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The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted - The Early Boston Years, 1882-1890 (Hardcover, New)
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The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted - The Early Boston Years, 1882-1890 (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted
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Frederick Law Olmsted relocated from New York to the Boston area in
the early 1880s. With the help of his stepson and partner, John
Charles Olmsted, his professional office grew to become the first
of its kind: a modern landscape architecture practice with park,
subdivision, campus, residential, and other landscape design
projects throughout the country. During the period covered in this
volume, Olmsted and his partners, apprentices, and staff designed
the exceptional park system of Boston and Brookline-including the
Back Bay Fens, Franklin Park, and the Muddy River Improvement.
Olmsted also designed parks for New York City, Rochester, Buffalo,
and Detroit and created his most significant campus plans for
Stanford University and the Lawrenceville School. The grounds of
the U.S. Capitol were completed with the addition of the grand
marble terraces that he designed as the transition to his
surrounding landscape. Many of Olmsted's most important private
commissions belong to these years. He began his work at Biltmore,
the vast estate of George Washington Vanderbilt, and designed Rough
Point at Newport, Rhode Island, and several other estates for
members of the Vanderbilt family. Olmsted wrote more frequently on
the subject of landscape design during these years than in any
comparable period. He would never provide a definitive treatise or
textbook on landscape architecture, but the articles presented in
this volume contain some of his most mature and powerful statements
on the practice of landscape architecture.
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