Frederick Law Olmstead
Saturday January 10, 2009
Frederick Law Olmstead is known as the father of landscape architecture and is responsible for the design of countless parks, university campuses, and other important and historic sites around North America. Learn about Frederick Law Olmstead from this new biography.
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Olmstead also wrote one of my favorite travelogues: A Journey through Texas: Or a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier, about his travels in 1850s frontier Texas.
As a child I saw stereopticon pictures of the Columbian Exposition. (A device for viewing post card sized three D photos with really awesome effect.) Of course I didn’t know that much of what I saw was his design until many years later.