Olmsted Brothers

Olmsted Brothers was an influential landscape architects in the United States , which in 1898 by the stepbrothers John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. founded. With the company they continued the work started by their father Frederick Law Olmsted .

history

The company was the successor organization to Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot , which was dissolved after the death of their partner Charles Eliot in 1897. Both brothers were among the founding members of the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and played an influential role in establishing the National Park Service . Prior to taking over the helm, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. worked as an assistant to his father, assisting him with the design of projects such as the Biltmore Estate and the World's Columbian Exposition before graduating from Harvard University .

In its prime in the early 1930s, the Olmsted Brothers employed nearly 60 people. Some of the most famous landscape architects who worked for the company included James Frederick Dawson and Percival Gallagher . Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. retired as the last remaining member of the Olmsted family in 1949. The company itself wasn't closed until 1980.

Office and Archives

Fairsted, the company's 100-year-old headquarters, is a Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site and is located on 7 acres on 99 Warren Street in Brookline . There excellent insights into the practical work on large-scale landscape developments and the necessary engineering services can be gained. There is also an archive in the building (only accessible after registration), where designs, plant lists and photos from hundreds of projects can be viewed.

Developed designs

The company worked on a large number of projects that received the public attention, most of which are very popular to this day. These include, in particular, parking systems, universities, exhibition areas, libraries, hospitals, residential areas and state capitols . The most famous orders included the road systems in the Great Smoky Mountains , Acadia National Park , Yosemite Valley and Piedmont Park , a residential area in Oak Bay , Canada , parking systems in cities such as Portland and Seattle, and the Northern State Hospital in Washington State .

The two brothers were also co-authors with Harland Bartholomew of the 1930 report for the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce entitled "Parks, Playgrounds, and Beaches for the Los Angeles Region," in which they safeguarded public leisure areas in the south California recommended.

Selected private and public projects

• Audubon Park , New Orleans , Louisiana
• Ashland Park , Lexington, Kentucky residential area
• The British Properties , Vancouver , Canada
• Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial in Cambridgeshire , England
• Caracas Country Club golf course
• Cleveland Metroparks , Ohio
• Elm Bank Horticulture Center , Wellesley, Massachusetts
• First Presbyterian Church of Far Rockaway , Queens
• Fort Tryon Park , New York City
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park , Philadelphia , Pennsylvania
• Fresh Pond , Cambridge, Massachusetts
• Grover Cleveland Park , Caldwell, New Jersey
• High Point Park, Montague, New Jersey
• Katonah Village Historic District , Katonah, New York
• Exterior of the Kentucky State Capitol , Frankfort, Kentucky
• Leimert Park , Los Angeles
• Metro Parks, Summit County, Ohio
• Manito Park and Botanical Gardens , Spokane (Washington)
• Marconi Plaza , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Marquette Park , Chicago , Illinois
• Oheka Castle , Cold Spring Hills, New York
• Pope Park , Hartford, Connecticut
• Rancho Los Alamitos , Long Beach (California)
• South Mountain Reservation , New Jersey
• Verona Park , Verona (New Jersey)
• Wade Park , Cleveland
• Washington State Capitol Campus , Olympia, Washington
• Watsessing Park , Bloomfield, New Jersey

Campus designs

• Bryn Mawr College , Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
• Chatham University , Pittsburgh , Pennsylvania
• Denison University , Granville, Ohio
• Harvard Business School , Allston (Boston)
• Haverford College , Haverford, Pennsylvania
• Huntingdon College , Montgomery, Alabama
• Indiana University , Bloomington (Indiana)
• Iowa State University , Ames (Iowa)
• Johns Hopkins University , Baltimore , Maryland
• Louisiana State University , Baton Rouge
• Middlesex School , Concord, Massachusetts
• Mount Holyoke College , South Hadley, Massachusetts
• Newton Country Day School , Newton, Massachusetts
• Oberlin College , Oberlin, Ohio
• Ohio State University , Columbus (Ohio)
• Oregon State University , Corvallis, Oregon
• Saint Joseph College , West Hartford, Connecticut
• Samford University , Homewood, Alabama
• University of Chicago , Chicago, Illinois
• University of Florida , Gainesville (Florida)
• University of Idaho , Moscow (Idaho)
• University of Montevallo , Montevallo, Alabama
• University of Notre Dame , Notre Dame (Indiana)
• University of Rhode Island , Kingston (Rhode Island)
• University of Washington , Seattle
• Vassar College , Poughkeepsie
• Western Michigan University Main Campus , Kalamazoo
• Williams College , Williamstown, Massachusetts

Individual evidence

1. ^ Percival Gallagher . The Cultural Landscape Foundation. Archived from the original on February 22, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 11, 2012. 
2. ^ Percival Gallagher . Smithsonian Institution Research Information System: Archives, Manuscripts and Photographs Catalog. Retrieved April 11, 2012.
3. ^ Valerie Easton: Masters for the Green . In: The Seattle Times , April 27, 2003. Retrieved April 11, 2012. 
4. ^ David B. Williams: The Olmsted Legacy - The Fabled Massachusetts Landscape Firm Got To Seattle Early, And That Has Made All The Difference. In: The Seattle Times . May 2, 1999, accessed May 18, 2012 . 
5. ^ Greg Hise, William Francis Deverell: Eden by design . the 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew plan for the Los Angeles region. University of California Press, Berkeley 2000, ISBN 0-520-22415-9 .
6. ↑ Simon Romero: A Venezuelan Oasis of Elitism Counts Its Days. In: New York Times . December 27, 2010, accessed May 18, 2012 . 
7. ^ Cheri Goldner: The History of Metro Parks. In: MetroParks. Retrieved May 18, 2012 . 
8. ^ Huntingdon History. (No longer available online.) In: Huntingdon College website. Archived from the original on May 1, 2012 ; accessed on May 18, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ^ The Old Crescent. Indiana Historic Landscapes Alliance, accessed May 18, 2012 . 
10. ^ History of LSU. (No longer available online.) In: Louisiana State University website. Archived from the original on March 10, 2009 ; accessed on May 18, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
11. ^ Geoffrey Blodgett: The Grand March of Oberlin campus plans. (No longer available online.) In: Observer. Oberlin College, May 11, 1995, archived from the original on November 16, 2010 ; accessed on May 18, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
12. ^ The Ohio State University . Campus Heritage Network. Archived from the original on July 30, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 12, 2012. 
13. ^ Report on Oregon Agricultural College (PDF; 2.6 MB) Oregon State University. October 1, 1909. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
14. ^ History of the University of Idaho . University of Idaho. Retrieved April 12, 2012.
15. ↑ About Montevallo: UM Quick Facts . University of Montevallo. Archived from the original on March 30, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved April 12, 2012. 
16. ↑ Original 1904 Planting Plan for the Western State Normal School . Western Michigan University. Retrieved April 12, 2012.

Web links

• Olmsted Associates records. In: Library of Congress . Retrieved May 18, 2012 . 
• Charles E. Beveridge: Olmsted — His Essential Theory. National Association for Olmsted Parks, accessed May 18, 2012 . 
• Olmsted Parks in Seattle at HistoryLink.org
• Online search for Olmsted Brothers projects
• Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
• National Association for Olmsted Parks