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Architect’s name: In an article in the Oct. 4 Home section, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.’
Oct. 18, 2007
California
Historic L.A.: In an Oct. 4 article in the Home section about Los Angeles residences built from 1885 to 1935, the name of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. was incorrectly spelled as Olmstead.
Oct. 13, 2007
Frederick Law Olmsted, the great 19th-Century urban planner, understood the rejuvenating potential of city parks in the lives of ordinary Americans.
Oct. 9, 1992
Entertainment & Arts
Frederick Law Olmsted, one of the founders of American landscape architecture and the designer of New York’s Central Park, was honored Sunday with a 33-cent stamp from the U.S.
Sept. 13, 1999
World & Nation
Demonstrators opposed to construction of a parkway to the planned Jimmy Carter library in Atlanta put up tents at a small city park lying in the road’s path.
Feb. 7, 1985
EDEN BY DESIGN: The 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew Plan for the Los Angeles Region; By Greg Hise and William Deverell, University of California Press: 248 pp., $48; $17.95 paper
July 16, 2000
Books
OLMSTED’S AMERICA: An “Unpractical” Man and His Vision of Civilization by Lee Hall (Little, Brown: $40; 288 pp.)
June 25, 1995
In response to Daniel Nussbaum’s article “The L.A.
Feb. 28, 1999
A CLEARING IN THE DISTANCE; Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the Nineteenth Century By Witold Rybczynski; Scribner: 480 pp., $28 : VISIONS OF PARADISE; Glimpses of Our Landscape’s Legacy By John Warfield Simpson; University of California Press: 388 pp., $35 : THE KINGDOMS OF EDWARD HICKS By Carolyn J. Weekley, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Folk Art Center: 254 pp., $39.95
Aug. 15, 1999
For 100 years, the gardens of Biltmore Estate have grown as living testimony to the genius of one of America’s most visionary landscape architects.
Feb. 11, 1995