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Frederick Law OlmstedLatest Stories

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Expanding Roots

Nelson Byrd Woltz announces comprehensive plan for Atlanta’s Piedmont Park

Derby City Dispatch

Louisville, Kentucky’s Speed Art Museum announces Speed Outdoors, a new sculpture garden to be designed by Reed Hilderbrand

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A New Leaf

Construction begins on MBB Architects’ sleek visitor center for a Gilded Age arboretum

Recounting History

Boston announces comprehensive master plan for Frederick Law Olmsted’s Franklin Park

Safeguarding a Landscape Legacy

Landslide 2022 shines the spotlight on imperiled Olmsted sites

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Good and Bad News

Daily digest: Olmsted Bicentennial opens at the Library of Congress, New York’s queer beach under threat, and more

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200 Candles

Here’s how to celebrate Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.’s 200th birthday

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Imperiled Olmsted

Landslide 2022 brings under-threat Olmsted landscapes into focus

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One Last Win

H. H. Richardson and John Charles Olmsted homes get temporary reprieve from the wrecking ball

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Preserving an Overlooked Outer Borough Legacy

Frederick Law Olmsted’s Staten Island farmhouse among 18 New York sites recommended for historic listing

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Bigger is Better

Seattle Asian Art Museum will reopen in February after a two year expansion

Noblesse Oblige

Big Plans: Picturing Social Reform employs photography and drawings to capture a movement

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Inside Olmsted

Library of Congress uploads massive collection of Frederick Law Olmsted papers

(Courtesy Obama Foundation)
Fast Tracked

Obama Presidential Center breezes through planning and zoning hurdles, but continues to kindle community concern

(UCLA Urban Simulation Lab).
Bones & Bricks

Digging under Obama library site unearths World’s Fair artifacts, but construction will proceed

Park Earmark

Atlanta’s Piedmont Park slated for $100 million expansion

Plazas in Peril

Why are we wrecking our best modernist landscapes?

Could Olmsted & Bartholomew’s 100-year-old parks plan finally happen in Los Angeles?

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