Comments on: Frederick Law Olmsted & His Beautiful Parks

By: Rob DeRocker

Rob DeRocker — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:31:50 +0000

My favorite and supposedly his — Prospect Park in Brooklyn! Thanks for this, Casey!

By: Shasta

Shasta — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:48:36 +0000

He designed the lovely parks along Ponce de Leon in Atlanta.

By: RiversideKid

RiversideKid — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 15:35:20 +0000

Olmstead (with the help of Calvert Vaux, his partner in the design of NYC’s Central Park) was also responsible for the design of the nation’s first planned residential suburb, Riverside, IL, less than 10 miles west/southwest of downtown Chicago–3 miles south of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Oak Park and also home to a handful of FLW’s designed homes. Like Olmstead’s parks, FLW incorporated existing surrounding nature into all of his designs–to incorporate and have his designs complemented by what was already there (ex. building around a tree rather than remove it).

By: Brigid

Brigid — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:24:48 +0000

He also did the landscape design at Florham, Hamilton Twombly and Florence Vanderbilt Twombly’s estate, which is now Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, NJ.

By: Case

Case — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 22:14:32 +0000

I just went to the Biltmore House today, and like Bill said above, he did that, and the grounds are gorgeous. The painting of him shown is in the House, too.

By: NT4thBook

NT4thBook — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:24:48 +0000

So revered was Olmstead’s design at Cherokee Park in Louisville, that when I-64 was built through the city, they dug a tunnel under it, so not to disrupt the tranquility of the park!

By: Monica

Monica — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:38:57 +0000

The Olmstead brothers worked on parts of the University of Montevallo, which I where I attend college.

By: Liz

Liz — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:44:54 +0000

He also did Belle Isle in Detroit — one of the most beautiful areas of the city.

By: Thom

Thom — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:38:43 +0000

There’s a famous story in my local area that Olmsted was deeply influenced by birkenhead park, the first public park in britain, when he was designing central park.

Great Article!

By: Bill

Bill — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:26:29 +0000

He also designed the grounds at Biltmore Estate.