Today, Olmsted is known as the father of landscape architecture, a pioneer who created some of the nation’s most beautiful green spaces—most famously Central Park and Prospect Park ...

On Wednesday, Manhattan’s top socialites and a slew of stars put on their fanciest fascinators for the Central Park Conservancy’s Women’s Committee Frederick Law Olmsted Awards Luncheon — ...

Olmsted’s statement contextualizes the kind of committed prescience for which the definitive designer of many outstanding urban parklands of the United States — including Central Park in New ...

Central Park designer Frederick Law Olmsted envisioned the space as a democratic refuge for all New Yorkers that would foster “a sense of enlarged freedom” and provide a place to escape the ...

Central Park Conservancy Frederick Law Olmsted Awards Luncheon has become known as “the Hat Lunch” or “that Hat Lunch.” ...

Olmsted’s best ideas were often simple ones: the sunken crossroads of Central Park that help visitors forget the noisy city around them, the meandering trails at Niagara Falls that feature ...

Frederick Law Olmsted designed parks that include Central Park in New York City. When Layla George took the helm of the Olmsted Parks Conservancy seven years ago, she set out to learn what she cou ...

“So today we are fulfilling Olmsted and Vaux's original vision for a great democratic space in a bold new way,” Central Park Conservancy President Betsy Smith said at a ribbon-cutting ceremony ...

Frederick Law Olmsted, most famous for designing New York's Central Park, also designed a system of parks for Louisville. Olmsted's Louisville parks were designed to incorporate the city's diverse ...

"They feel that they're in Central Park and have all the benefits of being in a natural environment." In homage to Olmsted's original design, a major feature daylights a waterway and highlights ...