Frederick Law Olmsted

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landscape architect person social reformer writer

Frederick Law Olmsted was a pioneering 19th-century American landscape architect best known for designing major urban parks such as New York City's Central Park and Boston's Emerald Necklace.

Aliases (4)

Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. ×1
Frederick Law Olmsted works ×1
Olmsted ×1
landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted ×1

Statements (63)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	landscape architect → person → social reformer → writer →
birthDate	1822-04-26 →
birthPlace	Hartford, Connecticut, United States →
child	Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. → John Charles Olmsted →
coDesignerWith	Calvert Vaux → Henry Hobson Richardson → John Charles Olmsted →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
deathDate	1903-08-28 →
deathPlace	Belmont, Massachusetts, United States →
educatedAt	Yale College (informal studies) →
employer	U.S. Sanitary Commission →
familyName	Olmsted →
fieldOfWork	landscape architecture → park design → urban planning →
founded	Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot → Olmsted, Vaux & Co. →
fullName	Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. →
givenName	Frederick →
influenced	American landscape architecture → Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. → John Charles Olmsted → urban park movement in the United States →
knownFor	co-design of Belle Isle Park in Detroit → co-design of Mount Royal Park in Montreal → co-design of the Niagara Reservation at Niagara Falls → co-design of the park system in Buffalo, New York → design of Central Park in New York City → design of Prospect Park in Brooklyn → design of Riverside, Illinois, one of the first planned suburbs → design of the Biltmore Estate landscape in Asheville, North Carolina → design of the Emerald Necklace park system in Boston → design of the U.S. Capitol grounds in Washington, D.C. → pioneering the profession of landscape architecture in the United States →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
notableIdea	integration of large urban parks into city planning → parks as democratic spaces for all social classes → parkways and greenways connecting urban parks →
notableWork	Biltmore Estate landscape, Asheville → Buffalo Park and Parkway System → Central Park, New York City → Emerald Necklace, Boston → Mount Royal Park, Montreal → Niagara Reservation, Niagara Falls → Prospect Park, Brooklyn → Riverside, Illinois town plan → U.S. Capitol grounds, Washington, D.C. →
occupation	author → journalist → landscape architect →
participatedIn	American Civil War (as administrator, not soldier) →
positionHeld	General Secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commission →
residence	Brookline, Massachusetts →
spouse	Mary Cleveland Perkins Olmsted →
wrote	A Journey Through Texas → A Journey in the Back Country in the Winter of 1853–4 → A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States → Walks and Talks of an American Farmer in England →

Referenced by (62)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Central Park → Delaware Park → Delaware Park–Front Park System → Downing Park → Emerald Necklace → Emerald Necklace park system → Fort Greene Park → Front Park → Gala Water (lake in Delaware Park) → Humboldt Parkway → Lake at Front Park → Mount Royal Park → Olmsted Park → Prospect Park → The Parkside neighborhood parkways → The Pond (Central Park) → The Ramble (Central Park) →	designer
Arnold Arboretum → Back Bay Fens → Buffalo park and parkway system → Franklin Park → Harlem Meer → Jackson Park → Morningside Park → Porter Avenue → Riverside Park (Manhattan) → The Fens → The Lake (Central Park) → The Mall and Literary Walk → The Parade →	designedBy
Back Bay Fens → Franklin Park → The Parade →	creator
Emerald Necklace park system → Jamaica Way → The Fens →	hasDesigner
Delaware Park → The Ramble (Central Park) →	architect
World’s Columbian Exposition → World’s Columbian Exposition design team →	chiefLandscapeArchitect
Calvert Vaux → Jacob Wrey Mould →	collaboratedWith
Biltmore Estate → Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane →	landscapeArchitect
Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy → Olmsted Park →	namedAfter
Charles Eliot → George Washington Vanderbilt II →	workedWith
Bethesda Terrace →	associatedWith
Delaware Park ("Frederick Law Olmsted works") →	category
Calvert Vaux →	coDesignerWith
Stony Brook →	designedIntoLandscapeBy
Muddy River →	designerOfLandscapeContext
Frederick Law Olmsted ("Olmsted") →	familyName
Frederick Law Olmsted ("Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.") →	fullName
Olmsted Park →	hasArchitect
The Parade ("landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted") →	hasDesignerRole
Buffalo →	hasParkSystemDesignedBy
Andrew Jackson Downing →	influenced
Charles Eliot →	influencedBy
World’s Columbian Exposition design team →	member
Greater Boston parkway system →	partlyDesignedBy