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Olmsted Brothers

Born from the legacy of America’s pioneering park designers, this influential landscape architecture firm helped shape city park systems, campuses, estates, and public spaces across the United States. Its work carried Frederick Law Olmsted’s ideas into the 20th century through projects that blended beauty, planning, and public purpose.

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Report on the New York Botanical Garden

Report on the New York Botanical Garden

by Olmsted Brothers

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Olmsted Brothers was a landscape architecture firm established in 1898 by John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., sons of Frederick Law Olmsted. The firm grew out of the family practice at Fairsted in Brookline, Massachusetts, which is now preserved as the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site.

In the early 20th century, the firm became one of the most important landscape architecture practices in the United States. It worked on park systems, residential communities, campuses, and civic landscapes in cities including Boston, Seattle, and Atlanta, helping extend the Olmsted family’s influence far beyond the famous parks designed by the previous generation.

John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. were also founding figures in the American Society of Landscape Architects, and sources credit them with playing an important role in the creation of the National Park Service. The firm’s long life and wide reach make it a key part of the story of American public space and landscape design.