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Index Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted (April 26, 1822 – August 28, 1903) was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator.[1]

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  1. 139 relations: Activism, Adirondack Mountains, American Civil War, Andrew Jackson Downing, Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., Asheville, North Carolina, Belle Isle Park, Belmont, Massachusetts, Biltmore Estate, Birkenhead Park, Boston, Brookline, Massachusetts, Brooklyn, Buffalo History Museum, Buffalo, New York, Cadwalader Park, California, Calvert Vaux, Central Park, Central Park Mall, Charles Loring Brace, Cherokee Park, Chicago park and boulevard system, Conservation movement, Daniel Burnham, Daniel F. Tiemann, David W. Blight, Dementia, Edmund Wilson, Edwin Lawrence Godkin, Egbert Ludovicus Viele, Emerald Necklace, Erastus Wiman, Essex, Forest Park (Portland, Oregon), Frederick E. Olmsted, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Frederick T. van Beuren Jr., George B. McClellan, Giraffe, Hartford, Connecticut, Henry Clay (steamboat), Henry Hobson Richardson, Highland Park (Rochester, New York), History of gardening, Hudson River, Hudson River State Hospital, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Jackson Park (Chicago), ... Expand index (89 more) »

  2. Artists from Staten Island
  3. McLean Hospital people
  4. Russell Sage Foundation

Activism

Activism (or advocacy) consists of efforts to promote, impede, direct or intervene in social, political, economic or environmental reform with the desire to make changes in society toward a perceived greater good.

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Adirondack Mountains

The Adirondack Mountains are a massif of mountains in Northeastern New York which form a circular dome approximately wide and covering about.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Andrew Jackson Downing

Andrew Jackson Downing (October 31, 1815 – July 28, 1852) was an American landscape designer, horticulturist, writer, prominent advocate of the Gothic Revival in the United States, and editor of ''The Horticulturist'' magazine (1846–1852). Frederick Law Olmsted and Andrew Jackson Downing are American landscape and garden designers.

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Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr.

Arthur Meier Schlesinger (February 27, 1888 – October 30, 1965) was an American historian who taught at Harvard University, pioneering social history and urban history.

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Asheville, North Carolina

Asheville is a city in and the county seat of Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States.

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Belle Isle Park

Belle Isle Park, known simply as Belle Isle, is a island park in Detroit, Michigan, developed in the late 19th century.

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Belmont, Massachusetts

Belmont is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Biltmore Estate

Biltmore Estate is a historic house museum and tourist attraction in Asheville, North Carolina.

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Birkenhead Park

Birkenhead Park is a major public park located in the centre of Birkenhead, Merseyside, England.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Brookline, Massachusetts

Brookline is a town in Norfolk County, Massachusetts, United States, and part of the Boston metropolitan area.

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Brooklyn

Brooklyn is a borough of New York City.

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Buffalo History Museum

The Buffalo History Museum (founded as the Buffalo Historical Society, and later named the Buffalo and Erie County Historical Society) is located at 1 Museum Court (formerly 25 Nottingham Court) in Buffalo, New York, just east of Elmwood Avenue and off of Nottingham Terrace, north of the Scajaquada Expressway, in the northwest corner of Delaware Park.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Erie County.

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Cadwalader Park

Cadwalader Park is a city park located in Trenton, Mercer County, New Jersey, United States.

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California

California is a state in the Western United States, lying on the American Pacific Coast.

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Calvert Vaux

Calvert Vaux FAIA (December 20, 1824 – November 19, 1895) was an English-American architect and landscape designer. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux are American landscape and garden designers, American landscape architects and Central Park.

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Central Park

Central Park is an urban park between the Upper West Side and Upper East Side neighborhoods of Manhattan in New York City that was the first landscaped park in the United States.

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Central Park Mall

The Central Park Mall is a pedestrian esplanade in Central Park, in Manhattan, New York City. Frederick Law Olmsted and Central Park Mall are Central Park.

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Charles Loring Brace

Charles Loring Brace (June 19, 1826 – August 11, 1890) was an American philanthropist who contributed to the field of social reform.

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Cherokee Park

Cherokee Park is a municipal park located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States and is part of the Louisville Olmsted Parks Conservancy.

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Chicago park and boulevard system

The historic Chicago park and boulevard system is a ring of parks connected by wide, planted-median boulevards that winds through the north, west, and south sides of the City of Chicago.

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Conservation movement

The conservation movement, also known as nature conservation, is a political, environmental, and social movement that seeks to manage and protect natural resources, including animal, fungus, and plant species as well as their habitat for the future.

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Daniel Burnham

Daniel Hudson Burnham (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban designer. Frederick Law Olmsted and Daniel Burnham are American urban planners.

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Daniel F. Tiemann

Daniel Fawcett Tiemann (January 9, 1805 – June 29, 1899) was Mayor of New York City from 1858 to 1860.

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David W. Blight

David William Blight (born 1949) is the Sterling Professor of History, of African American Studies, and of American Studies and Director of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University.

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Dementia

Dementia is a syndrome associated with many neurodegenerative diseases, characterized by a general decline in cognitive abilities that affects a person's ability to perform everyday activities.

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Edmund Wilson

Edmund Wilson Jr. (May 8, 1895 – June 12, 1972) was an American writer, literary critic and journalist.

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Edwin Lawrence Godkin

Edwin Lawrence Godkin (2 October 183121 May 1902) was an American journalist and newspaper editor.

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Egbert Ludovicus Viele

Egbert Ludovicus Viele (June 17, 1825 – April 22, 1902) was a civil engineer and United States Representative from New York from 1885 to 1887, as well as an officer in the Union army during the American Civil War.

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Emerald Necklace

The Emerald Necklace consists of a chain of parks linked by parkways and waterways in Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts.

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Erastus Wiman

Erastus Wiman (21 April 1834 – 9 February 1904) was a Canadian journalist and businessman who later moved to the United States.

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Essex

Essex is a ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties.

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Forest Park (Portland, Oregon)

Forest Park is a public municipal park in the Tualatin Mountains west of downtown Portland, Oregon, United States.

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Frederick E. Olmsted

Frederick Erskine Olmsted, also known as Fritz Olmsted, (November 8, 1872 – February 19, 1925) was an American forester and one of the founders of American forestry.

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Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.

Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (July 24, 1870 – December 25, 1957) was an American landscape architect and city planner known for his wildlife conservation efforts. Frederick Law Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. are American landscape architects, American urban planners and Artists from Staten Island.

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Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site is a United States National Historic Site located in Brookline, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston.

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Frederick T. van Beuren Jr.

Frederick T. van Beuren Jr., M.D. (February 10, 1876 – March 13, 1943) was a physician, surgeon, medical school administrator, professor, researcher, and hospital administrator.

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George B. McClellan

George Brinton McClellan (December 3, 1826 – October 29, 1885) was an American military officer and politician who served as the 24th governor of New Jersey and as Commanding General of the United States Army from November 1861 to March 1862.

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Giraffe

The giraffe is a large African hoofed mammal belonging to the genus Giraffa.

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Hartford, Connecticut

Hartford is the capital city of the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Henry Clay (steamboat)

Henry Clay was an American side paddle wheel steamboat.

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Henry Hobson Richardson

Henry Hobson Richardson, FAIA (September 29, 1838 – April 27, 1886) was an American architect, best known for his work in a style that became known as Richardsonian Romanesque.

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Highland Park (Rochester, New York)

Highland Park, also known as Highland Botanical Park, is an arboretum in Rochester, New York, United States.

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History of gardening

The early history of gardening is largely entangled with the history of agriculture, with gardens that were mainly ornamental generally the preserve of the elite until quite recent times.

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Hudson River

The Hudson River is a river that flows from north to south primarily through eastern New York, United States.

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Hudson River State Hospital

The Hudson River State Hospital is a former New York state psychiatric hospital which operated from 1873 until its closure in the early 2000s.

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International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement

The organized International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement is a humanitarian movement with approximately 16million volunteers, members, and staff worldwide.

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Jackson Park (Chicago)

Jackson Park is a urban park located on the South Side of Chicago.

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John C. Frémont

John Charles Frémont (January 21, 1813July 13, 1890) was an American explorer, military officer, and politician.

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John Charles Olmsted

John Charles Olmsted (September 14, 1852 – February 24, 1920) was an American landscape architect. Frederick Law Olmsted and John Charles Olmsted are American landscape architects.

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John Townsend Trowbridge

John Townsend Trowbridge (September 18, 1827 – February 12, 1916) was an American author.

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Joseph Paxton

Sir Joseph Paxton (3 August 1803 – 8 June 1865) was an English gardener, architect, engineer and Member of Parliament, best known for designing the Crystal Palace and for cultivating the Cavendish banana, the most consumed banana in the Western world.

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Landscape architect

A landscape architect is a person who is educated in the field of landscape architecture.

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Landscape architecture

Landscape architecture is the design of outdoor areas, landmarks, and structures to achieve environmental, social-behavioural, or aesthetic outcomes.

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Landscape design

Landscape design is an independent profession and a design and art tradition, practiced by landscape designers, combining nature and culture.

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Lawrenceville School

The Lawrenceville School is a coeducational preparatory school for boarding and day students located in the Lawrenceville section of Lawrence Township, in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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List of Olmsted works

The landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, and later of his sons John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (known as the Olmsted Brothers), produced designs and plans for hundreds of parks, campuses and other projects throughout the United States and Canada.

See Frederick Law Olmsted and List of Olmsted works

Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville is the most populous city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States.

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Marquette, Michigan

Marquette is the county seat of Marquette County and the largest city in the Upper Peninsula of the U.S. state of Michigan.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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McLean Hospital

McLean Hospital (formerly known as Somerville Asylum and Charlestown Asylum) is a psychiatric hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts.

See Frederick Law Olmsted and McLean Hospital

Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States

The Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS), or, simply, the Loyal Legion, is a United States military order organized on April 15, 1865, by three veteran officers of the Union Army.

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Milwaukee

Milwaukee is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin and the seat of Milwaukee County.

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Montebello Park

Montebello Park is a public park in downtown St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.

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Montreal

Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.

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Morris Ketchum

Morris Ketchum (February 5, 1796 – January 1, 1880) was an American banker and financier of the 19th century.

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Morristown, New Jersey

Morristown is a town in and the county seat of Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Mount Holyoke College

Mount Holyoke College is a private liberal arts women's college in South Hadley, Massachusetts, United States.

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Mount Royal

Mount Royal (Mont Royal) is a mountain in the city of Montreal, immediately west of Downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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New Britain, Connecticut

New Britain is a city in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States.

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New Kent County, Virginia

New Kent County is a county in the south eastern part the Commonwealth of Virginia.

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New Vernon, New Jersey

New Vernon is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located within Harding Township in Morris County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

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Newburgh, New York

Newburgh is a city in Orange County, New York, United States.

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Niagara Falls

Niagara Falls is a group of three waterfalls at the southern end of Niagara Gorge, spanning the border between the province of Ontario in Canada and the state of New York in the United States.

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Niagara Falls State Park

Niagara Falls State Park is located in the City of Niagara Falls in Niagara County, New York, United States.

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Niagara Falls, New York

Niagara Falls is a city in Niagara County, New York, United States.

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Old North Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut)

The Old North Cemetery is a cemetery on Main Street in the Clay-Arsenal neighborhood north of downtown Hartford, Connecticut.

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Olmsted (name)

Olmsted is a surname.

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Olmsted Brothers

The Olmsted Brothers company was a landscape architectural firm in the United States, established in 1898 by brothers John Charles Olmsted (1852–1920) and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (1870–1957), sons of the landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Frederick Law Olmsted and Olmsted Brothers are American landscape architects.

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Olmsted Point

Olmsted Point is a viewing area off Tioga Pass Road in Yosemite National Park which offers a view south into Tenaya Canyon, giving, in particular, a view of the northern side of Half Dome, Clouds Rest, and a view of Tenaya Lake to the east.

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Olmsted–Beil House

The Olmsted–Beil House was a large farm and modest Dutch farmhouse at 4515 Hylan Boulevard (near Woods of Arden Road) in the South Shore of Staten Island, New York City.

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Ontario

Ontario is the southernmost province of Canada.

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Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto (Spanish for) is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after a coastal redwood tree known as El Palo Alto.

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Pamunkey River

The Pamunkey River is a tributary of the York River, about long,U.S. Geological Survey.

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Panic of 1857

The Panic of 1857 was a financial crisis in the United States caused by the declining international economy and over-expansion of the domestic economy.

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Peninsula campaign

The Peninsula campaign (also known as the Peninsular campaign) of the American Civil War was a major Union operation launched in southeastern Virginia from March to July 1862, the first large-scale offensive in the Eastern Theater.

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A planned community, planned city, planned town, or planned settlement is any community that was carefully planned from its inception and is typically constructed on previously undeveloped land.

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Portland, Maine

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maine and the seat of Cumberland County.

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Portland, Oregon

Portland is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Oregon, located in the Pacific Northwest region.

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Poughkeepsie, New York

Poughkeepsie, officially the City of Poughkeepsie, which is separate from the Town of Poughkeepsie around it, is a city in the U.S. state of New York.

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Presque Isle Park

Presque Isle Park is a 323-acre public park located in Marquette, Michigan, United States.

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Prospect Park (Brooklyn)

Prospect Park is a urban park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn.

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Putnam's Magazine

Putnam's Monthly Magazine of American Literature, Science and Art was a monthly periodical published by G. P. Putnam's Sons featuring American literature and articles on science, art, and politics.

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Quebec

QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Rancho Las Mariposas

Rancho Las Mariposas was a Mexican land grant in Alta California, located in present-day Mariposa County, California.

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Richardson Olmsted Complex

The Richardson Olmsted Campus in Buffalo, New York, United States, was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1986.

See Frederick Law Olmsted and Richardson Olmsted Complex

Riverside, Illinois

Riverside is a suburban village in Cook County, Illinois, United States.

See Frederick Law Olmsted and Riverside, Illinois

Rochester, New York

Rochester is a city in the U.S. state of New York and the county seat of Monroe County.

See Frederick Law Olmsted and Rochester, New York

Sanitary Fair

Sanitary fairs were fund-raising events held in various cities on behalf of the United States Sanitary Commission to raise funds and supplies for the Union Army during the American Civil War.

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Seneca Park Zoo

Seneca Park Zoo is a 20-acre (6.3 ha) zoo located in the city of Rochester, New York, US.

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Sierra Nevada

The Sierra Nevada is a mountain range in the Western United States, between the Central Valley of California and the Great Basin.

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Smith College

Smith College is a private liberal arts women's college in Northampton, Massachusetts.

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Social criticism is a form of academic or journalistic criticism focusing on social issues in contemporary society, in respect to perceived injustices and power relations in general.

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Sons of the American Revolution

The Sons of the American Revolution (SAR), formally the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (NSSAR), is a federally chartered patriotic organization.

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Southern United States

The Southern United States, sometimes Dixie, also referred to as the Southern States, the American South, the Southland, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a geographic and cultural region of the United States.

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Stanford University

Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) is a private research university in Stanford, California.

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Staten Island

Staten Island is the southernmost borough of New York City, coextensive with Richmond County and situated at the southernmost point of New York.

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Stephen W. Sears

Stephen Ward Sears (born July 27, 1932) is an American historian specializing in the American Civil War.

See Frederick Law Olmsted and Stephen W. Sears

Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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The Devil in the White City

The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America is a 2003 historical non-fiction book by Erik Larson presented in a novelistic style.

See Frederick Law Olmsted and The Devil in the White City

The Horticulturist (magazine)

The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste was a monthly magazine on "horticulture, landscape gardening, rural architecture, embellishments, pomology, floriculture, and all subjects of rural life, literature, art, and taste".

See Frederick Law Olmsted and The Horticulturist (magazine)

The Institute of Living

The Institute of Living is a comprehensive psychiatric facility in Hartford, Connecticut, that offers care across the spectrum of psychiatric services, including crisis evaluation, inpatient psychiatric care, group homes, specialized educational programs, outpatient programs, and addiction recovery services.

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The Nation

The Nation is a progressive American monthly magazine that covers political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.

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The New York Review of Books

The New York Review of Books (or NYREV or NYRB) is a semi-monthly magazine with articles on literature, culture, economics, science and current affairs.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Toxicodendron vernix

Toxicodendron vernix, commonly known as poison sumac, or swamp-sumach, is a woody shrub or small tree growing to 9 metres (30 feet) tall.

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Trenton, New Jersey

Trenton is the capital city of the U.S. state of New Jersey and the county seat of Mercer County.

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Trinity College (Connecticut)

Trinity College is a private liberal arts college in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.

See Frederick Law Olmsted and Trinity College (Connecticut)

Union Army

During the American Civil War, the United States Army, the land force that fought to preserve the collective Union of the states, was often referred to as the Union Army, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Federal Army, or the Northern Army.

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Union League Club

The Union League Club is a private social club in New York City that was founded in 1863 in affiliation with the Union League.

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United States Colored Troops

United States Colored Troops (USCT) were Union Army regiments during the American Civil War that primarily comprised African Americans, with soldiers from other ethnic groups also serving in USCT units.

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United States Sanitary Commission

The United States Sanitary Commission (USSC) was a private relief agency created by federal legislation on June 18, 1861, to support sick and wounded soldiers of the United States Army (Federal / Northern / Union Army) during the American Civil War.

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University of California, Berkeley

The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California.

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University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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University of Hartford

The University of Hartford (UHart) is a private university in West Hartford, Connecticut.

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University of Maine

The University of Maine (UMaine) is a public land-grant research university in Orono, Maine.

See Frederick Law Olmsted and University of Maine

Walnut Hill Park

Walnut Hill Park is a large public park west of downtown New Britain, Connecticut.

See Frederick Law Olmsted and Walnut Hill Park

Washington Park (Chicago park)

Washington Park (formerly Western Division of South Park, also Park No. 21) is a park between Cottage Grove Avenue and Martin Luther King Drive, (originally known as "Grand Boulevard") located at 5531 S. Martin Luther King Dr.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly known as Washington or D.C., is the capital city and federal district of the United States.

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Wellesley College

Wellesley College is a private women's liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

See Frederick Law Olmsted and Wellesley College

White House (plantation)

The White House was a late 17th-century plantation on the Pamunkey River near White House in New Kent County, Virginia.

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Wisconsin

Wisconsin is a state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwest of the United States.

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World's Columbian Exposition

The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World's Fair, was a world's fair held in Chicago from May 5 to October 31, 1893, to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus's arrival in the New World in 1492.

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World's fair

A world's fair, also known as a universal exhibition or an expo, is a large global exhibition designed to showcase the achievements of nations.

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Yale College

Yale College is the undergraduate college of Yale University.

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Yosemite National Park

Yosemite National Park is a national park in California.

See Frederick Law Olmsted and Yosemite National Park

Yosemite Valley

Yosemite Valley (Yosemite, Miwok for "killer") is a glacial valley in Yosemite National Park in the western Sierra Nevada mountains of Central California, United States.

See Frederick Law Olmsted and Yosemite Valley

See also

Artists from Staten Island

McLean Hospital people

Russell Sage Foundation

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Law_Olmsted

Also known as F. L. Olmsted, Frederic Law Olmstead, Frederick L. Olmsted, Frederick Law Olmstead, Frederick Olmstead, Frederick Olmsted, Fredrick Law Olmsted, Olmsted,Frederick Law.

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