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  2. Frederick Law Olmsted - Wikipedia

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    Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) ... Olmsted's tenure as Central Park commissioner was a long struggle to preserve that idea. [18]

  3. List of Olmsted works - Wikipedia

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    After the retirement of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr in 1895, the firm was managed by John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., as Olmsted and Olmsted, Olmsted Olmsted and Eliot, and Olmsted Brothers. Works from this period, which spanned from 1895 to 1950, are often misattributed to Frederick Sr. They include:

  4. Cadwalader Park - Wikipedia

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    Cadwalader Park is a city park located in Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States. The nearly 100 acres (0.40 km 2) green space is Trenton's oldest park. It is named for Thomas Cadwalader, who lived for a while near Trenton where he became the chief burgess in 1746. Trenton's "central park" was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.

  5. WALKS AND TALKS: Frederick Law Olmsted's birth to be remembered

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    Apr. 21—MANCHESTER — A stroll along Hartford Road in celebration of the 200th anniversary of Frederick Law Olmsted's birth will take place Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. Olmsted (1822-1903), who was ...

  6. The Ramble and Lake - Wikipedia

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    The Ramble and Lake are two geographic features of Central Park in Manhattan, New York City.Part of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux's 1857 Greensward Plan for Central Park, the features are located on the west side of the park between the 66th and 79th Street transverses.

  7. Calvert Vaux - Wikipedia

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    Calvert Vaux FAIA (/ v ɔː k s /; December 20, 1824 – November 19, 1895) was an English-American architect and landscape designer.He and his protégé Frederick Law Olmsted designed parks such as Central Park and Prospect Park in New York City and the Delaware Park–Front Park System in Buffalo, New York.

  8. Central Park - Wikipedia

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    Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City, and the first landscaped park in the United States.. It is the sixth-largest park in the city, containing 843 acres (341 ha), and the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated 42 million visitors annually as of 2016

  9. Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site - Wikipedia

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    Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) is recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the nation's foremost parkmaker of the 19th century. In 1883, Olmsted moved his home to suburban Boston and established "Fairsted" , the world's first full-scale professional office for the practice of landscape design.