Directory of Olmsted, Frederick Law Resources

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The life and works of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903).

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• Grave of Frederick Law Olmstead

  http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=1582
  Photographs of the landscape architect and his grave in Old North Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut, from Find A Grave.

• Interview with Witold Rybczynski

  http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/interviews/ba990714.htm
  Article from Atlantic Unbound on the biography by Rybczynski of Frederick Law Olmsted - 'A Clearing in the Distance', which aims to tell the story of 19th-century America through landscape architecture.

• John Singer Sargent's Frederick Law Olmsted

  http://www.jssgallery.org/Paintings/Frederick_Law_Olmsted.htm
  Portrait by Sargent, biography, and list of projects from the John Singer Sargent Virtual Gallery by Natasha Wallace.

• Olmsted, Frederick Law (1822-1903): American Landscape Architect

  http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dav4is/people/OLMS123.htm
  Rod Davis provides a photograph and brief biography, with related web links, most with short descriptions.

• Scape Artist

  http://www.hartfordhistory.net/olmsted.html
  New York Times review of Witold Rybczynski's book on Frederick Law Olmsted, who co-designed New York City's Central Park and was among the first to call himself a landscape architect.

• Yosemite and the Mariposa Grove: A Preliminary Report

  http://yosemite.ca.us/history/olmsted/
  Written in 1865 by Frederick Law Olmsted when he served briefly as one of the first Commissioners appointed to manage the grant of the Yosemite Valley.

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