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.

Other notable Olmsted commissions

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• Athens Lunatic Asylum, Athens, Ohio
• Audubon Park, New Orleans, Louisiana
• The Back Bay Fens, Riverway, Arnold Arboretum, Franklin Park, Boston, Massachusetts
• Beardsley Park, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1884
• Belle Isle, Detroit, Michigan, landscaped in the 1880s
• Biltmore Estate grounds, Asheville, North Carolina
• Branch Brook Park, Newark, New Jersey, 1900 redesign
• Buffalo State Asylum, Buffalo, New York
• Central Park, New York City, 1853 (opened in 1856)
• Cherokee Park, Louisville, Kentucky
• Chicago South Park, Chicago, Illinois
• Civic Center Park, Denver
• Cushing Island, Maine
• Highland Park, Rochester, New York
• Institute of Living, Hartford, Connecticut, 1860's
• Manor Park, Larchmont, New York
• Montebello Park, St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada http://www.st.catharines.com/recreation/pt/montebello_park.asp
• Mount Royal Park, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, inaugurated in 1876
• Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California, dedicated in 1865
• Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York, finished 1868
• Public Pleasure Grounds for San Francisco, California
• Seaside Park, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 1860s
• The Rockery, Easton, Massachusetts
• United States Capitol Grounds, Washington D.C.
• World's End, formerly the John Brewer Estate, Hingham, Massachusetts, 1889
• World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois, 1893
• Seattle Olmsted Parks, Seattle, Washington, begun 1903.