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 (1867–1873) Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. (1866) Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts (1884–1904) 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) The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, Main Quad (1887–1906) and campus master plan (1886–1914) Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut (1872–1894) 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 (1865–1899) Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (1874–1881)
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 Buttonwood Park Historic District, New Bedford Massachusetts Cadwalader Park Trenton New Jersey Central Park Manhattan New York 1853 (opened in 1856) Cherokee Park Louisville Kentucky Congress Park Saratoga Springs New York Cushing Island Portland Maine D.W. Field Park Brockton Massachusetts Dilworth Charlotte North Carolina 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 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 OhioThe 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 University Florham Park New Jersey Forest Park Queens New York Fort Greene Park Brooklyn New York Franklin Park Boston Massachusetts Genesee Valley Park Rochester New York Glen Magna Farms Danvers Massachusetts Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn New York Highland Park Rochester New York Hubbard Park Meriden, Connecticut Connecticut The Institute of Living Hartford Connecticut 1860s Jackson Park, originally South Park Chicago Illinois John T. Davis house (17 Westmoreland Place) St. Louis Missouri 1892 Lakehurst Gardens Roches Point Ontario ca. 1870Beechcroft and Lakehurst Gardens National Historic Site Lake Park Milwaukee WisconsinLake Park Friends Lynn Woods Lynn Massachusetts Manchester Town Common Manchester Massachusetts Manor Park Larchmont New York Masconomo Park Manchester Massachusetts Maplewood Park Rochester New York MIT Endicott House Dedham Massachusetts Montebello Park St. Catharines OntarioMontebello Park . City of St. Catharines. Accessed 2010-05-16. Morningside Park New York City New York 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 Ocean Parkway Brooklyn New York 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 Public Pleasure Grounds San Francisco California River Park (now Riverside Park) Milwaukee Wisconsin Village of Riverside Riverside Illinois Riverside Drive Manhattan New York Riverside Park Manhattan New York The Rockery Easton Massachusetts Ruggles Park Fall River Massachusetts Seaside Park Bridgeport Connecticut 1860s Seneca Park Rochester New York Shelburne Farms Shelburne Vermont Skillman Epilepsy Hospital (subsequently North Princeton Developmental Center) Montgomery New Jersey South Park (now Kennedy Park) Fall River Massachusetts 1868 Sudbrook Park Baltimore Maryland 1889 Olmsted Subdivision Historic District Swampscott Massachusetts United States Capitol grounds Washington District of Columbia Vanderbilt Mausoleum Staten Island New York Walnut Hill Park New Britain Connecticut Washington Park Chicago Illinois circa 1870 (blueprints were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871) West Park Zoological Gardens (now Washington Park) Milwaukee Wisconsin 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 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) 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 (1925–1931) Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania (1925–1932)* Huntingdon College campus, Montgomery, Alabama Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (1929–1936) Iowa State University Ames, Iowa (1906) Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (1903–1919) 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 (1896–1922) 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 (1886–1914) Troy University, Troy, Alabama Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts (1920) University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1901–1910) 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 (1929–1932) University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island (1894–1903) University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (1902–1920) Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (1896–1932) Western Michigan University Main Campus, Kalamazoo, Michigan (1904) Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts (1902–1912)
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 YorkOlmstead Brothers. "Craig Colony General Plan, Sonyea, NY." (Map) Brookline, MA: Dec. 1899. Collection of Livingston County Historian's' Office, Mt. Morris, NY. 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 Hiawatha Playfield, Seattle, Washington 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