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	Olmsted Brothers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Olmsted Brothers company was an extremely influential landscape design firm in the United States, formed in 1898 by step-brothers John Charles Olmsted (1852-1920) and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.
		This firm was a successor to the earlier firm of Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot after the untimely death of their gifted partner Charles Eliot.
		The two brothers were also among the founding members of the American Society of Landscape Architects, and played an influential role in creating the National Park Service.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Olmsted_Brothers (275 words)

	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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Frederick_Law_Olmsted (1160 words)

	City celebrates park pioneer Olmsted (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Seattle is celebrating its Olmsted Park Centennial this year, looking at the legacy of that effort to preserve some of the city's most breathtaking views of mountains and water for all to enjoy.
		In all, the Olmsted Brothers designed or influenced 37 parks and playgrounds, the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition grounds, the University of Washington campus, the Highlands housing subdivision and dozens of private home landscapes through the 1930s.
		As Olmsted toured the area by streetcar and tugboat and on foot, often trudging through dense brush and scaling steep hills, he took notes, outlining possible plans for a drive from Kinnear Park, west along Queen Anne Hill, along the bluff to Fort Lawton and through Ballard to Woodland Park.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /local/115362_olmsted02.shtml (1719 words)

	Olmsted Brothers -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Olmsted Brothers company was an extremely influential landscape design firm in the United States, formed in 1898 by step-brothers (Click link for more info and facts about John Charles Olmsted) John Charles Olmsted (1852-1920) and (Click link for more info and facts about Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.) Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.
		This firm was a successor to the earlier firm of Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot after the untimely death of their gifted partner (Click link for more info and facts about Charles Eliot) Charles Eliot.
		The two brothers were also among the founding members of the (Click link for more info and facts about American Society of Landscape Architects) American Society of Landscape Architects, and played an influential role in creating the (An agency of the Interior Department responsible for the National Parks) National Park Service.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/ol/olmsted_brothers.htm (371 words)

	Preservation Seattle - Preservation and the Environment: December 2002: The Olmsted Legacy
		In 1903, the Olmsted Brothers, descended from Frederick Law Olmsted (John Charles Olmsted, the primary designer in Seattle, was his nephew), conceived a city-wide park system in Seattle.
		The Friends of Seattle Olmsted Parks, the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department, the Center for Urban Horticulure and a number of other local organizations (including Historic Seattle) have planned a series of engaging and educational programs for 2003 to celebrate the significance of the Olmsted Brothers' contribution to Seattle's history and identity.
		Frederick Law Olmsted asserted that the ideal city should be configured around a system of parks, which he called "the lungs of the city." Nephew, John Charles Olmsted (1852-1920) and son Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
	historicseattle.org /preservationseattle/presenviron/defaultdec.htm (833 words)

	Countway Medical Library - Records Management - Image of the Month, July 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		John Olmsted was involved with the development of the Longwood campus from its inception, planning for the grading of the land and the orientation of the buildings.
		Olmsted's design called for sixteen different types of plants, shrubs, and trees, many of them indigenous to the region, including rhododendrons, andromedas, and lily of the valley shrubs.
		Olmsted pointed out that it would be many years before the trees were sufficiently tall to screen the windows of laboratories and classrooms.
	www.countway.med.harvard.edu /archives/iotm/iotm_2001-07.shtml (463 words)

	Seattle Parks and Recreation: Park History - Olmsted Parks
		The Olmsted Brothers had inherited the nation's first landscape architecture firm from their father, Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of New York's Central Park and the campus of the University of California at Berkeley.
		John C. Olmsted, the stepson of Frederick Law and the senior partner in the firm, spent several weeks in the summer of 1903 studying the topography of Seattle and its parks.
		Although J. Olmsted's primary goal was to locate a park or a playground within one half mile of every home in Seattle, the dominant feature of the plan was a 20-mile landscaped boulevard linking most of the existing and planned parks and greenbelts within the city limits.
	www.ci.seattle.wa.us /parks/parkspaces/olmsted.htm (632 words)

	Olmsted in Buffalo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
	preserve.bfn.org /bam/kowsky/kowold (6906 words)

	Architronic v6n1.03b
		Architecture in an Olmsted landscape is often considered subservient to or integrated with the picturesque effects sought in the carefully controlled vistas, usually seen from distances or various elevations.
		The heritage of the senior Olmsted's work, the use of deed restrictions, expression of picturesque design concepts, and conservation and enhancement of the natural landscape, was continued in the work of his progeny well into the twentieth century.
		The Brookline, Massachusetts-based Olmsted firm was no stranger to the California environment; the elder Olmsted did plans for campuses at the University of California, Berkeley (1866) and Stanford University (1888) and Olmsted Brothers worked on the development of Golden Gate Park and subdivisions in San Francisco.
	architronic.saed.kent.edu /v6n1/v6n1.03b.html (1324 words)

	Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site: Background (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Olmsted's legacy includes city and state parks, school and college campuses, institutional grounds, private estates, suburban communities, zoos, and arboretums.
		Olmsted was also a passionate advocate for the preservation of America's natural resources and the creation of state and national parks.
		Among the prominent American landscape architects who began their careers under Olmsted's tutelage were his sons, John Charles and Frederick, Jr., as well as Warren Manning, a pioneer in environmental planning and advocate for national parks, and Arthur Shurcliff, designer for Colonial Williamburg and Old Sturbridge Village.
	www.nps.gov /frla/background.htm (793 words)

	Journal of San Diego History
		The principals of Olmsted Brothers, John C. and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., were the sons of Frederick L. Olmsted, Sr., co-designer, with Calvert Vaux, of New York's Central Park in 1858, and most revered of all American landscape architects to the present day.
		Olmsted was unalterably opposed to building in the middle of the park because it would eliminate all chance of creating a sylvan, semi-rural respite from the city, which, as his father's work consistently taught, was the main function of a large urban park.
		But Olmsted Brothers replied that their decision was final and that they could not be a party to a deep, massive, permanent encroachment on Balboa Park's existing and potential natural landscape.
	www.sandiegohistory.org /journal/82winter/balboapark.htm (6974 words)

	Secret History: Frederick Law Olmsted
		Olmsted found the antebellum South to be a weird, beautiful, ignorant, promising, sometimes horrifying place.
		He was in his 50s in 1928 when he sold the Knoxville Journal and hired the famous Olmsted Brothers—a firm run by the ancient philosopher's sons—to design a dream: an arboretum with examples of all the trees native to Tennessee.
		In any case, Williams is convinced that Sanford ignored most of the Olmsteds' recommendations and allowed his gardener, Pleasant Wright, to design the arboretum as he saw fit.
	www.metropulse.com /dir_zine/dir_2000/1003/t_secret.html (864 words)

	Historical Essays - Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission
		Nolen, the Olmsteds, and Draper were part of a generation with a strong appreciation for nature.
		The Olmsted brothers, John Charles and Frederick Law, Jr., took over the firm in the decade before their father's death in 1903.
		Though the Olmsted street pattern was followed in only part of the enlargement of Dilworth, their concepts carry through the entire area.
	www.cmhpf.org /essays/Planning-Olmstead.html (1291 words)

	Tuftonia Online: Summer 1999
		In 1920 he became the senior partner in the Olmsted Brothers firm and found himself the leading figure in the new and fast-growing profession of landscape architecture.
		The Olmsted firm, in the hands of father and son, had been prolific, and many of their projects had been included on college campuses.
		The brothers selected the trees for preservation on the eastern slope, and the small garden area behind the gate immediately opposite Robinson Hall may also be their work.
	www.tufts.edu /alumni/tuftonia/archives/sum99/legacy.shtml (3269 words)

	Olmstead brothers birmingham alabama Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		and a rendering of the Olmsted Brothersâ€™ proposed parks for 1924.
		Ref.5: Olmsted Brothers or Olmsted Associates or Association as the firm was...
		Olmsted Brothers were concerned about the planting of a variety of trees...
	alabama.10netcore6.info /alabama-cities/olmstead-brothers-birmingham-alabama.html (324 words)

	HistoryLink Essay: Olmsted Parks in Seattle -- A Snapshot History
		Olmsted and his assistant Percy Jones arrived on April 30 and immediately began to survey the city.
		The 1903 report was the beginning of a relationship between the Olmsted Brothers and Seattle that lasted until 1941.
		The Olmsted Brothers designed the grounds for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, held in 1909 on the University of Washington campus.
	www.historylink.org /essays/output.cfm?file_id=1124 (992 words)

	What Dreams We Have (Chapter 12)
		One of the first and largest plans to memorialize the brothers was developed in 1912 by a committee of Dayton citizens who planned a memorial science museum honoring the Wrights.
		The Wright Memorial Committee also contacted the landscape architecture firm Olmsted Brothers in regards to planning "a suitable enclosure and approaches to this marker [that Borglum was designing]." The committee had retained one acre at the Huffman Prairie Flying Field from Torrence Huffman for the location of the memorial.
		Olmsted Brothers presented a preliminary plan for the Wright Memorial on April 26, 1938.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/daav/chap12.htm (8349 words)

	Environmental Design Archives Descriptive Narratives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Olmsted Brothers firm was formed in 1898 by John Charles Olmsted (1852-1920) and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr.
		The brothers were also among the founding members of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
		The Olmsted Brothers collection consists of a few planting plans for Saint Francis Wood (San Francisco) as well as a reproduction of the plan for Oakland’s Mountain View Cemetery, by Olmsted & Vaux.
	www.ced.berkeley.edu /cedarchives/profiles/olmstead.htm (128 words)

	Frederick Law Olmsted
		The National Association for Olmsted Parks, the nation's non-profit advocacy group for the preservation of historic parks, will hold a national conference at the historic George Eastman House in Rochester, New York from September 30 through October 3, 1999.
		Entitled "Recapturing Waterways in Historic Parks, Rochester's Olmsted Legacy in a National Context," the three-day conference is co-sponsored by the Monroe County Parks Department, the City of Rochester's Bureau of Parks and the National Park Service - Heritage Preservation Services.
		Viewing Olmsted - September-December, 1997 - A major Olmsted exhibit and associated programs to be held at various locations around Wellesley College and Greater Boston.
	www.newbedford.com /olmsted.html (768 words)

	Druid Hills Historic District--Atlanta: A National Register of Historic Places Travel Itinerary
		Druid Hills is also one of the major works by the eminent landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and his successors, the Olmsted Brothers, and their only such large-scale work in Atlanta.
		Olmsted, nationally known for his work at South Park in Chicago, Prospect Park in Brooklyn, and the grounds of the Capitol in Washington, D.C., was to prepare preliminary overall plans and designs.
		By 1893, Olmsted's preliminary plan called for a broad, curving, divided major avenue (Ponce de Leon Ave.), with a succession of public parks in the median, bordered by large estates.
	www.cr.nps.gov /nr/travel/atlanta/dru.htm (488 words)

	Welcome to The Olmsted from Masterson's Catering (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		he Olmsted, located on an 81 acre site which is the campus of the former Masonic Widows and Orphans Home at 3701 Frankfort Avenue in southeast Louisville, was constructed between 1925 and 1927.
		Designed by the architectural firm of Joseph and Joseph, the buildings were arranged around an elongated oval plan with the building located on the outer edge of the property.
		The Olmsted Brothers were well recognized in Louisville, having designed numerous other projects here since the late nineteenth century.
	www.mastersons.com /olmsted (203 words)

	Article - The Olmsteds and Seattle's Park System: A Brief Perspective by Arthur Lee Jacobson
		For example, a national convention of Olmsted enthusiasts was held in Seattle last fall, in conjunction with the official celebration of the city's park system centennial.
		The Olmsted Brothers were, at the turn of the century, a nationally recognized and prestigious landscape architectural firm which operated out of Brookline, Massachusetts.
		John Charles Olmsted, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and James Frederick Dawson were the three principal individuals involved during the course of the Seattle park work.
	www.arthurleej.com /a-olmsted.html (1939 words)

	A Green Shrouded Miracle: TOC
		The Olmsted report, dated October 5, 1925, was extremely positive in regard to recreational potential and preserving the scenic beauty of the Cuyahoga Valley.
		The Olmsted report conceded that preserving the Cuyahoga Valley’s scenery meant special controls for “unsightly development of any noticeable part of that landscape, whether in the bottom land or on the enclosing banks, would very largely destroy the beauty--and so the park value--of the entire scene.
		The Olmsted Brothers envisioned that “one or more routes be secured for pleasure drives” along the Ohio and Erie Canal and on the “brinks or part way up the sides of the valley.”
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/Cuyahoga/chapter2.htm (4747 words)

	Neighborhood Planning (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Nolen and the Olmsteds brought the concept to Charlotte in 1911-12.
		Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., had developed the principles of sensitive urban design in the nineteenth century, but it was Nolen's generation that created "city planning" as a full-fledged profession to carry out those principles, with its own educational background and professional organizations.
		Nolen, Draper and the Olmsteds were not the only landscape architects active in Charlotte in the early years of the twentieth century.
	www.cmhpf.org /neighborhoods/NeighPlan.html (6230 words)

	Encyclopedia: Olmsted Brothers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Jump to: navigation, search Frederick Law Olmsted, oil painting by John Singer Sargent, 1895, Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822â€“August 28, 1903) was a United States landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park in New York City, the...
		Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the nationâ€™s foremost parkmaker.
		General plan for Fresh Pond Park, Cambridge, Massachusetts, by the Olmsted Brothers landscape design firm, 1897.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Olmsted-Brothers (720 words)

	Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site: Guide AR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site: Guide AR These records document the Olmsted firm’s employment patterns and operational methods, and detail services provided by the firm and the purchase of specific materials used for landscape design projects.
		The Olmsted firm used a variety of framed prints and portfolios in an active program of exhibition and presentation to enlighten clients, educate the public, and create a demand for their work.
		The Olmsted firm used these framed prints in an active exhibit program, which educated the public and created a demand for their work.
	www.nps.gov /frla/guide-ar.htm (1268 words)

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