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Louisville is home to many spacious city parks, several designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, as well as forested areas, trails and other outdoor attractions; distinctive examples include: Beargrass Creek State Nature Preserve; Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest (Bullitt County)
The Jefferson Memorial Forest is the largest municipal urban forest in the United States.. The Frederick Law Olmsted Parks [1] (formerly called the Olmsted Park System) in Louisville was the last of five such systems designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. [2]
The landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, and later of his sons John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (known as the Olmsted Brothers), produced designs and plans for hundreds of parks, campuses and other projects throughout the United States and Canada. Together, these works totaled 355.
Frederick Law Olmsted: Massachusetts: 7.21 acres (0.0292 km 2) Frederick Law Olmsted was an influential landscape architect, responsible for such projects as Central Park in New York City and the Emerald Necklace around Boston. Olmsted moved to this site, called Fairsted, in 1883 and established the world's first full-scale professional office ...
The parkway system of Louisville, Kentucky, also known as the Olmsted Park System, was designed by the firm of preeminent 19th century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. The 26-mile (42 km) system was built from the early 1890s through the 1930s, and initially owned by a state-level parks commission, which passed control to the city of ...
Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy; Olmsted and Vaux in Buffalo, New York "Municipal Parks and City Planning: Frederick Law Olmsted's Buffalo Park and Parkway System" by Francis R. Kowsky, reprinted with permission from the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, March 1987. The Best Planned City, an online film about Frederick Law ...
Cherokee Park is a 409-acre (166 ha) municipal park located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States, and is part of the Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy.It was designed in 1891 by Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of landscape architecture along with 18 of Louisville's 123 parks.
Shawnee Park is a municipal park in Louisville, Kentucky.It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed 18 of the city's 123 public parks.Along with the rest of the city's Olmsted-designed park system, Shawnee Park was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.