List of Olmsted works

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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.{{citation needed|date=September 2019}} 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.

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=Selected private and civic designs=

By Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.:

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! Project !! City !! State or province !! Date

Arnold ArboretumBostonMassachusetts1877
Back Bay Fens, Arborway and RiverwayBostonMassachusetts1890s–1900
Bayard Cutting Arboretum State ParkGreat RiverNew York, on Long Island
Beardsley ParkBridgeportConnecticut1884
Belle Isle ParkDetroitMichiganmaster plan and landscape in the 1880s
Biltmore Estate groundsAshevilleNorth Carolina1890–1895
Brandywine ParkWilmingtonDelaware1886
Buffalo, New York parks systemBuffaloNew York
Butler HospitalProvidenceRhode Island
Buttonwood ParkButtonwood Park Historic District, New BedfordMassachusetts
Cadwalader ParkTrentonNew Jersey
Central ParkManhattanNew York1853 (opened in 1856){{cite book|last1=White|first1=Norval|last2=Willensky|first2=Elliot|last3=Chapter|first3=American Institute of Architects. New York|title=AIA guide to New York City|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e9dUAAAAMAAJ|year=2000|publisher=Crown Publ.|isbn=9780812931068|access-date=2018-01-24|archive-date=2017-02-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224194427/https://books.google.com/books?id=e9dUAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}
Cherokee ParkLouisvilleKentucky
Congress ParkSaratoga SpringsNew York
Cushing IslandPortlandMaine
D.W. Field ParkBrocktonMassachusetts
DilworthCharlotteNorth Carolina
Downing ParkNewburghNew York
Druid Hills Historic District and parks along Ponce de Leon Avenue (Springdale, Virgilee, Druid Hills, Brightwood, Shady Side, Olmsted Linear, Deepdene)Druid Hills (Atlanta)Georgia
Eastern ParkwayBrooklynNew York
Edgewood ParkWestville, New HavenConnecticut
Elizabeth ParkHartford & West HartfordConnecticut
Elmwood CemeteryDetroitMichigan
Emerald NecklaceBostonMassachusetts
Filmore Farm Charles Henry JonesWestonMassachusettscirca 1880
Fine Arts GardenClevelandOhio[https://web.archive.org/web/20140512221350/http://www.clevelandart.org/research/in-the-library/collection-in-focus/fine-arts-garden The Fine Arts Garden], Cleveland Museum of Art, accessed 2014-05-11.
Florham, former estate of Hamilton and Florence (Vanderbilt) Twombly. Now the campus of Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityFlorham ParkNew Jersey
Forest ParkQueensNew York
Fort Greene ParkBrooklynNew York
Franklin ParkBostonMassachusetts
Genesee Valley ParkRochesterNew York{{cite journal |last=Wickes |first=Majorie |author2=Tim O'Connell |date=April 1988 |title=The Legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted |journal=Rochester History |volume=L |issue=2 |publisher=Rochester Public Library |issn=0035-7413 |url=http://www.rochester.lib.ny.us/~rochhist/v50_1988/v50i2.pdf |accessdate=2007-12-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608180754/http://www.rochester.lib.ny.us/~rochhist/v50_1988/v50i2.pdf |archive-date=2011-06-08 |url-status=dead }}
Glen Magna FarmsDanversMassachusetts
Grand Army PlazaBrooklynNew York
Highland ParkRochesterNew York
Hubbard ParkMeriden, ConnecticutConnecticut
The Institute of LivingHartfordConnecticut1860s
Jackson Park, originally South ParkChicagoIllinois
John T. Davis house (17 Westmoreland Place){{cite journal |url=https://www.stlouisarchitecture.org/pdf/2004%20Spring.pdf |page=3 |title=The Work of the Olmsteds in Missouri |first=Esley |last=Hamilton |volume=10 |number=1 |date=Spring 2004 |journal=The Society of Architectural Historians Missouri Valley Chapter Newsletter |access-date=2021-03-05 |archive-date=2021-11-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211125105348/https://www.stlouisarchitecture.org/pdf/2004%20Spring.pdf |url-status=live }}St. LouisMissouri1892
Lakehurst GardensRoches PointOntarioca. 1870[http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/lhn-nhs/det_E.asp?oqSID=0512&oqeName=Beechcroft+and+Lakehurst+Gardens&oqfName=Jardins+de+Beechcroft+et+Lakehurst Beechcroft and Lakehurst Gardens National Historic Site]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
Lake ParkMilwaukeeWisconsin[http://www.lakeparkfriends.org/history.shtml Lake Park Friends] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090415171234/http://www.lakeparkfriends.org/history.shtml |date=April 15, 2009 }}
Lynn WoodsLynnMassachusetts
Manchester Town CommonManchesterMassachusetts
Manor ParkLarchmontNew York
Masconomo ParkManchesterMassachusetts
Maplewood ParkRochesterNew York
MIT Endicott HouseDedhamMassachusetts
Montebello ParkSt. CatharinesOntario[http://www.stcatharines.ca/recreation/pt/montebello_park.asp Montebello Park] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090404090744/http://www.stcatharines.ca/recreation/pt/montebello_park.asp |date=April 4, 2009 }}. City of St. Catharines. Accessed 2010-05-16.
Morningside ParkNew York CityNew York
Mount Royal ParkMontrealQuebecinaugurated in 1876
Mountain View CemeteryOaklandCaliforniadedicated in 1865
National Zoological ParkWashingtonDistrict of Columbia
Nay Aug ParkScrantonPennsylvania
New York State Hospital for the InsaneBuffaloNew York
Niagara Reservation (now Niagara Falls State Park)Niagara FallsNew Yorkdedicated in 1885
OceanBrooklynNew York
Olmsted Linear Park{{Cite web |url=https://atlantaolmstedpark.org/ |title=Olmsted Linear Park Alliance |access-date=2022-04-20 |archive-date=2022-04-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220425204846/https://atlantaolmstedpark.org/ |url-status=live }}AtlantaGeorgia
Oyster HarborsOstervilleMassachusetts
Piedmont AvenueBerkeleyCalifornia
Roads and green space in central village area of PinehurstPinehurstNorth Carolinaground broken in 1895
Point Chautauqua, a Baptist planned resort communityPoint ChautauquaNew York
Prospect ParkBrooklynNew Yorkfinished 1868
Public Pleasure GroundsSan FranciscoCalifornia
River Park (now Riverside Park)MilwaukeeWisconsin
Village of RiversideRiversideIllinois
Riverside DriveManhattanNew York
Riverside ParkManhattanNew York
The RockeryEastonMassachusetts
Ruggles ParkFall RiverMassachusetts
Seaside ParkBridgeportConnecticut1860s
Seneca ParkRochesterNew York
Shelburne FarmsShelburneVermont
Skillman Epilepsy Hospital (subsequently North Princeton Developmental Center)MontgomeryNew Jersey
South Park (now Kennedy Park)Fall RiverMassachusetts1868
Stanford UniversityPalo AltoCalifornia
Sudbrook ParkBaltimoreMaryland1889
Olmsted Subdivision Historic DistrictSwampscottMassachusetts
United States Capitol groundsWashingtonDistrict of Columbia
Vanderbilt MausoleumStaten IslandNew York
Walnut Hill ParkNew BritainConnecticut
Washington Park{{cite web |last1=Bachin |first1=Robin |title=Washington Park |url=http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1319.html |website=Encyclopedia of Chicago |publisher=Chicago Historical Society |access-date=2020-07-10 |archive-date=2007-10-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012151735/http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1319.html |url-status=live }}ChicagoIllinoiscirca 1870 (blueprints were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871)
West Park Zoological Gardens (now Washington Park)MilwaukeeWisconsin
Whitman Town ParkWhitmanMassachusettscirca 1875
Willow Brook CemeteryWestportConnecticutcirca 1881
Woodburn Circle, West Virginia UniversityMorgantownWest Virginia
Wood Island Park (taken by eminent domain in the 1960s to expand Logan International Airport)BostonMassachusetts
World's Columbian ExpositionChicagoIllinois1893{{cite web |url = http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11369/ |title = Bird's-Eye View of the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893 |website = World Digital Library |year = 1893 |accessdate = 2013-07-17 |archive-date = 2015-05-26 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150526030205/http://www.wdl.org/en/item/11369/ |url-status = live }}
World's End, formerly the John Brewer EstateHingham, MassachusettsMassachusetts1889

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=

=Selected private and civic designs=

By Olmsted and Olmsted, Olmsted Olmsted and Eliot, and Olmsted Brothers:

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