A resource page on the life and works of Frderick Law Olmsted, the greatest of 19th century American landscape architects, whose projects included New York's Central Park, the Emerald Necklace of Boston, the U.S. Capitol grounds, and many more parks and landscapes in the United States.

A conversation with Witold Rybczynski, whose biography of Frederick Law Olmsted tells a story of nineteenth-century America through landscape architecture July 14, 1999 In his new biography of Frederick Law Olmsted, A Clearing in the Distance, Witold Rybczynski vividly evokes the extraordinary life of the man responsible for the pastoral oases that remain in the midst of many of our congested ...

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Looks at the work of landscape architect Olmsted's work in the Yosemite Valley in the context of the myth of the West.

Home A - Z Bookstore Art Prints History Muir Weather FAQ Lodging Forum Search Yosemite History: Frederick Law Olmsted, Landscape Architect Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove: A Preliminary Report, 1865. Introduction Written in 1865 by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted when he served briefly as one of the first Commissioners appointed to manage the grant of the Yosemite Valley and the ...