Shared Spaces

Friends of Fairsted Announces 2021 Beveridge Research Fellowship Awards

Friends of Fairsted announces their 2021 Beveridge Research Fellowship Award recipients and the application for 2022.

Olmsted Insider Newsletter – July 2021

Which park is your favorite? And what do you most enjoy in your neighborhood park? We would like to know. And what better time to share than during National Park and Recreation Month!  This special month is spearheaded by the National Recreation and Park Association, an Olmsted 200 founding partner. The theme is “Our Park and Recreation […]

Greater & Greener Call for Session Proposals Opens July 2021

City Parks Alliance's Greater & Greener conference will be hosted in Philadelphia, PA next summer, and the call for speaker presentations is now open! Share your work with 1,000+ park practitioners from around the world at North America's premier international urban parks conference.

Conversations with Olmsted: Creating Parks for the Age

The second installment of Olmsted 200's Conversations with Olmsted series, hosted by the National Association for Olmsted Parks, explored different aspects of Olmsted’s far-reaching influence on America’s physical landscape and social fabric.

Spotlight on… Mount Royal, Montréal

In 1869, after a decade of toying with the idea of creating a park on Mount Royal, the City of Montréal began the process of acquiring the land to achieve its vision. The land purchase alone cost Montréal the equivalent of close to a full year’s budget. The City Council then went straight to Frederick […]

Encountering Olmsted

In this blog post, Jane Loeffler, a historian and artist in DC, reflects on her career and its many connections to Olmsted. The piece features original artwork by Jane herself.

FLO: An Artist of the Heart, Not the Head

'I found myself heading directly for a place I’ve visited countless times...almost as if pulled by a magnet," writes Justin Martin, author of Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted. In this piece, Justin reflects on how Olmsted landscapes have shaped his life and his family's life— knowingly and unknowingly.

Tracking the Olmsted Heritage in Connecticut

In June 2021, Preservation Connecticut, with a grant from the state’s Office of Economic and Community Development, kicked off what is a first of its kind: a historical context and statewide survey of Connecticut’s Olmsted landscape legacy to be undertaken by the Red Bridge Group. The work will explore and document Frederick Law Olmsted’s unique connection to Connecticut to understand how this seminal 19th-century figure was shaped by his early life experiences of the state’s people and places, and how they contributed to his becoming the country’s first professional landscape architect, remembered today for a park movement that spanned the continent.

Record-breaking FLOmingos Expected at BOPC in 2022

Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy announces plans to reclaim the GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS title for the "Longest line of garden flamingos" in honor of FLO's 200th birthday in 2022.