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Olmsted and designed
The original " inner quad " buildings ( 1887 – 91 ) were designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Francis A. Walker, Charles Allerton Coolidge, and Leland Stanford himself.
The current grounds were designed by noted American landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who planned the expansion and landscaping performed from 1874 to 1892.
Olmsted also designed the Summer House, the open-air brick building that sits just north of the Capitol.
Although the White House grounds have had many gardeners through their history, the general design, still largely used as master plan today, was designed in 1935 by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. of the Olmsted Brothers firm, under commission from President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Chicago Columbian Exposition was, in large part, designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmsted.
A popular myth says that Frederick Law Olmsted, who had died the year before the Fair, designed the park and fair grounds.
Prior to this, in contrast with the more experienced Vaux, Olmsted had never actually designed and executed a landscape design.
When Olmsted returned to New York, he and Vaux designed Prospect Park ; suburban Chicago's Riverside parks ; the park system for Buffalo, New York ; Milwaukee, Wisconsin's grand necklace of parks ; and the Niagara Reservation at Niagara Falls.
Two of the best examples of the scale on which Olmsted worked are the park system designed for Buffalo, New York, one of the largest projects ; and the system he designed for Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
From there Olmsted designed Boston's Emerald Necklace, the campuses of Stanford University and the University of Chicago, as well as the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, among many other projects.
The oldest of these parks, Deering Oaks, had been designed by City Engineer William Goodwin in 1879 but is today frequently described as a Frederick Law Olmsted designed park.
With elements designed for the original Andrew Mellon estate by the renowned Olmsted Brothers, the Chatham campus was designated an arboretum in 1998 by the American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta.
The campus was designed and landscaped between 1896 and 1922 by the landscape architecture firm of Olmsted and Sons.
It was designed and planned by Dr. John Nolan of Boston, Massachusetts, and the Olmsted Brothers, the landscaping firm of Frederick Law Olmsted's sons, Frederick Jr and John Charles.
The area also includes The Rockery, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who also landscaped grounds of Oakes Ames Memorial Hall and the Ames Free Library.
The campus was designed in part by noted landscape designers Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, and has subsequently been designated an arboretum ( the Bryn Mawr Campus Arboretum ).
In 1908, John C. Olmsted designed a private garden for M. Carey Thomas adjoining the Deanery.
Forest Park, a city park of designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who is most famous for designing New York City's Central Park, is comparably diverse and ornate.
The campus was planned and planted in the 1890s as a botanical garden and arboretum, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.
It was designed by E. Townsend Mix, who also designed Minneapolis's Metropolitan Building, and the outdoor landscape was laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted.

Olmsted and numerous
Olmsted not only created numerous city parks around the country, he also conceived of entire systems of parks and interconnecting parkways to connect certain cities to green spaces.
At the same time as the city was expanding dramatically, the city planners began to put in parks and boulevards under a plan designed by the Olmsted Firm, providing numerous parks and about twenty miles of boulevard which link most of the parks and greenbelts within the city limits.
The Olmsted Brothers completed numerous high-profile projects, many of which remain popular to this day, including park systems, universities, exposition grounds, libraries, hospitals, residential neighborhoods and state capitols.

Olmsted and school
Other industrial encroachments and lack of public access led to a conservation movement in the U. S. known as Free Niagara, led by such notables as Hudson River school artist Frederic Edwin Church, landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted, and architect Henry Hobson Richardson.
There are two schools serving grades 3-5: Frederick Law Olmsted School and Henry Hobson Richardson School, both located in North Easton's school area.
The Olmsted Falls school system educates students from Olmsted Falls, parts of Columbia Station, part of Berea, and from neighboring Olmsted Township.
There are five schools in the school system, Early Childhood Center, Falls-Lenox Primary School, Olmsted Falls Intermediate School, Olmsted Falls Middle School, and Olmsted Falls High School.
In 1899, he aided Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. in founding America's first four-year landscape architecture school at Harvard University.
The athletic center was donated by Jon Corzine, former governor of New Jersey and parent of a recent Pomfret graduate, and the Student Union was donated by Robert Olmsted, an alumnus and long-time trustee of the school.
North Olmsted High School is a public high school located in the Cleveland suburb of North Olmsted, Ohio.
It is the only high school administered by the North Olmsted City School District.
Despite levy problems, North Olmsted High School continues to be awarded " Excellent " status on its school report card meeting 12 out of 12 state indicators for the 2006-2007 school year, as well as 2005-2006, 2004 – 2005, and 2003-2004.
The North Olmsted City School District is the public school district that serves the city of North Olmsted, Ohio, United States.
Despite levy problems, North Olmsted High School continues to be awarded " Excellent " status on its school report card meeting 12 out of 12 state indicators for the 2006-2007 school year, as well as 2005-2006, 2004-2005, and 2003-2004.
Chestnut, Maple, Pine and the North Olmsted Middle School earned " Effective " status for the 2006-2007 school year.

Olmsted and college
When the young Olmsted was almost ready to enter Yale College, as a graduate of Phillips Academy in 1838, sumac poisoning weakened his eyes so he gave up college plans.
After the destruction of the central College Hall in 1914, the college adopted a master plan developed by Central Park landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., Arthur Shurcliff, and Ralph Adams Cram in 1921 and expanded into several new buildings.
Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., Boston's preeminent landscape architect at the beginning of the 20th century, described Wellesley's landscape as " not merely beautiful, but with a marked individual character not represented so far as I know on the ground of any other college in the country.
Medaille College a private liberal arts college located in the historic Olmsted Crescent of Buffalo, New York, that draws extensively from the Western New York and Southern Ontario regions.
In 1916, the college sought the expertise of the Frederick Law Olmsted & Sons architectural firm, the founder of which had designed Central Park in New York City.

Olmsted and campuses
Andrew Jackson Downing and Frederick Law Olmsted adapted European styles for North America, especially influencing public parks, campuses and suburban landscapes.

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