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At 8pm eastern on american History Tv. 2022 marks the bicentennial of the birth of Frederick Law olmstead the Landscape Architect who designed many of the most notable urban parks in the United States over 100 years from the 1850s to about 1960. He and then the olmstead firm. He founded completed thousands of landscape projects next Landscape Architect. Lori olin tells the story of Frederick Law Olmsteds Career and the work of the olmsted firm culminating in a discussion of the creation and current status of Fdr Park in philadelphia. The pennsylvania horticultural society provided the video and cohosted this event with a national association for olmsted parks as part of olmsted 200 a wideranging bicentennial initiative. Hi, im Nicole Jenny rhodes hi, laurie. Good to see you nice to soon and i cant see everyone else. But thank you so much for being here. Im the director of Audience Engagement at the pennsylvania horticultural society and we are so excited to tonight learn about the move
Olmstead-parkIllinoisUnited-statesParisFrance-general-FranceBrooklynNew-yorkFairmont-parkMaineDelano-parkDelawareJennifer ott is the author of olmstead in seattle creating a Park System for a modern city. She discusses the work of the olmstead brothers in seattle around the turn of the 20th century. The brothers were the sons of Frederick Law Olmstead noted Landscape Architect who designed, new york central park the national association for olmsted parks hosted the event and provided the video. All of the things just fell into place there was finally funding and so i am going to tell you the story of how we took that luck and turned it into a Park System. So the first is this very it looks so dainty because they they colorize the picture but this was the Rough And Tumble seattle if its first few decades lots of dirt streets. I did you notice the angled streets. There was lots of confusion about how to do the Street System around the bay that took quite some time to sort out and still is not entirely sorted out and it was a city that was a long ways from anything not served by railroads in the ear
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