Frederick Law Olmsted
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Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 - 1903) was the creator of New York's Central Park and Boston's Emerald Necklack and is known as the father of landcape architecture in the U.S. His office and home in Brookline, Massachusetts, named "Fairsted", is a National Historic Site.
According to a letter in the archive of the Robert Treat Paine Estate, Paine consulted Olmsted on the layout of the streets in the Round Hill - Sunnyside district and Olmsted provided advice on the planting of the slope between Sunnyside and Edge Hill streets.[1]
Olmsted also collaborated with architect Henry Hobson Richardson on the design of the Robert Treat Paine Estate in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Nearer to Hyde Square, Olmsted's son, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., designed Plant Park (1913), part of the Thomas G. Plant Shoe Factory.[2] This park was built by Plant for the enjoyment of the factory's workers. It stood at the corner of Centre and Walden streets on the current site of the JP Plaza strip mall.
External links
- Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, 99 Warren Street, Brookline, MA
- The Robert Treat Paine Estate, Waltham, MA
