List of Olmsted works

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 (Roches Point, Ontario, St. Catherines, Ontario, Vancouver, British Columbia, Montreal, Quebec). 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.

• 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 (1867–73)
• Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey
• Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. (1866)
• Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts
• Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey (1883–1901)
• Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York
• Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
• Noble and Greenough School, Dedham, Massachusetts
• Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (1891–1965)
• Pomfret School, Pomfret, Connecticut
• St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.)
• Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts (1891–1909)
• Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, Main Quad (1887–1906) and campus master plan (1886–1914)[1]
• Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut (1872–94)
• 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, St. Louis, Missouri (1865–99)
• Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
• Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (1874–81)

Selected private and civic designs

By Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.:

Project	City	State or province	Date
Arnold Arboretum	Boston	Massachusetts	1877
Back Bay Fens, Arborway and Riverway	Boston	Massachusetts	1890s-1900
Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park	Great River	New York, on Long Island
Beardsley Park	Bridgeport	Connecticut	1884
Belle Isle Park	Detroit	Michigan	master plan and landscape in the 1880s
Biltmore Estate grounds	Asheville	North Carolina	1890-1895
Brandywine Park	Wilmington	Delaware	1886
Buffalo, New York parks system	Buffalo	New York
Butler Hospital	Providence	Rhode Island
Buttonwood Park	New Bedford	Massachusetts
Cadwalader Park	Trenton	New Jersey
Central Park	Manhattan	New York	1853 (opened in 1856)[2]
Cherokee Park	Louisville	Kentucky
Congress Park	Saratoga Springs	New York
Cushing Island	Portland	Maine
D.W. Field Park	Brockton	Massachusetts
Downing Park	Newburgh	New 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 Parkway	Brooklyn	New York[2]
Edgewood Park	Westville, New Haven	Connecticut
Elizabeth Park	Hartford & West Hartford	Connecticut
Elmwood Cemetery	Detroit	Michigan
Emerald Necklace	Boston	Massachusetts
Filmore Farm Charles Henry Jones	Weston	Massachusetts	circa 1880
Fine Arts Garden	Cleveland	Ohio[3]
Florham, former estate of Hamilton and Florence (Vanderbilt) Twombly. Now the campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University	Florham Park	New Jersey
Forest Park	Springfield	Massachusetts	designed in 1893
Forest Park	Queens	New York[2]
Fort Greene Park	Brooklyn	New York[2]
Franklin Park	Boston	Massachusetts
Genesee Valley Park	Rochester	New York[4]
Glen Magna Farms	Danvers	Massachusetts
Grand Army Plaza	Brooklyn	New York[2]
Highland Park	Rochester	New York[4]
Hubbard Park	Meriden, Connecticut	Connecticut
The Institute of Living	Hartford	Connecticut	1860s
Jackson Park, originally South Park	Chicago	Illinois
Kykuit Gardens, Rockefeller family estate	Mount Pleasant	New York	from 1897
Lakehurst Gardens	Roches Point	Ontario	ca. 1870[5]
Lake Park	Milwaukee	Wisconsin[6]
Lynn Woods	Lynn	Massachusetts
Manchester Town Common	Manchester	Massachusetts
Manor Park	Larchmont	New York
Masconomo Park	Manchester	Massachusetts
Maplewood Park	Rochester	New York[4]
MIT Endicott House	Dedham	Massachusetts
Montebello Park	St. Catharines	Ontario[7]
Morningside Park	New York City	New York[2]
Mount Royal Park	Montreal	Quebec	inaugurated in 1876
Mountain View Cemetery	Oakland	California	dedicated in 1865
National Zoological Park	Washington	District of Columbia
Nay Aug Park	Scranton	Pennsylvania
New York State Hospital for the Insane	Buffalo	New York
Niagara Reservation (now Niagara Falls State Park)	Niagara Falls	New York	dedicated in 1885
North Park	Fall River	Massachusetts	1901[8]
Ocean Parkway	Brooklyn	New York[2]
Olmsted Linear Park	Atlanta	Georgia
Oyster Harbors	Osterville	Massachusetts
Piedmont Avenue	Berkeley	California
Roads and green space in central village area of Pinehurst	Pinehurst	North Carolina	ground broken in 1895
Point Chautauqua, a Baptist planned resort community	Point Chautauqua	New York
Prospect Park	Brooklyn	New York	finished 1868[2]
Public Pleasure Grounds	San Francisco	California
River Park (now Riverside Park)	Milwaukee	Wisconsin[6]
Village of Riverside	Riverside	Illinois
Riverside Drive	Manhattan	New York[2]
Riverside Park	Manhattan	New York[2]
The Rockery	Easton	Massachusetts
Ruggles Park	Fall River	Massachusetts
Seaside Park	Bridgeport	Connecticut	1860s
Seneca Park	Rochester	New York[4]
Shelburne Farms	Shelburne	Vermont
Skillman Epilepsy Hospital (subsequently North Princeton Developmental Center)	Montgomery	New Jersey
South Park (now Kennedy Park)	Fall River	Massachusetts	1868
Stanford University	Palo Alto	California
Sudbrook Park	Baltimore	Maryland	1889
Olmsted Subdivision Historic District	Swampscott	Massachusetts
United States Capitol grounds	Washington	District of Columbia
Landscape of the Town of Vandergrift	Vanderbilt	Pennsylvania	1895
Vanderbilt Mausoleum	Staten Island	New York[2]
Walnut Hill Park	New Britain	Connecticut
Washington Park[9]	Chicago	Illinois	circa 1870 (blueprints were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871)
West Park Zoological Gardens (now Washington Park)	Milwaukee	Wisconsin[6]
Whitman Town Park	Whitman	Massachusetts	circa 1875
Willow Brook Cemetery	Westport	Connecticut	circa 1881
Woodburn Circle, West Virginia University	Morgantown	West Virginia
Wood Island Park (taken by eminent domain in the 1960s to expand Logan International Airport)	Boston	Massachusetts
World's Columbian Exposition	Chicago	Illinois	1893[10]
World's End, formerly the John Brewer Estate	Hingham, Massachusetts	Massachusetts	1889

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 (1895–1927)
• Chatham University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Denison University, Granville, Ohio (1916)
• Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee (1929-1933)[11]
• Florence State Teachers College, Florence, Alabama (University of North Alabama) [12]
• Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania (1929)[13]
• Harvard Business School, Allston, Massachusetts (1925–31)
• Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania (1925–32)*
• Huntingdon College campus,[14] Montgomery, Alabama
• Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (1929–1936) [15]
• Iowa State University Ames, Iowa (1906)
• Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (1903–19)
• Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania (1909)
• Lincoln Institute, Lincoln Ridge, Kentucky (1911)
• Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana [16]
• Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky (1923)
• Middlesex School, Concord, Massachusetts (1901)
• Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts (1896–1922)
• Newton Country Day School, Newton, Massachusetts (1927)
• Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio (1903) [17]
• Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (1909)[18]
• Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon (1909) [19]
• Roslyn High School, Roslyn, New York (1920s)[20]
• Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut
• Samford University, Homewood, Alabama
• Stanford University, Stanford, California (1886–1914)
• Troy University, Troy, Alabama[21]
• Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts (1920)
• University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1901–10)
• University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (1925)
• University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho (1908)[22][23]
• University of Montevallo, Montevallo, Alabama[24]
• University of Maine, Orono, Maine (1932)
• University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (1929–32)
• University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island (1894–1903)
• University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (1902–20)
• Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (1896–1932)
• Western Michigan University Main Campus, Kalamazoo, Michigan (1904)[25]
• Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts (1902–12)

Selected private and civic designs

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

"Allgates," Horatio Gates Lloyd house, Cooperstown Road, Haverford, Pennsylvania (1911–1915)

• 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.[26]
• 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[27]
• Carroll Park, Baltimore, Maryland
• Cleveland Metroparks System, in the Greater Cleveland area, Ohio
• Crocker Field, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
• Deering Oaks, Portland, Maine
• 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
• Grover Cleveland Park, Caldwell, New Jersey
• High Point Park, Montague, New Jersey
• Homelands Neighborhood, Springfield, Massachusetts
• "New" Katonah, Katonah, New York
• Kentucky State Capitol Grounds, Frankfort, Kentucky
• Kohler (Village of), Wisconsin[28]
• Leimert Park Neighborhood, Los Angeles
• Locust Valley Cemetery, Locust Valley, New York
• Metro Parks, Summit County, Ohio [29]
• 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
• Otto Kahn Estate, Cold Spring Hills, New York
• Oldfields-Lilly House and Gardens,[30] a National Historic Landmark, originally Hugh Landon estate (Olmsted job # 6883 1920–1927) , Indianapolis, Indiana
• Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Georgia
• Planting Fields, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York
• Pope Park, Hartford, Connecticut
• The Portland park plan, Portland, Oregon
• Prouty Garden, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston This garden is at risk of being destroyed for redevelopment purposes.[31]
• Pulaski Park, Holyoke, Massachusetts
• Rahway River Parkway Union County, New Jersey[32]
• Riverside Park, Hartford, Connecticut[33]
• Rancho Los Alamitos Gardens, Long Beach, California
• Riverbend, Walter J. Kohler, Sr. estate grounds, Kohler, Wisconsin
• Seattle Park System[34]
• 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 Park System[35]
• Springdale Park, Holyoke, Massachusetts
• Thompson Park and roadways, Watertown, New York
• Union County, New Jersey Park System
• Utica, New York Parks and Parkway System (1908–1914)
• 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[36]
• Watsessing Park, Bloomfield, New Jersey
• Weequahic Park, Weequahic section of Newark, New Jersey
• The Highlands Neighborhood, Seattle[37]
• Barberrys, Nelson Doubleday House, Mill Neck, New York (1919–1924)
• "Allgates," Horatio Gates Lloyd house, Cooperstown Road, Haverford, Pennsylvania (1911–1915)

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