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.

External links

• Celebration of the life and work of Olmsted
• Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Mass.
• H.H. Richardson State Hospital — Grounds by F.L. Olmsted
• Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy
• Olmsted and Vaux in Buffalo, New York
• Olmsted in Buffalo, New York
• Seattle, Washington's extensive Olmsted park system, designed by his firm.
• Frederick Law Olmsted, Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove: A Preliminary Report (1865)
• Frederick Law Olmsted Day Almost Official in Connecticut
• Bridgeport Parks Department History of Seaside Park
• National Register of Historic Places, Fairfield County, CT p. 1 (Includes reference to Beardsley Park)
• National Register of Historic Places, Fairfield County, CT p. 5 (Includes reference to Seaside Park)
• Mr. Lincoln and New York: Frederick Law Olmstead