His father, John Olmsted, was a prosperous merchant who took a lively interest in nature, people, and places ; Frederick Law and his younger brother, John Hull, also showed this interest.

For unknown reasons, the Olmsted Brothers firm was dropped from the project, and an architect named Theodore Link, who was well known for designing Union Station in St. Louis, Missouri, took over the campus master plan.

In designing the watercourse Olmsted and Vaux also took advantage of the pre-existing glacier-formed kettle ponds and lowland outwash plains.

In the early 21st century, a pair of Great horned owls took up residence in the rafters of the Olmsted shelter.

The plan designed by John Charles Olmsted took advantage of the scenic views available from the site, including Mount St. Helens and the river.

First, Kessler in his twenties had worked briefly for Olmsted as a Central Park gardener.

Olmsted was famous for co-designing many well-known urban parks with his senior partner Calvert Vaux, including Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City.

After Downing died in July 1852, in a widely publicized steamboat explosion on the Hudson River, Olmsted and Vaux entered the Central Park design competition together, against Egbert Ludovicus Viele among others.

For example, in Central Park and Tompkins Square Park in New York City, stands of several large elms originally planted by Frederick Law Olmsted survive because of their isolation from neighboring areas in New York where there had been heavy mortality.

It is rumored that the " Swede " was Frederick Law Olmsted ( Central Park Fame ) who stayed at Sebastopol House in Seguin, Texas during his travels throughout the southern US.

They were the sons of Frederick Law Olmsted, renowned architect of Central Park.

In 1857, Frederick Olmsted, landscape architect of New York's Central Park, toured Seguin and described the Concrete City as " the prettiest town in Texas.

His essay " Frederick Law Olmsted and the Dialectical Landscape " was written in 1973 after Smithson had seen an exhibition curated by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers at the Whitney Museum entitled “ Frederick Law Olmsted ’ s New York ” as the cultural and temporal context for the creation of his late-19th-century design for Central Park.

In examining the photographs of the land set aside to become Central Park, Smithson saw the barren landscape that had been degraded by humans before Olmsted constructed the complex ‘ naturalistic ’ landscape that was viscerally apparent to New Yorkers in the 1970s.

Smithson further implies in this essay that what distinguishes the Picturesque is that it is based on real land For Smithson, a park exists as “ a process of ongoing relationships existing in a physical region ” Smithson was interested in Central Park as a landscape which by the 1970s had weathered and grown as Olmsted ’ s creation, but was layered with new evidence of human intervention.

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.

The conceptual plan for a new park and road was drawn by Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of the nearby Central Park.

* Montebello Park-Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1887, who went on to create New York City's Central Park.

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.

It is the smallest city to have a park designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the celebrated landscape architect who created Central Park in New York City.

The park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, the landscape architect who designed Central Park in New York as well as many other nationally known sites across the country.

Landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park, was also commissioned to design the landscape for the Twombly-Vanderbilt estate ( now the College at Florham campus ).

The park was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux after they completed Manhattan's Central Park.

In 1858 Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux created Central Park in Manhattan.

In 1859 for example, it was visited by Frederick Law Olmsted on his European tour of parks, and it had an influence on the planting in Central Park, New York.

The landscape was designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, who is noted for his design of Central Park in New York City and various other academic institutions.

The initial plan called for grade separations of transverse roadways through the park, as Frederick Law Olmsted had provided for Central Park, but budget constraints and the positioning of the Arboretum and the Concourse ended the plan.

In 1864, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, by now famous for their design of Central Park, were contracted to design the park, and constructed what was described in 1884 as " one of the most central, delightful, and healthful places for recreation that any city can boast.

Second, Olmsted was involved with Forest Park in Queens, New York.

Other projects that Olmsted has been involved in include the country's first and 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 ; one of the first planned communities in the United States, Riverside, Illinois ; Mount Royal Park in Montreal, Quebec ; the Emerald Necklace in Boston, Massachusetts ; the Emerald Necklace of parks in Rochester, New York ; Belle Isle Park, in the Detroit River for Detroit, Michigan ; Presque Isle Park in Marquette, Michigan ; the Grand Necklace of Parks in Milwaukee, Wisconsin ; Cherokee Park and entire parks and parkway system in Louisville, Kentucky ; the Forest Park in Springfield, Massachusetts, featuring America's first public " wading pool "; the George Washington Vanderbilt II Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina ; the master plans for the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University near Palo Alto, California ; and Montebello Park in St. Catharines, Ontario.

Olmsted and Vaux continued their informal partnership to design Prospect Park in Brooklyn from 1865 to 1873.

Honoring his early work in preserving Yosemite Valley, the promontory Olmsted Point near Tenaya Lake in Yosemite National Park was named after him.

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.

Elm Park, purchased in 1854 and laid out by Frederick Law Olmsted, was not only the first public park in the city ( after the 8-acre ( 32, 000 m² ) City Common from 1669 ) but also one of the first public parks in the U. S. Both the City Common and Elm Park are listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

* John Olmsted ( 1938-2011 ), California naturalist, and co-creator of The Independence Trail State Park

After Olmsted's retirement and death, his sons John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., continued the work of their firm, doing business as the Olmsted Brothers.

It is also postulated to work for Hamito-Semitic ( Fleming 1973 ), Chinese ( Munro 1978 ) and Amerind ( Stark 1973 ; Baumhoff and Olmsted 1963 ).

William Bancroft, a successful Wilmington businessman, led the effort to establish open parkland in Wilmington and was heavily influenced by the work of Frederick Law Olmsted.

Their work led to the design initiatives of noted landscape architects Charles Eliot and Arthur Shurcliff, both of whom had apprenticed with Frederick Law Olmsted and Guy Lowell.

Vaux recruited Olmsted and formally presented their proposal in January, 1866 and it was accepted in May, with work commencing in June.

* the successor firm of Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, who completed some two dozen unfinished projects and then continued to produce work in the same style, and continued to employ his collaborators the Norcross Brothers for construction and engineering expertise, Frederick Law Olmsted for landscape architecture, and the English sculptor John Evans for stonecarving

Loudon established himself as a city planner, decades before Frederick Law Olmsted and others began to work.

This edition, in the preparation of which he was assisted by Benjamin Silliman, Denison Olmsted, and others, was issued in 1847, and the “ Universal ” edition of the same work appeared in 1856.

The Frederick Law Olmsted landscape architecture firm started work on designing the park in 1931 and it opened in 1950.

At the same time, the B & A hired landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to design the grounds of several stations and to work with the railroad to establish a landscape beautification program for other stations.

Halprin's work is marked by his attention to human scale, user experience, and the social impact of his designs, in the egalitarian tradition of Frederick Law Olmsted.

The Frederick Law Olmsted landscape architecture firm started work on designing the park in 1931 and it opened in 1950.