Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect, 1822-1903

[RuthieG]

I was just reading an article on the BBC website about the quintessentially British park, and saw this:

Birkenhead Park was the UK's first publicly funded civic park in 1847. Three years later an American visitor was awestruck by what he saw.

"Five minutes of admiration, and a few more spent studying the manner in which art had been employed to obtain from nature so much beauty, and I was ready to admit that in democratic America there was nothing to be thought of as comparable with this People's Garden," landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted later recalled in a book.

He took his experience away with him and built Central Park. Arguably the world's most famous, enshrined in a thousand films, it has British park DNA.

This is the book mentioned in the article:

Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect, 1822-1903. Edited by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. (1870-1957) and Theodora Kimball Hubbard (1887-1935). Published 1922.
http://archive.org/details/fredericklawolms00olm

About 39,000 words.

Ruth

[alg1001]

This looks good! I can't solo it, but I will put it on my list to launch as a little group project, if no one else takes it up before then.

[christomc]

10 years on, and I'd like to take this on solo.....

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