A main node in the Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.–designed park system will be treated to an exhaustive overhaul. Today Boston Mayor Michelle Wu announced the Franklin Park Action Plan, an ...

On a recent hot summer day, a steady beat sounded throughout Dorchester’s Savin Hill park, as several ... 200th birthday of Frederick Olmsted, who designed Boston’s 7-mile-long Emerald ...

The park was the “crown jewel” of Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace, a seven-mile system of urban parks stretching continuously from the Boston Common on one end to Franklin Park on the other.

Olmsted designed three of those first seven ... of green,” which echoes the name for his most famous park system design, Boston’s Emerald Necklace. While Olmsted was not happy with how far ...

THE BIGGEST PARK IN BOSTON, BEST KNOWN FOR ITS ZOO AND PUBLIC GOLF COURSE. FRANKLIN PARK CONNECTS JAMAICA PLAIN ROCK, SEABURY AND DORCHESTER, THE JEWEL OF OLMSTED’S EMERALD NECKLACE. AND SO WE ...

is where Olmsted lived and ran his family business. Franklin Park is the largest park in Boston's Emerald Necklace, best known for its zoo and public golf course. A local organization, the ...