An aerial view of Camillien-Houde Way. Frederick Law Olmsted worked on Mount Royal from 1874 to 1877, and more than 100 letters remain concerning the project, writes Anne Neal Petri, president and ...

"I have no idea what it would be." The City of Montreal enlisted Olmsted to design a plan for its new Mount Royal Park in 1872, according to a city-commissioned 2018 study of the site written by ...

Frederick Law Olmsted, the prominent American landscape architect who designed Mount Royal Park, wanted visitors to take their time. “There were those who would have thought it a triumph of art ...

Montreal’s sprawling and picturesque Mount Royal Park is part of a new digital guide created to celebrate the legacy of its designer Frederick Law Olmsted. The noted landscape architect is being ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. You don't really expect to find peace and quiet in the middle of a city, especially not one buzzing with bike bells, music festivals, and ...

where Montreal’s Mount Royal Park also got some of the Olmsted treatment. Or you may take a hint from its title and experience the book at your leisure, lingering wherever your mood takes you ...

The $90-million plan will involve planting thousands of trees and restore Mount Royal to its vocation as the urban park envisioned by its creator, Frederick Law Olmsted, who also designed New York ...

But the professor suggested that ideal was at odds with the park’s exclusive location, as well as the desires of the local bourgeoisie, who used Mount Royal’s Olmsted-designed carriage paths ...

Montreal plans to fundamentally alter its lush, mountain playground. The decision to close one of two roads up Mount Royal Park is the latest twist in a century-old debate over how to balance ...