Frederick Law Olmsted

Charles E. Beveridge is the series editor of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted. Lauren Meier is the associate editor and Irene Mills is the assistant editor for this volume.

• AcknowledgmentIntroduction1. New York City, New YorkCentral ParkTompkins SquareUnion SquareRiverside ParkMorningside Park2. San Francisco, CaliforniaPleasure Grounds System3. Yosemite Valley and Mariposa Big Tree Grove, CaliforniaReservation4. Brooklyn, New YorkProspect ParkFort Greene ParkTompkins ParkBrooklyn Parkways5. Bridgeport, ConnecticutSeaside ParkBeardsley Park6. Newark, New JerseyProposed Park7. Albany, New YorkProposed Park System8. Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaFairmount Park9. New Britain, ConnecticutWalnut Hill Park10. Buffalo, New YorkPark System, 1870sParkwaysNiagara SquareThe Park (Delaware Park)The FrontThe ParadeLater Extensions and AlterationsSouth Park, 1888 (Proposed)Southside Park System, 1890s11. Fall River, MassachusettsSouth Park12. Hartford, ConnecticutSystem of Public Grounds13. Chicago, IllinoisSouth Park- The Era of 1871-1893The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893- The Lagoon and Wooded IslandPost-Exposition Redesign and Construction of Jackson ParkWashington Park, Post-1893The Midway PlaisanceBoulevards14. Amherst, MassachusettsTown Common15. Baltimore, MarylandMount Vernon Square16. Montreal, QuebecMount Royal17. Detroit, MichiganBelle Isle18. North Easton, MassachusettsMemorial Cairn19. Boston, MassachusettsThe Park SystemCommonwealth AvenueThe Back Bay FensMuddy River Sanitary Improvement, Brookline and BostonOlmstead Park, Boston and BrooklineJamaica Pond and Environs, BostonThe ArborwayThe Arnold ArboretumFranklin ParkFranklin FieldParkways from Franklin Park to Marine ParkMarine ParkBoston Harbor Islands ProposalCharlesbankWood Island ParkCharlestown HeightsCharlestown Playground20. New London, ConnecticutMemorial Park21. St. Catharine's, OntarioMontebello Park22. Niagara Falls, New YorkNiagara Reservation23. Pawtucket, Rhode IslandPublic Recreation Grounds (Proposed)24. Wilmington, DelawareKentmere Parkway25. Trenton, New JerseyCadwalader Park26. Rochester, New YorkPark SystemGenesse Valley ParkHighland ParkSeneca Park27. Louisville, KentuckyPark SystemCherokee ParkIroquois ParkShawnee ParkLouisville ParkwaysLouisville Squares and Places28. Kansas City, MissouriEleventh Street Parkway and Park System (Proposed)Milwaukee, WisconsinPark SystemWest ParkRiver ParkLake Park30. Newburgh, New YorkDowning Park31. Newport, Rhode IslandMorton Park

Anyone interested in the fields of landscape design would surely want this book as a reference or simply as a celebration of the first and foremost American landscape architect. Garden Design Online Peer into the mind of the nation's most prolific park maker with this book, which showcases more than 70 public spaces designed by Frederick Law Olmsted... Plans and Views of Public Parks is a visual compendium of Olmsted's work, taking readers on a visual tour through some of America's most significant public landscapes. -- Eryn Carlson Boston Globe Enlightening and lavishly illustrated... Whether your interest is in Olmsted and his work, landscape architecture in general, the development of nature-based recreation, or American history, Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks can provide a substantial expansion and deepening of your thoughts in your area of interest, as well as help connect it to other related (and perhaps even previously unconsidered) areas of study. Well-read Naturalist A welcome addition to Olmsted scholarship and an excellent companion to the series documenting his extensive papers. Library Journal [ Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks] is a treasure trove of visual materials, with surprises for even the Olmstedian aficionado. Landscape Architecture Magazine Beveridge, the preeminent Olmsted scholar... gathers in a sumptuous, gorgeous volume of the designs that defined what made many American cities great, and livable. Harvard Magazine These visual documents will generate historical evidence and interpretive questions alike, surely the mark of an important contribution. New England Quarterly Had Olmsted never existed, someone else surely would have applied the moral force of this ethic to landscape design, making parks the vehicle of social reform. But it is inconceivable that anyone else would have had the same deep cistern of human sympathy to drawn on. First Things