Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
| Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
| National Historic Landmark | |||
| National Historic Site | |||
 The house in 2005 |
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| location | Brookline , Massachusetts , United States | ||
| Coordinates | 42 ° 19 '30 " N , 71 ° 7' 56" W | ||
| surface | 7 Acres (2.8 ha ) | ||
| Built | 1810 | ||
| Number of visitors | 9,473 (2015) | ||
| NRHP number | 66000780 | ||
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| The NRHP added | October 15, 1966 | ||
| Declared as an NHL | October 15, 1966 | ||
| Declared as NHS | October 12, 1979 | ||
When Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site is the former house of Frederick Law Olmsted , he Fairsted called and used at the same time for his company headquarters, in the National Register of Historic Places entered. It is located in Brookline in the state of Massachusetts of the United States , and since 12 October 1979 has the status of a National Historic Site . Olmsted is considered to be the founder of American landscape architecture and is therefore of great importance for the horticultural and landscape development history of the United States.
Historical meaning
In 1883, Olmsted acquired the Federal Style building, previously known as Joshua Clark House, in 1810, in order to be able to live and work in the vicinity of his cooperation partner Henry Hobson Richardson . As his company grew, the house was significantly rebuilt and expanded to make room for archives and new office space. At times, drawings that were not currently needed had to be moved to another location around 1 km away. The last expansion measure was completed in 1911.
The house was owned by the family until 1936 when Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. moved to Elkton , Maryland and rented it to Fairsted; The Olmsted Brothers still had their offices there. In 1979 the National Park Service acquired the building and land and restored both to their 1930s appearance. The house is now a museum open to the public and contains an estimated 1 million original drawings to the work of the company, which include the land of the Washington Capitol and the White House and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park , the Acadia National Park , the New York's Central Park and the parks of entire cities like Boston and Montreal count.
See also
literature
- George F. Chadwick: The park and the town - public landscape in the 19th and 20th centuries . FA Praeger, New York 1966, OCLC 424754 .
- Albert Fein: Frederick Law Olmsted and the American environmental tradition . George Braziller, New York 1972, ISBN 978-0-8076-0650-6 .
- Patricia Heintzelman: National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form. (PDF) United States Department of the Interior , National Park Service , October 10, 1975, accessed January 29, 2017 .
- Frederick Law Olmsted, Albert Fein: Landscape into cityscape - Frederick Law Olmsted's plans for a greater New York City . Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., New York 1981, ISBN 978-0-442-22539-1 .
- Laura Wood Roper: A biography of Frederick Law Olmsted . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1973, ISBN 978-0-8018-1508-9 .
Web links
- Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site on the United States Geological Survey's Geographic Names Information System
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ^ Stats Report Viewer. National Park Service , accessed on January 29, 2017 (select the appropriate entry under “Park”).
- ↑ Listing of National Historic Landmarks by State: Massachusetts. National Park Service , accessed August 10, 2019.
- ↑ cf. Heintzelman, p. 2.