In the summer of 1886, when the campus was first being planned, Stanford brought the president of Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ), Francis Amasa Walker, and prominent Boston landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted westward for consultations.

Its main designer was Frederick Todd, a protégé of the junior Olmsted and Canada's most prominent landscape architect of the early 20th century.

His design was influenced by the City Beautiful ideals of Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., and the garden city movement principles of Henry Vivian.

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.

Named after the nearby city of Winona, Winona Laura Horowitz was born in Olmsted County, Minnesota.

The Chicago Columbian Exposition was, in large part, designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick Law Olmsted.

The layout of the fairgrounds was created by Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Beaux-Arts architecture of the buildings was under the direction of Daniel Burnham, Director of Works for the fair.

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

Frederick Law Olmsted ( April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903 ) was an American journalist, social critic, public administrator, and landscape designer.

Olmsted was born in Hartford, Connecticut, on April 26, 1822.

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.

His mother, Charlotte Law ( Hull ) Olmsted, died when he was scarcely four years old.

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.

This farm, originally named the Akerly Homestead, was renamed Tosomock Farm by Olmsted.

Frederick and Mary had two children together who survived infancy: a daughter, Marion ( born October 28, 1861 ) and a son Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. Their first child, John Theodore Olmsted, was born on June 13, 1860 and died in infancy.

In 1862 during Union General George B. McClellan's Peninsula Campaign, Olmsted headed the medical effort for the sick and wounded at White House in New Kent County, where there was a ship landing on the Pamunkey River.

On the home front, Olmsted was one of the six founding members of the Union League Club of New York.

In recognition of the above, Olmsted was elected a Third Class member of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States ( MOLLUS ) on May 2, 1888.

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

Olmsted was a frequent collaborator with architect Henry Hobson Richardson, for whom he devised the landscaping schemes for half a dozen projects, including Richardson's commission for the Buffalo State Asylum.

The term " landscape architecture " was invented by Gilbert Laing Meason in 1828 and was first used as a professional title by Frederick Law Olmsted in 1863.

Some of the most famous of Frederick Law Olmsted are listed here.

Alvah Crocker hired the famous Olmsted Brothers Landscaping and Design Firm of Brookline, MA to design his " field of dreams ".

In 1895, company's president, George Gibson McMurtry, hired famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted to design a town for Apollo Iron & Steel's workers.

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.

By an arrangement with the city of Boston, the Arnold Arboretum became part of the famous " Emerald Necklace ", the long network of parks and parkways that Frederick Law Olmsted laid out for the Boston Parks Department between 1878 and 1892.

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.

In 1878, James W. Beardsley, a wealthy farmer, donated over of hilly, rural land bordering on the Pequonnock River with a distant view of Long Island Sound to the city of Bridgeport on condition that " the city shall accept and keep the same forever as a public park ...." In 1881, the city contracted Frederick Law Olmsted, famous for creating New York City's Central Park, to create a design for Beardsley Park.

Watsessing Park was designed in 1899 by the famous Olmsted Brothers of Brookline, Massachusetts ( sons of Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of Manhattan's Central Park ).

After Eliot's death, Olmsted's son and stepson reconstituted their partnership as the Olmsted Brothers, which continued for another 50 years as one of the most famous landscape design firms in the United States, and went on to design thousands of parks, gardens, and landscapes in the 20th century.

A famous community served was Riverside, Illinois, arguably one of the first planned communities in the United States, designed in 1869 by Frederick Law Olmsted.

Chestnut Hill is perhaps best known as the home of Boston College, part of the Boston Marathon route, as well as the Collegiate Gothic canvas of the world famous landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted.

Laid out with long vistas and avenues of trees at the turn of the 19th to 20th century, the Midway in part followed the vision of Frederick Law Olmsted, one of the creators of New York City's famous Central Park, but without his impracticable dream of creating a Venetian canal linking the lagoon systems of Jackson and Washington parks.

The firm of Olmsted, Vaux, and Co., famous for creating New York City's Central Park, was hired to design the urban oasis.

Prospect was to be included in the city's ambitious new Prospect Park, to be designed by Calvert Vaux and Frederick Law Olmsted, who were in the process of designing the more famous Central Park for New York City.

The following year, famous landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted was commissioned to design Louisville's system of parks ( most notably, Cherokee, Iroquois and Shawnee Parks ) connected by tree-lined parkways.

Olmsted designed famous neighbourhoods and parks in North America.

Near Asheville, he built his famous Biltmore House, the grounds of which Frederick Law Olmsted landscaped.

Olmsted worked out the general concept for the campus and its buildings, rejecting a hillside site in favor of the more practical flatlands.

Burnham emphasized architecture and sculpture as central to the fair and assembled the period's top talent to design the buildings and grounds including Frederick Law Olmsted for the grounds.

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

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.

In addition to the above Olmsted helped to raise three colored ( African American ) regiments in New York City and organized a fair which raised one million dollars for the United States Sanitary Commission.

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.

For instance, the Olmsted Brothers firm did a park plan for Portland, Maine, in 1905, creating a series of connecting parkways between existing parks and suggesting improvements to those parks.

* The National Association for Olmsted Parks

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

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.

In 1914, Bernheim commissioned the firm of Frederick Law Olmsted to design a plan for Anchorage, which would incorporate stone bridges and triangle intersections, similar to Olmsted's plans for Louisville's park system.

The City Council of Olmsted Falls consists of seven members elected to two year terms ; Council President, Council President Pro-Tempore, Council-At-Large, Clerk of Council, representative for Ward 1, representative for Ward 2, representative for Ward 3, and representative for Ward 4.