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.
References
- Beveridge, Charles E, and Paul Rocheleau, Frederick Law Olmsted: Designing the American Landscape, Universe Publishing, NY, NY 1998
- Guide to Biltmore Estates, The Biltmore Company, Asheville North Carolina 2003
- Hall, Lee, Olmsted?s America: An "Unpractical" Man and His Vision of Civilization, A Bullfinch Press Book, Boston, MA 1995
- Olmsted, Frederick Law, A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy 1856
- Rybczynski, Witold, A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century, New York: Scribner 1999
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