List of Olmsted works

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The landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, and later of his sons John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (known as the Olmsted Brothers), produced designs and plans for hundreds of parks, campuses and other projects throughout the United States and Canada. Together, these works totaled 355.[citation needed] This is a non-exhaustive list of those projects.

Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.

Academic campuses

Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. designed numerous school and college campuses between 1857 and 1895. Some of the most famous done while he headed his firm are listed here. Projects continuing past Olmsted's retirement in 1895 were completed by his sons, the Olmsted Brothers.

Selected private and civic designs

By Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.:

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ProjectCityState or provinceDate
Arnold ArboretumBostonMassachusetts1877
Back Bay Fens, Arborway and RiverwayBostonMassachusetts1890s–1900
Bayard Cutting Arboretum State ParkGreat RiverNew York, on Long Island
Beardsley ParkBridgeportConnecticut1884
Belle Isle ParkDetroitMichiganmaster plan and landscape in the 1880s
Biltmore Estate groundsAshevilleNorth Carolina1890–1895
Brandywine ParkWilmingtonDelaware1886
Buffalo, New York parks systemBuffaloNew York
Butler HospitalProvidenceRhode Island
Buttonwood ParkButtonwood Park Historic District, New BedfordMassachusetts
Cadwalader ParkTrentonNew Jersey
Central ParkManhattanNew York1853 (opened in 1856)[3]
Cherokee ParkLouisvilleKentucky
Congress ParkSaratoga SpringsNew York
Cushing IslandPortlandMaine
D.W. Field ParkBrocktonMassachusetts
DilworthCharlotteNorth Carolina
Downing ParkNewburghNew York
Druid Hills Historic District and parks along Ponce de Leon Avenue (Springdale, Virgilee, Druid Hills, Brightwood, Shady Side, Olmsted Linear, Deepdene)Druid Hills (Atlanta)Georgia
Eastern ParkwayBrooklynNew York[3]
Edgewood ParkWestville, New HavenConnecticut
Elizabeth ParkHartford & West HartfordConnecticut
Elmwood CemeteryDetroitMichigan
Emerald NecklaceBostonMassachusetts
Filmore Farm Charles Henry JonesWestonMassachusettscirca 1880
Fine Arts GardenClevelandOhio[4]
Florham, former estate of Hamilton and Florence (Vanderbilt) Twombly. Now the campus of Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityFlorham ParkNew Jersey
Forest ParkQueensNew York[3]
Fort Greene ParkBrooklynNew York[3]
Franklin ParkBostonMassachusetts
Genesee Valley ParkRochesterNew York[5]
Glen Magna FarmsDanversMassachusetts
Grand Army PlazaBrooklynNew York[3]
Highland ParkRochesterNew York[5]
Hubbard ParkMeriden, ConnecticutConnecticut
The Institute of LivingHartfordConnecticut1860s
Jackson Park, originally South ParkChicagoIllinois
John T. Davis house (17 Westmoreland Place)[6]St. LouisMissouri1892
Lakehurst GardensRoches PointOntarioca. 1870[7]
Lake ParkMilwaukeeWisconsin[8]
Lynn WoodsLynnMassachusetts
Manchester Town CommonManchesterMassachusetts
Manor ParkLarchmontNew York
Masconomo ParkManchesterMassachusetts
Maplewood ParkRochesterNew York[5]
MIT Endicott HouseDedhamMassachusetts
Montebello ParkSt. CatharinesOntario[9]
Morningside ParkNew York CityNew York[3]
Mount Royal ParkMontrealQuebecinaugurated in 1876
Mountain View CemeteryOaklandCaliforniadedicated in 1865
National Zoological ParkWashingtonDistrict of Columbia
Nay Aug ParkScrantonPennsylvania
New York State Hospital for the InsaneBuffaloNew York
Niagara Reservation (now Niagara Falls State Park)Niagara FallsNew Yorkdedicated in 1885
Ocean ParkwayBrooklynNew York[3]
Olmsted Linear Park[10]AtlantaGeorgia
Oyster HarborsOstervilleMassachusetts
Piedmont AvenueBerkeleyCalifornia
Roads and green space in central village area of PinehurstPinehurstNorth Carolinaground broken in 1895
Point Chautauqua, a Baptist planned resort communityPoint ChautauquaNew York
Prospect ParkBrooklynNew Yorkfinished 1868[3]
Public Pleasure GroundsSan FranciscoCalifornia
River Park (now Riverside Park)MilwaukeeWisconsin[8]
Village of RiversideRiversideIllinois
Riverside DriveManhattanNew York[3]
Riverside ParkManhattanNew York[3]
The RockeryEastonMassachusetts
Ruggles ParkFall RiverMassachusetts
Seaside ParkBridgeportConnecticut1860s
Seneca ParkRochesterNew York[5]
Shelburne FarmsShelburneVermont
Skillman Epilepsy Hospital (subsequently North Princeton Developmental Center)MontgomeryNew Jersey
South Park (now Kennedy Park)Fall RiverMassachusetts1868
Sudbrook ParkBaltimoreMaryland1889
Olmsted Subdivision Historic DistrictSwampscottMassachusetts
United States Capitol groundsWashingtonDistrict of Columbia
Vanderbilt MausoleumStaten IslandNew York[3]
Walnut Hill ParkNew BritainConnecticut
Washington Park[11]ChicagoIllinoiscirca 1870 (blueprints were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871)
West Park Zoological Gardens (now Washington Park)MilwaukeeWisconsin[8]
Whitman Town ParkWhitmanMassachusettscirca 1875
Willow Brook CemeteryWestportConnecticutcirca 1881
Woodburn Circle, West Virginia UniversityMorgantownWest Virginia
Wood Island Park (taken by eminent domain in the 1960s to expand Logan International Airport)BostonMassachusetts
World's Columbian ExpositionChicagoIllinois1893[12]
World's End, formerly the John Brewer EstateHingham, MassachusettsMassachusetts1889
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Olmsted Brothers

After the retirement of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr in 1895, the firm was managed by John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., as Olmsted and Olmsted, Olmsted Olmsted and Eliot, and Olmsted Brothers. Works from this period, which spanned from 1895 to 1950, are often misattributed to Frederick Sr. They include:

Academic campuses

Selected private and civic designs

By Olmsted and Olmsted, Olmsted Olmsted and Eliot, and Olmsted Brothers:

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