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Library of America 270Olmstead, Gail Ward
Summary: New York, 1858: Mary, a young widow with three children, agrees to marry her brother-in-law Frederick Law Olmsted, who is acting on his late brother's deathbed plea to "not let Mary suffer." But she craves more than a marriage of convenience and sets out to win her husband's love. Beginning with Central Park in New York City, Mary joins Fred on his quest to create a 'beating green heart' in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rose Writing 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A biography of the man who made public parks an essential part of American life. He made enormous contributions to the American landscape, believing a park was both a work of art and a necessity for urban life. Olmsted's efforts to preserve nature created an "environmental ethic" decades before the environmental movement became a force in American politics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712.0237 FREHoward, Hugh
Summary: "As the nation recovered from a cataclysmic war, two titans of design profoundly influenced how Americans came to interact with the built and natural world around them through their pioneering work in architecture and landscape design. Frederick Law Olmsted is widely revered as America's first and finest parkmaker and environmentalist, the force behind Manhattan's Central Park, Brooklyn's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712.092 HOWOlmsted, Frederick Law
Summary: The biggest and best single-volume collection ever published of the fascinating and wide-ranging writings of a vitally important nineteenth century cultural figure whose work continues to shape our world today. Seaman, farmer, abolitionist, journalist, administrator, reformer, conservationist, and without question America’s foremost landscape architect and urban planner, Frederick Law Olmsted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library Of America 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712 OLMRybczynski, Witold.
Summary: "In a collaboration between writer and subject, the author of Home and City life illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure and a man at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes - among them, New York's Central Park, California's Stanford University campus, Boston's Back Bay Fens,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 OLMSTED, FREDERICK LAW RybczynskiSummary: "The year 2022 will mark the bicentennial of the birth of Olmsted; a national celebration is being planned by several organizations. This book celebrates 200 of the more than 6,000 landscapes that he and his successors created, many of which are extant, kept up, open to the public, and beloved as major cultural sites. Olmsted designed many of America's most beloved parks and landscapes during...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Timber Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 712.0973 EXPPetersen, Eugene T.
Contents: Peterson, E.T. Introduction.--Head, F.H.A notable lawsuit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Hotel 1977
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1 available in Nelson Room, Call number: NEL RM 977.4 PETDrabelle, Dennis
Summary: "The Power of Scenery tells the story of how America's national parks came to be, with Frederick Law Olmsted's insights and energy serving to link three jewels: Yosemite National Park, Yellowstone National Park, and Niagara Falls State Park"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.6 DRAMartin, Justin.
Summary: Describes the life of the landscape architect responsible for New York's Central Park and Boston's Emerald Necklace including his lesser-known time spent as an influential journalist, early voice for the environment and abolitionist, all overshadowed by a tragic personal life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Da Capo Press 2011