The landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, and later of his sons John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (known as the Olmsted Brothers), produced designs and plans for hundreds of parks, campuses and other projects throughout the United States and Canada. Together, these works totaled 355. This is a non-exhaustive list of those projects.
Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.
Academic campuses
Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. designed numerous school and college campuses between 1857 and 1895. Some of the most famous done while he headed his firm are listed here. Projects continuing past Olmsted's retirement in 1895 were completed by his sons, the Olmsted Brothers.
- American University Main Campus, Washington, D.C.
- Berwick Academy, South Berwick, Maine (1894)
- Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (1885)
- Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (1867âÂÂ1873)
- Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey
- Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. (1866)
- Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts (1884âÂÂ1904)
- Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey (1883âÂÂ1901)
- Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York
- Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
- Noble and Greenough School, Dedham, Massachusetts
- Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (1891âÂÂ1965)
- Pomfret School, Pomfret, Connecticut
- St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.)
- Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts (1891âÂÂ1909)
- The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY
- Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, Main Quad (1887âÂÂ1906) and campus master plan (1886âÂÂ1914)
- Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut (1872âÂÂ1894)
- University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, master plan (1865)
- University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
- University of Maine, Orono, Maine
- University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
- Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (1865âÂÂ1899)
- Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
- Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (1874âÂÂ1881)
Selected private and civic designs
By Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.:
Olmsted Brothers
After the retirement of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr in 1895, the firm was managed by John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., as Olmsted and Olmsted, Olmsted Olmsted and Eliot, and Olmsted Brothers. Works from this period, which spanned from 1895 to 1950, are often misattributed to Frederick Sr. They include:
Academic campuses
- Alabama A&M University, Normal, Alabama
- Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (1895âÂÂ1927)
- Chatham University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Denison University, Granville, Ohio (1916)
- Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky
- Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee (1929-1933)
- Florence State Teachers College, Florence, Alabama (University of North Alabama)
- Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania (1929)
- Harvard Business School, Allston, Massachusetts (1925âÂÂ1931)
- Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania (1925âÂÂ1932)*
- Huntingdon College campus, Montgomery, Alabama
- Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (1929âÂÂ1936)
- Iowa State University Ames, Iowa (1906)
- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (1903âÂÂ1919)
- Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania (1909)
- Lincoln Institute, Lincoln Ridge, Kentucky (1911)
- Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky (1923)
- Middlesex School, Concord, Massachusetts (1901)
- Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts (1896âÂÂ1922)
- Newton Country Day School, Newton, Massachusetts (1927)
- Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio (1903)
- Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (1909)
- Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon (1909)
- Roslyn High School, Roslyn, New York (1920s)
- Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut
- Samford University, Homewood, Alabama
- Stanford University, Stanford, California (1886âÂÂ1914)
- Troy University, Troy, Alabama
- Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts (1920)
- University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1901âÂÂ1910)
- University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (1925)
- University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho (1908)
- University of Montevallo, Montevallo, Alabama
- University of Maine, Orono, Maine (1932)
- University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (1929âÂÂ1932)
- University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island (1894âÂÂ1903)
- University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (1902âÂÂ1920)
- Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (1896âÂÂ1932)
- Western Michigan University Main Campus, Kalamazoo, Michigan (1904)
- Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts (1902âÂÂ1912)
Selected private and civic designs
By Olmsted and Olmsted, Olmsted Olmsted and Eliot, and Olmsted Brothers:
- Adair Country Inn gardens, Bethlehem, New Hampshire
- Audubon Park, New Orleans, Louisiana
- Ashland Park, residential neighborhood built around Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate in Lexington, Kentucky
- Bloomfield, Villanova, PA. Private house of George McFadden.
- Branch Brook Park, Newark, New Jersey
- The British Properties, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Brookdale Park, Bloomfield & Montclair, New Jersey
- Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial a memorial for American World War II servicemen in Cambridgeshire, near Cambridge, England
- Caracas Country Club (1928), Alta Florida, Capital District, Caracas, Venezuela
- Carroll Park, Baltimore, Maryland
- Cedar Brook Park, Shakespeare Garden, Plainfield, New Jersey
- Cleveland Metroparks System, in the Greater Cleveland area, Ohio
- Craig Colony for Epileptics, Sonyea, New York
- Crocker Field, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
- Deering Oaks, Portland, Maine
- The Gardens at Dey Mansion Washington's Headquarters, Wayne, New Jersey
- Druid Hills, Atlanta, Georgia
- Dunn Gardens, Seattle, Washington
- Eastern Promenade, Portland, Maine
- Elm Bank Horticulture Center, Wellesley, Massachusetts
- Fairmont Park, Riverside, California
- First Presbyterian Church of Far Rockaway, Queens, New York
- Fort Tryon Park, New York City
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (originally League Island Park)
- Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Garret Mountain Reservation, Woodland Park, New Jersey
- Goffle Brook Park, Hawthorne, New Jersey
- Grover Cleveland Park, Caldwell, New Jersey
- Hermann Dudley Murphy House, Lexington, Massachusetts
- High Point Park, Montague, New Jersey
- High Rock Reservation, a park in Lynn, Massachusetts
- Homelands Neighborhood, Springfield, Massachusetts
- "New" Katonah, Katonah, New York
- Kentucky State Capitol Grounds, Frankfort, Kentucky
- Kohler (Village of), Wisconsin
- Kykuit gardens, Rockefeller family estate, Mount Pleasant (from 1897 but largely revised by later architects)
- Leimert Park Neighborhood, Los Angeles
- Locust Valley Cemetery, Locust Valley, New York
- Metro Parks, Summit County, Ohio
- Manito Park and Botanical Gardens, Spokane, Washington
- Marconi Plaza (originally Oregon Plaza)
- Marquette Park, Chicago, Illinois
- Memorial Park (Jacksonville), Florida
- Memorial Park, Maplewood, New Jersey
- Mill Creek Park, Youngstown, Ohio
- Munsey Park, New York
- North Park, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1901
- Otto Kahn Estate, Cold Spring Hills, New York
- Oldfields-Lilly House and Gardens, a National Historic Landmark, originally Hugh Landon estate (Olmsted job # 6883 http://www.rediscov.com/olmsted/default.asp?include=master.htm 1920âÂÂ1927) http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oldfields_Border_plantings,_Olmsted_job-6883,_sheet_88,_scanned_11_2007_orig_sz_29x24inch.jpg, Indianapolis, Indiana
- Passaic County Parks System
- Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Georgia
- Pittsburgh downtown ("industrial district") and thoroughfares , 1909
- Planting Fields, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York
- Pope Park (Hartford, Connecticut)
- The Portland park plan, Portland, Oregon
- Plan for Los Angeles Region, with Harland Bartholomew & Associates (1930)
- Preakness Valley Park, Wayne, New Jersey
- Prouty Garden, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston This garden is at risk of being destroyed for redevelopment purposes.
- Pulaski Park, Holyoke, Massachusetts
- Rahway River Parkway Union County, New Jersey
- Riverside Park, Hartford, Connecticut
- Rancho Los Alamitos Gardens, Long Beach, California
- Riverbend, Walter J. Kohler Sr. estate grounds, Kohler, Wisconsin
- Seattle Park System
- Southern Boulevard Parkway (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
- South Mountain Reservation, Maplewood, Millburn, South Orange, West Orange, New Jersey
- South Park (now Kennedy Park), Fall River, Massachusetts, 1904
- Spokane, Washington city parks
- Springdale Park, Holyoke, Massachusetts
- Thompson Park and roadways, Watertown, New York
- Union County, New Jersey park system
- Uplands, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Utica, New York Parks and Parkway System (1908âÂÂ1914)
- Landscape of the Town of Vandergrift, Pennsylvania (1895)
- Verona Park, Verona, New Jersey
- Wade Lagoon, on University Circle, Cleveland
- The garden at Welwyn Preserve, Long Island, New York
- Warinanco Park, Roselle, New Jersey
- Washington State Capitol campus, Olympia, Washington
- Watsessing Park, Bloomfield, New Jersey
- Weasel Brook Park, Clifton, New Jersey
- Weequahic Park, Weequahic section of Newark, New Jersey
- The Highlands Neighborhood, Seattle
- Barberrys, Nelson Doubleday house, Mill Neck, New York (1919âÂÂ1924)
- "Allgates," Horatio Gates Lloyd house, Coopertown Road, Haverford, Pennsylvania (1911âÂÂ1915)
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