Frederick Law Olmsted, most famous for designing New York's Central Park, also designed a system of parks for Louisville. Olmsted's Louisville parks were designed to incorporate the city's diverse ...

As Frederick Law Olmsted was designing what would become the Niagara Reservation, now Niagara Falls State Park, which came ...

MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- What do New York's Central Park, the U.S. Capitol Grounds, and three parks and a boulevard in Milwaukee have in common? They were all designed by the founder of American ...

Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of this story. Prospect Park was not even half completed when it opened to the public in 1867. It was a huge success, made even larger over the next six years, as work ...

Today, it represents one of the most desirable sections of Buffalo, as well as a model for city living–much of which comes from the fact that it is a city within a park (in this case, Frederick Law ...

One could say that after Olmsted and Vaux experimented in Central Park, they came to Brooklyn with a more perfect plan, and Prospect Park was born. I believe that, as do millions of others who have ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WKBW) — Buffalo’s parks have long been celebrated as works of art, thanks to the vision of Frederick Law Olmsted, America’s first landscape architect. Now, a new program is helping East ...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter One. Frederick Law Olmsted's Epiphany -- Chapter Two. Happily Associated Passages of Natural Scenery -- Chapter Three. Birthplace of American ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: Jason Newman is a Superintendent for the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site with two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2022 Forum. Most ...