Frederick Law Olmsted
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Frederick Law Olmsted was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is considered to be the father of landscape architecture in the United States. Olmste
Olmsted in 1893; engraving after a photograph
The Olmsted–Beil House in Staten Island
Olmsted in 1857
Olmsted and Vaux in 1863 adopted "landscape architect" as a professional title and used it to describe their work for the planning of urban park systems.
Central Park
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Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, and the first landscaped park in the United States. It is the sixth-largest p
Frederick Law Olmsted
…landscape architecture in the United States. Olmsted was famous for co-designing many well-known urban parks with his partner Calvert Vaux, beginning with Central Park in New York City, which led to numerous other urban park designs including Prospect Park in Brooklyn, Cadwalader Park in Trenton, New Jersey, and Forest…
Aerial view of southern Central Park in September 2014
Panoramic view of Central Park from Rockefeller Center in 2008
Central Park in 2004
John Randel Jr.'s surveying bolt