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Frederick Law Olmsted: Projects by Location

This guide offers a variety of digital and print resources on the work of landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted.

California

Building San Francisco's Parks, 1850-1930 by Terence Young
Call Number: SB482.C22 S268 2004
Publication Date: 2004
Eden by Design : the 1930 Olmsted-Bartholomew plan for the Los Angeles region by William F. Deverell; Greg Hise
Call Number: HT394.L67 E34 2000
Publication Date: 2000

Ecological Planning in 1920s California: The Olmsted Brothers Design of Palos Verdes Estates
O'Hara, Christine Edstrom. Landscape Journal, 2016 Jan 01. 35(2), 219-235.
The Panama-California Exposition, San Diego, 1915: The Olmsted Brothers' Ecological Park Typology
O'Hara, Christine Edstrom. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 2011 Mar . 70(1), 64-81.

Illinois

Frederick Law Olmsted's first and last suburbs : Riverside and Druid Hills by Darlene A. Roth
Call Number: SB470.O5 N36 1991 v. 4
Publication Date: 1991
Part of National Association for Olmsted Parks Workbook Series.

Rethinking Riverside: can change be good for Olmsted's model suburb?
Martin, Frank Edgerton. Landscape architecture. 2005 Oct., v.95, n.10, p.44,46,48,50-55. photos, drawings
Protecting a prototype: guidelines for Riverside, Illinois
Cairns, Malcolm & Kesler, Gary. Landscape architecture. 1987 July-Aug., v.77, no.4, p.62-65,100. photos, site plans, maps
Riverside: roots in France
Turak, Theodore. Inland architect. 1981 Nov.-Dec., v.25, no.9, p.12-[19].. engrs, maps, photos

Massachusetts

The Arnold Arboretum: the First Century by Silvia Barry Sutton
Call Number: QK490.M37 S93 1971
Publication Date: 1971
Community by Design : the Olmsted Firm and the Development of Brookline, Massachusetts by Keith N Morgan; Elizabeth Hope Cushing; Roger G Reed
Call Number: SB470.O5 M67 2013
Franklin Park by Julie Arrison
Call Number: F73.65.F83 A77 2009
Franklin Park action plan by Boston Parks and Recreation
Call Number: Available as eBooks. Click to view.
Publication Date: 2020
Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System by Cynthia Zaitzevsky
Call Number: SB 483 .B73 Z34 1982
Publication Date: 1982
Mass. - Boston - Parks (Vertical File)
Call Number: Mass. - Boston - Parks (Vertical File)
Olmsted's Emerald Necklace : art of the urban landscape by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Call Number: SB 470.O5 O56 2005
Publication Date: 2001
The Olmsted National Historic Site and the Growth of Historic Landscape Preservation by David Grayson Allen
Call Number: F74.B9 A45 2007
Science in the Pleasure Ground : a history of the Arnold Arboretum by Ida Hay
Call Number: QK 480 .U52 A765 1995
Publication Date: 1995

"Of Greater Lasting Consequence": Frederick Law Olmsted and the Fate of Franklin Park, Boston
Alexander von Hoffman. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Dec., 1988), pp. 339-350 (12 pages)

Montreal

Mount Royal in the works of Frederick Law Olmsted by Charles E. Beveridge
Call Number: E-book
Publication Date: 2009

New Jersey

Olmsted Parks in New Jersey by Jeanne Kolva
Call Number: SB470.O5 K65 2011
Publication Date: 2011

New York

Art of the Olmstead Landscape: His Works in New York City by Mary E. Hern and others
Call Number: SB 470 .O5 S55 1981
Publication Date: 1981
The Best Planned City in the World: Olmsted, Vaux, and the Buffalo Park System by Francis R. Kowsky; Andy Olenick
Call Number: SB470.O5 K69 2013
Publication Date: 2013
Central Park, 1857-1995 : the birth, decline & renewal of a national treasure by Eugene Kinkead
Call Number: F 128.65 .C3 K56 1990
Publication Date: 1990
Central Park, an American Masterpiece by Sara Cedar Miller; Central Park Conservancy Staff
Call Number: F128.65.C3 M55 2003
Publication Date: 2003
Forty Years of Landscape Architecture: Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. by Frederick L. Olmsted (Editor); Theodora Kimball (Editor)
Call Number: SB 470.O5 O52 1973
Publication Date: 1923, 1973
Frederick Law Olmsted's New York by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Call Number: SB 470.O5 R64 1972
Publication Date: 1972
The Park and the People: a History of Central Park by Roy Rosenzweig; Elizabeth Blackmar
Call Number: F128.65.C3 R67 1992
Pleasure Drives and Promenades: the History of Frederick Law Olmsted's Brooklyn Parkways by Elizabeth MacDonald
Call Number: SB470.O5 M32 2012
Prospect Park Handbook by Clay Lancaster
Call Number: SB483.B7 L3 1967

Journal Articles

North Carolina

The Biltmore nursery : a botanical legacy by Bill Alexander
Call Number: Borrow via Internet Archive
Publication Date: 2007
Biltmore Estate : the most distinguished private place by Bryan, John Morrill
Call Number: Borrow via Internet Archive
Publication Date: 1994

Journal Articles

"The Most Critical & the Most Difficult" Project: Frederick Law Olmsted's Biltmore
Schuyler, David. The North Carolina Historical Review, 2015 Oct 01. 92(4), 361-386.

Pacific Northwest

Greenscapes : Olmsted's Pacific Northwest by Joan Hockaday
Call Number: SB470.O53 H634 2009
Publication Date: 2009