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., produced designs and plans for hundreds of parks, campuses and other projects throughout the United States and Canada. Together, these works totaled 355. This is a non-exhaustive list of those projects.

Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.

Academic campuses

Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. designed numerous school and college campuses between 1857 and 1895. Some of the most famous done while he headed his firm are listed here.
By Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.:
ProjectCityState or provinceDate
Arnold ArboretumBostonMassachusetts
Back Bay Fens, Arborway and RiverwayBostonMassachusetts
Bayard Cutting Arboretum State ParkGreat RiverNew York, on Long Island
Beardsley ParkBridgeportConnecticut1884
Belle Isle ParkDetroitMichiganmaster plan and landscape in the 1880s
Biltmore Estate groundsAshevilleNorth Carolina1890-1895
Brandywine ParkWilmingtonDelaware1886
Buffalo, New York parks systemBuffaloNew York
Butler HospitalProvidenceRhode Island
Buttonwood ParkNew BedfordMassachusetts
Cadwalader ParkTrentonNew Jersey
Central ParkManhattanNew York1853
Cherokee ParkLouisvilleKentucky
Congress ParkSaratoga SpringsNew York
Cushing IslandMaine
D.W. Field ParkBrocktonMassachusetts
Downing ParkNewburghNew York
Druid HillsGeorgia
Eastern ParkwayBrooklynNew York
Edgewood ParkWestville, New HavenConnecticut
Elizabeth ParkHartford & West HartfordConnecticut
Elmwood CemeteryDetroitMichigan
Emerald NecklaceBostonMassachusetts
Filmore Farm Charles Henry Jonescirca 1880
Fine Arts GardenClevelandOhio
Florham, former estate of Hamilton and Florence Twombly. Now the campus of Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityFlorham ParkNew Jersey
Forest ParkSpringfieldMassachusettsdesigned in 1893
Forest ParkQueensNew York
Fort Greene ParkBrooklynNew York
Franklin ParkBostonMassachusetts
Genesee Valley ParkRochesterNew York
Glen Magna FarmsDanversMassachusetts
Grand Army PlazaBrooklynNew York
Highland ParkRochesterNew York
Hubbard ParkMeriden, ConnecticutConnecticut
The Institute of LivingHartfordConnecticut1860s
Jackson Park, originally South ParkChicagoIllinois
Kykuit Gardens, Rockefeller family estateMount PleasantNew Yorkfrom 1897
Lakehurst GardensRoches PointOntarioca. 1870
Lake ParkMilwaukeeWisconsin
Lynn WoodsLynnMassachusetts
Manchester Town CommonManchesterMassachusetts
Manor ParkLarchmontNew York
Masconomo ParkManchesterMassachusetts
Maplewood ParkRochesterNew York
MIT Endicott HouseDedhamMassachusetts
Montebello ParkSt. CatharinesOntario
Morningside ParkNew York CityNew York
Mount Royal ParkMontrealQuebecinaugurated in 1876
Mountain View CemeteryOaklandCaliforniadedicated in 1865
National Zoological ParkWashingtonDistrict of Columbia
Nay Aug ParkScrantonPennsylvania
New York State Hospital for the InsaneBuffaloNew York
Niagara Reservation Niagara FallsNew Yorkdedicated in 1885
North ParkFall RiverMassachusetts1901
Ocean ParkwayBrooklynNew York
AtlantaGeorgia
Oyster HarborsOstervilleMassachusetts
Piedmont AvenueBerkeleyCalifornia
PinehurstNorth Carolinaground broken in 1895
Point Chautauqua, a Baptist planned resort communityPoint ChautauquaNew York
Prospect ParkBrooklynNew Yorkfinished 1868
Public Pleasure GroundsSan FranciscoCalifornia
River Park MilwaukeeWisconsin
Village of RiversideRiversideIllinois
Riverside DriveManhattanNew York
Riverside ParkManhattanNew York
The RockeryEastonMassachusetts
Ruggles ParkFall RiverMassachusetts
Seaside ParkBridgeportConnecticut1860s
Seneca ParkRochesterNew York
Shelburne FarmsShelburneVermont
Skillman Epilepsy Hospital MontgomeryNew Jersey
South Park Fall RiverMassachusetts1868
Stanford UniversityPalo AltoCalifornia
Sudbrook ParkBaltimoreMaryland1889
Olmsted Subdivision Historic DistrictSwampscottMassachusetts
United States Capitol groundsWashingtonDistrict of Columbia
Town of VandergriftPennsylvania1895
Vanderbilt MausoleumStaten IslandNew York
Walnut Hill ParkNew BritainConnecticut
Washington ParkChicagoIllinoiscirca 1870
West Park Zoological Gardens MilwaukeeWisconsin
Whitman Town ParkWhitmanMassachusettscirca 1875
Willow Brook CemeteryWestportConnecticutcirca 1881
Woodburn Circle, West Virginia UniversityMorgantownWest Virginia
Wood Island Park BostonMassachusetts
World's Columbian ExpositionChicagoIllinois1893
World's End, formerly the John Brewer EstateHingham, MassachusettsMassachusetts1889

Olmsted Brothers

After the retirement of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr in 1895, the firm was managed by John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., as Olmsted and Olmsted, Olmsted Olmsted and Eliot, and Olmsted Brothers. Works from this period, which spanned from 1895 to 1950, are often misattributed to Frederick Sr. They include:

Academic campuses

By Olmsted and Olmsted, Olmsted Olmsted and Eliot, and Olmsted Brothers: