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OLMSTED, Frederick Law [1822-1903] -- American landscape architect

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He is generally considered to have invented the profession. Prior to taking up landscape design, Olmsted traveled throughout the antebellum South, writing on conditions there, especially as relating to the institution of slavery.

He was responsible for a large number of park designs, both public and private, either alone or in collaboration with other architects, notably Calvert Vaux. Works include Manhattan's Central Park, the Ashville, NC, Biltmore estate of George Washington Vanderbilt, and Downing Park of Newburgh, NY.

F.L.O. and Andrew Jackson Downing

The park at Newburgh was dedicated to his friend and mentor, Andrew Jackson Downing, who had tragically died at an early age. Downing's work had a profound influence on Olmsted, and it was he who introduced him to Calvert Vaux, who was to become his partner in the New York Central Park project -- which Downing had proposed some years earlier -- and numerous other projects. Olmsted wrote numerous articles for Downing's magazine, The Horticulturalist.  -30-
 

Chronology

Selected works by FLO alone or in collaboration, or by his firm.

1858-1876
Central Park, NYC1
1865
Campus of UC Berkeley1
1865-1867
San Francisco Public Grounds
1865-1895
NYC Prospect Park1
1865-1899
Washington Univ., St. Louis, MO3
1866
Columbia Institute for the Deaf and Dumb (now Gallaudet Univ.) Washington, DC1
1867-1873
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY1
1870-1872
Tarrytown Heights residential community, NY1
1870-1920
Downing Park, Newburgh, NY1
1872-1894
Trinity College, Hartford
1874-1881
Yale Univ., New Haven
1875-1894
US Capitol grounds, Washington, DC
1880s
First scientifically managed forest in U.S. (Biltmore)
1881-1895
Belle Isle, Detroit, MI
1883-1901
Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, NJ
1886-1914
Stanford Univ., Palo Alto, CA2
1888-1893
World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, IL2
1890-1906
National Zoological Park, Washington, DC2
1891-1909
Smith College, Northampton, MA2
1891-1909
Biltmore Estate, Asheville, NC2
1895-1927
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, PA3
1896-1922
Mt Holyoke College, So. Hadley, MA3
1896-1932
Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY3
1898/09
First school of forestry (Biltmore)
1900-1906
Brown Univ., Providence, RI3
1901-1910
Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL3
1902-1912
Williams College, Williamstown, MA3
1902-1920
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA3
1903
Lewis and Clark Exposition, Portland, OR3
1903-1919
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD3
1925-1931
Harvard Business School, Cambridge, MA3
1925-1965
Duke University, Durham, NC3
1929-1932
University of Notre Dame, So. Bend, IN3

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Footnotes

1 With Calvert Vaux
2 FLO with his stepson John Charles Olmsted and, until 1893, Henry Sargent Codman
3 Charles Eliot and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. Also with John Charles Olmsted until 1920
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