Frederick Law Olmsted foresaw the need for the American working class to find respite from the hustle and bustle of what were then gritty, smoke-filled cities. Now, 200 years after his birth, he is celebrated for developing New York’s iconic Central Park and some 500 landscape design projects across the nation.
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An 1850 visit to Birkenhead Park in Liverpool, England, was a lightbulb moment for Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. The man who would become known as the father of landscape architecture