botanist
Frederick Law Olmsted.
American landscape designer, journalist, social critic, and public administrator (1822-1903)
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About Frederick Law Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmsted was an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is considered to be the father of landscape architecture in the United States. Olmsted was famous for co-designing many well-known urban parks with his partner Calvert Vaux, beginning with Central Park in New York City, which led to numerous other urban park designs including Prospect Park in Brooklyn, Cadwalader Park in Trenton, New Jersey, and Forest Park in Portland, Oregon.
Everything about Frederick Law Olmsted →- Occupation
- botanist, landscape architect, journalist, impresario
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- April 26, 1822
- Died
- August 28, 1903