! It's like we've always known each other Pam from CA Advertisement Remove the ads from this...Portrait by Sargent, biography, and list of projects from the John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery by Natasha Wallace.
site exerpt
Frederick Law Olmsted I have all my life been considering distant effects and sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future Fredrick Law Olmsted Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is widely recognized...Written in 1865 by Frederick Law Olmsted when he served briefly as one of the first Commissioners appointed to manage the grant of the Yosemite Valley.
http://yosemite.ca.us/history/olmsted/
Rod Davis provides a photograph and brief biography, with related web links, most with short descriptions.
site exerpt
OLMSTED, Frederick Law [1822-1903 American landscape architect American landscape architect Relationship to me: Cousin OLMSTEAD family ODT Contents: Chronology Bookmarks (off-site links) Footnotes Page services He is generally considered to have invented the profession. Prior to taking...