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	Frederick Law Olmsted - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Olmsted and Vaux continued their informal partnership to design Prospect Park in Brooklyn from 1866 to 1868, and other projects.
		Olmsted not only created city parks in many cities around the country, he also conceived of entire systems of parks and interconnecting parkways which connected certain cities to green spaces.
		Olmsted was a frequent collaborator with Henry Hobson Richardson for whom he devised the landscaping schemes for half a dozen projects, including Richardson's commission for the Buffalo State Asylum.
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	NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Frederick Law Olmsted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Frederick Law Olmsted, by John Singer Sargent, public domain, 1895 This image has been released into the public domain by the copyright holder, its copyright has expired, or it is ineligible for copyright.
		Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the nationâ€™s foremost parkmaker.
		Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best remembered today as a landscape designer, well known for his plans for New York's Central Park and Prospect Park, the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., and the campus of Stanford University, among other noteworthy sites.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Frederick-Law-Olmsted (5428 words)

	Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic: Home
		From this location, Olmsted and his successors designed thousands of public and private landscapes over the course of a century, forever changing the face of our nation.
		Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, established in 1979, transcends the traditional role of a historic house museum by also serving as a center for the study and preservation of American landscapes.
		This mission is being accomplished through the combined efforts of the Olmsted Archives, the Landscape Education Program and the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation.
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	FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED - LoveToKnow Article on FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Olmsted was made superintendent to carry out the plan.
		Olmsted received honorary degrees from Harvard, Amherst and Yale in 1864, 1867 and 1893.
		On the 8th of May, however, the amended constitution was submitted, on Rouhers advice, to a plebiscite, which resulted in a vote of nearly seven to one in favor of the government.
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	Frederick Law Olmsted - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Olmsted took the view that the practice of slavery was, besides being morally odious, also expensive and economically inefficient.
		After completing Central Park, Olmsted served as Executive Secretary of the, a precursor to the Red Cross in Washington D.C. which tended to the wounded during the Civil War.
		Olmsted was a frequent collaborator with Henry Hobson Richardson for whom he devised the landscaping schemes for half a dozen projects, including H.H. Richardson's commission for the Buffalo State Asylum.
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	Olmsted in Buffalo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Olmsted to Dorsheimer, 6 August 1868, Frederick Law Olmsted Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. Dorsheimer was a member of the Century Club in New York City and a former functionary of the Sanitary Commission, roles that may have led to personal contact with Olmsted.
		Olmsted and Vaux anticipated that their park system would be eventually extended to benefit the southern part of the city, where most of the working-class population lived.
		Olmsted and Vaux's parkways and avenues were designed to foster this suburbanization of the city, a notion that Olmsted regarded as an advance almost as important as the park movement itself.
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	Frederick Law Olmsted - Bushnell Park, Hartford, CT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Frederick Law Olmsted is considered the father of the American park movement because of his strong influence in establishing parks throughout the nation.
		Olmsted saw the value of placing green, open spaces within cities, and was aware of the many problems that faced the country.
		Frederick Law Olmsted also believed in the intrinsic value of parks and open ground in what he saw as a nurturing of democracy, a banishment of crudeness and in the beneficial mixing of all kinds of people in this common meeting ground.
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		It was Downing who introduced Olmsted to English-born architect Calvert Vaux ; Downing had died a tragic death in 1852 and in his honor Olmsted and Vaux entered the Central Park design competition together and won.
		In 1883 Olmsted established his landscape architecture firm in Brookline, Massachusetts, where he designed Boston's Emerald Necklace, the campus of Stanford University and the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago among many other of his projects.
		OLMSTED FALLS _ A 46-year-old Olmsted Falls man and his 18-year-old son will face a Cuyahoga County grand jury on charges of growing marijuana at their Lewis Road home.
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		The largest intact system of parks and parkways designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in the country, including Delaware Park, said to be a model for Olmsted's Central Park in NYC.
		Writer Frederick Law Olmsted and English architect Calvert Vaux developed the so-called "Greensward Plan", which was selected as the winning design.
		This was upon the advice of Frederick Law Olmsted, the renowned consulting landscape architect who also conceptualized the Emerald Necklace public spaces of Boston and New York's Central Park, among other famous open spaces.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/F/Frederick-Law-Olmsted.htm (1016 words)

	National Park Service: Biography (Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.)
		Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., was approached by the American Civic Association in 1910 for advice on the creation of a new bureau of national parks.
		Olmsted, Jr., was appointed by the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia in 1901 to help update the L'Enfant plan for Washington, D.C. By 1920 his better-known projects included plans for metropolitan park systems and greenways across the country; in 1929 he developed the guiding plan for California's state park system.
		Olmsted, Jr., also established the first formal training in landscape architecture at Harvard in 1900 and was a founding member and later president of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/sontag/olmsted.htm (401 words)

	Frederick Law Olmsted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Because military camps were notorious for their filth and accompanying diseases, Olmsted sent out inspectors to assess and make suggestions for remedying the problems.
		Olmsted's biggest battle was with the Army Medical Bureau, which was run by stodgy old men.
		Olmsted worked with such vigor and energy at his job that his health was greatly impaired, and he had to resign from the commission in 1864.
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	Frederick Law Olmsted
		Frederick Law Olmsted was America's outstanding landscape architect of the 19th century.
		Olmsted's designs were characterized by the re-creation of natural features and the use of wandering paths and roads.
		Olmsted was an apt choice for the Retreat, since he himself believed deeply in the restorative power of landscapes that recalled the beauties of Nature.
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	Olmsted, Frederick Law on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When Central Park in New York City was projected (1856), Olmsted and Calvert Vaux prepared the plan that was accepted two years later, and Olmsted superintended its execution.
		Olmsted also took an interest in the creation of college campuses, e.g., Berkeley (1864), and state and national parks.
		Olmsted gets his due: cities across the U.S. celebrate a legacy of parks, boulevards, and parkways: on an old postcard, Seattle's Lake Washington Boulevard is an eyeful, with its super-saturated greens, blue water, winding road, and white-capped Mount Rainier set close against an azure sky.(Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/o/olmsted.asp (463 words)

	Today in History: April 26
		Frederick Law Olmsted, nineteenth-century America's foremost landscape architect, was born on April 26, 1822.
		After the outbreak of the Civil War, Olmsted requested a leave of absence from his work as architect-in-chief of Central Park to serve as general secretary of the newly formed Sanitary Commission.
		In 1874 Frederick Law Olmsted was commissioned to plan and oversee the renovation of the U.S. Capitol grounds.
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	Olmsted, Frederick Law
		Olmsted was a the leading landscape architect of the post-Civil War generation, and has long been acknowledged as the founder of American landscape architecture.
		Frederick Law Olmsted (1822 - 1903) was born in Hartford, Connecticut.
		Olmsted had begun work on a park system for the City of Boston, eventually he focused much of his time on the Emerald Necklace.
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	Frederick Law Olmsted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Olmsted's friend and mentor Andrew Jackson Downing landscape architect from Newburgh New York first proposed the development of Central as publisher of The Horticulturist magazine.
		After completing the Central Park project Olmsted as Executive Secretary of the U.S. Sanitary a precursor to the Red Cross in Washington D.C. which tended to the wounded during Civil War.
		Frederick Law Olmstead travelled extensively throughout the south during the antebellum period, as reflected in this book.
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	Yosemite History: Frederick Law Olmsted, Landscape Architect
		Olmsted read the Report to his fellow Commissioners at a meeting in the Yosemite Valley on August 9, 1865; ultimately intended for presentation to the state legislature, it met with indifference or hostility from other members of the Commission, and was quietly suppressed.
		Olmsted himself left California for good at the end of 1865; he had arrived there just a little more than two years before to assume responsibilities as Superintendent for the Mariposa Mining Estate.
		Olmsted scholar Laura Wood Roper surmised that Olmsted had removed that portion of the Report in order to incorporate it in the letter; her explanation has been generally accepted by other scholars, and a typescript of the relevant portion of the letter is accordingly included here as part of the Report’s transcription."
	www.yosemite.ca.us /history/olmsted (477 words)

	Frederick Law Olmsted
		Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is widely recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the nation's foremost parkmaker.
		Olmsted was in very poor health -- though his use of the cane actually came from a riding accident he suffered as a younger man when he was working on Central park from which he never fully recovered.
		Together, Vaux and Olmsted worked and oversaw the construction of the new park, but continual political battles in maintaining the integrity of their plan and fights over patronage and other issues came to ahead by 1861 (the start of the war).
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	Preservation
		Olmsted and the firm that continued his work after his retirement also designed several parkways and small neighborhood parks.
		When Olmsted suggested setting aside the land for Highland, Genesee Valley and Seneca Parks, some people thought it unnecessary to set aside so much land so far from the center of the city, in relatively undeveloped areas where open land was plentiful.
		As Olmsted expected, the parks were not on the fringes for very long, as the city quickly grew to surround them.
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	Information about U.S. FDC: 33¢ Frederick Law Olmsted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Frederick Law Olmsted was born on April 26, 1822, at Hartford, Connecticut.
		Olmsted went on to design Prospect Park, Brooklyn (1865), Mount Royal Park, Montreal (1873), the grounds for the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. (1874), the Boston park system (1875), Stanford University (1886) and the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago (1893).
		Among Olmsted's written works are Public Parks and the Enlargement of Towns (1871) and A Consideration of the justifying Value of a Public Park (1881).
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	Frederick Law Olmsted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Those are the questions that the Frederick Law Olmsted Societyâs biennial housewalk, scheduled for Sunday, May 21 in Riverside will seek to answer.
		It was hardly the vision Frederick Law Olmsted had in mind when he designed the park in the 1870's to give people access to the water and a bit of serenity.
		Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century by Witold Rybczynski, (New York: Scribner, 1999).
	www.wikiverse.org /frederick-law-olmsted (609 words)

	Who was Frederick Law Olmsted? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Olmsted also managed the largest gold mine in California, and was instrumental in preserving Yosemite and Niagara Falls as national parks.
		Olmsted is also credited, together with his partner Calvert Vaux, with creating one of the first modern American suburbs--Riverside.
		Riverside was the first fully realized rendering of Olmsted's ideal suburb: a compromise between private and public, between domesticity and community, between the city and the country.
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	Frederick Law Olmsted
		Frederick Law épousera 13 juin 1859, dans la maison Bogardus de Central Park, sa belle-soeur, Mary Cleveland Bryant, veuve de son frère John Hull décédé le 28 novembre 1857.
		Olmsted s'associera avec le jeune architecte britannique Calvert Vaux jusqu'en 1864.
		Frederick Law Olmsted prendra sa retraite en 1895.
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	Explore DC: Frederick Law Olmsted
		Initially, Congress balked appropriating the money for such a lavish project (Olmsted would wait 10 years for the money to build the terrace on the west front of the Capitol) but the results were worth the wait.
		On hot days, they could linger in the summerhouse built into the northwest section of the grounds or shelter under the shade of the massive trees on the east side of the building which had once been part of two barbecue groves— one for the Democrats and one for the Whigs.
		Olmsted's vision for the Capitol and its grounds was augmented by his son's ambitious ideas for the whole Washington region.
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	National Park Service History: Philosophical Underpinnings of the National Park Idea
		In 1864 Abraham Lincoln authorized the transfer of the Yosemite Valley to the state of California for "public use, resort and recreation." Frederick Law Olmsted was appointed chairman of the board of commissioners established to oversee the administration of the park, and he formulated a theory of use for this new type of land.
		Olmsted, the preeminent landscape architect of the 19th century, presented more than a theory of use, he articulated a philosophy of leisure based on nature's regenerative powers for an urbanizing society.
		Olmsted was not an advocate of wilderness, rather he thought it most appropriate that parks have restaurants and hotels and carriage paths and trails so that a leisurely appreciation of nature was possible.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/hisnps/NPSThinking/underpinnings.htm (2079 words)

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