Frederick Law Olmsted
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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.
All labels observed (6)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Frederick Law Olmsted canonical | 138 |
| Frederick Law Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace design | 2 |
| Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. | 1 |
| Frederick Law Olmsted works | 1 |
| Olmsted | 1 |
| landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted | 1 |
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
landscape architect
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person ⓘ social reformer ⓘ writer ⓘ |
| birthDate | 1822-04-26 ⓘ |
| birthPlace | Hartford, Connecticut, United States ⓘ |
| child |
Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
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John Charles Olmsted ⓘ |
| coDesignerWith |
Calvert Vaux
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Henry Hobson Richardson ⓘ John Charles Olmsted ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| deathDate | 1903-08-28 ⓘ |
| deathPlace | Belmont, Massachusetts, United States ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Yale University
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Yale College (informal studies)
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| employer | U.S. Sanitary Commission ⓘ |
| familyName |
Frederick Law Olmsted
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Olmsted
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| fieldOfWork |
landscape architecture
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park design ⓘ urban planning ⓘ |
| founded |
Olmsted, Vaux & Co.
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Olmsted, Olmsted & Eliot
Olmsted, Vaux & Co. ⓘ |
| fullName |
Frederick Law Olmsted
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Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.
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| givenName | Frederick ⓘ |
| influenced |
American landscape architecture
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Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. ⓘ John Charles Olmsted ⓘ urban park movement in the United States ⓘ |
| knownFor |
co-design of Belle Isle Park in Detroit
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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
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parks as democratic spaces for all social classes ⓘ parkways and greenways connecting urban parks ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Biltmore Estate
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surface form:
Biltmore Estate landscape, Asheville
Buffalo park and parkway system ⓘ
surface form:
Buffalo Park and Parkway System
Central Park ⓘ
surface form:
Central Park, New York City
Emerald Necklace ⓘ
surface form:
Emerald Necklace, Boston
Mount Royal Park, Montreal ⓘ Niagara Falls State Park ⓘ
surface form:
Niagara Reservation, Niagara Falls
Prospect Park ⓘ
surface form:
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Riverside, Illinois town plan ⓘ United States Capitol grounds ⓘ
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U.S. Capitol grounds, Washington, D.C.
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| occupation |
author
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journalist ⓘ landscape architect ⓘ |
| participatedIn |
American Civil War
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surface form:
American Civil War (as administrator, not soldier)
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| positionHeld | General Secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commission ⓘ |
| residence |
Brookline
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surface form:
Brookline, Massachusetts
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| spouse | Mary Cleveland Perkins Olmsted ⓘ |
| wrote |
A Journey Through Texas
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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 (144)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.
this entity surface form:
Olmsted
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Mount Royal Park
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The Lake (Central Park)
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Frederick Law Olmsted works
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Fort Greene Park
this entity surface form:
landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted