Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
American landscape architect
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. was an American landscape architect and city planner known for his wildlife conservation efforts. He had a lifetime commitment to national parks, and worked on projects in Acadia, the Everglades and Yosemite National Park. He gained national recognition by filling in for his father on the Park Improvement Commission for the District of Columbia beginning in 1901, and by contributing to the famous McMillan Commission Plan for redesigning Washington according to a revised version of the original L’Enfant plan. Olmsted Point in Yosemite and Olmsted Island at Great Falls of the Potomac River in Maryland are named after him.
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.'s Published Works
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- A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: With Remarks on their Economy (72)
- Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England (40)
- A journey in the back country (39)
- The Cotton Kingdom (31)
- The slave States (1959) (18)
- A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States in the Years 1853-1854. (1905) (15)
- What is "professional" practice in landscape architecture? (9)
- The Town-Planning Movement in America (1914) (9)
- A Journey Through Texas; Or, a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier. with a Statistical Appendix (7)
- Carrying out the city plan : practical application of American law in the execution of city plans (6)
- Report of state park survey of California (5)
- City Planning and Housing (1912) (3)
- The Slave States, Before the Civil War. (1959) (3)
- Portland : Report of the Park Board : Portland, Oregon (1903) (1903) (2)
- Back Bay Fens (2)
- Standardized plant names (1)
- Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect, 1822-1903, ed. by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and Theodora Kimball ... (1)
- Fundamental objections to the walsh bill (1921) (1)
- Preliminary Study for National Zoological Park (0)
- Central park : as a work of art and as a great municipal enterprise, 1853-1895 (0)
- Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn (0)
- Missouri Botanical Garden, 2345 Tower Grove Avenue, Saint Louis, Independent City, MO (1939) (0)
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.). Master plan: Basin, looking north (0)
- Discussion: City Planning and Housing by Frederick Law Olmsted (1912) (0)
- Discussion: Alleys by Mrs Albion Fellows Bacon (1912) (0)
- Pollak Prize Essays.@@@The Road to Plenty. (1928) (0)
- Public Open Spaces in American Towns and Cities (1906) (0)
- Letter: Frederick L. Olmsted to Ida M. Tarbell, May 11, 1927 (1927) (0)
- Architect's Report To the Board of Trustees of the College of Agriculture, and the Mechanic Arts, of the State of Maine (0)
- The World’s Columbian Exposition (1892) (0)
- Plan of Riverside Community (0)
- Fort Tryon Park (1936) (0)
- Museum of Fine Arts, BostonBack Bay Fens (0)
- Ames Gate Lodge (0)
- Capitol Hill Landscape (0)
- Early years and experiences : together with biographical notes (0)
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