Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822–August 28, 1903) was a United States landscape architect, famous for designing many well-known urban parks, including Central Park in New York, New York, the country's oldest coordinated system of public parks and parkways in Buffalo, New York, the country's oldest state park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, New York, Mount Royal Park in Montreal, the Metropolitan Parks System in Boston, Massachusetts, Cherokee Park (and the entire parks and parkway system) in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as Jackson Park, Washington Park and Midway Plaisance in Chicago for the World's Columbian Exposition.

Academic campuses designed by Olmsted and sons

Between 1857 and 1950, Olmsted and his successors designed 355 school and college campuses. Some of the most famous are listed here.

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1857 - 1950

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• American University Main Campus, Washington, DC
• Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (1900-06)
• Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (1895-1927)
• Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (1867-73)
• Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (1925-65)
• Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. (1866)
• Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1925-31)
• Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania (1925-32)
• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (1903-19)
• Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey (1883-1901)
• Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan
• Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts (1896-1922)
• Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
• Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts (1891-1909)
• Stanford University, Palo Alto, California (1886-1914)
• Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut (1872-94)
• College of California, Berkeley, California (1865)
• University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1901-1910)
• University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
• University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana (1929-32)
• University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (1902-20)
• Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (1896-1932)
• Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri (1865-99)
• Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
• Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts (1902-12)
• Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (1874-81)