A Selected List of Olmsted Projects

FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED AND CALVERT VAUX

1858–76	Central Park, New York, N.Y.
1860–74	Hartford Retreat for the Insane, Hartford, Conn.
1865	College of California, Berkeley, Calif.
1866	Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Washington, D.C.
1865–95	Prospect Park, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1867	Seaside Park, Bridgeport, Conn.
1867–73	Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
1867–86	Fort Greene Park, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1868	Parade Ground, King’s County, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1868	Tompkins Park, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1868–74	Eastern and Ocean Parkways, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1868–87	Riverside residential community, Ill.
1868–89	Riverside Park, New York, N.Y.
1868–1915	Delaware Park, The Parade, and The Front, Buffalo, N.Y.
1869–71	Walnut Hill Park, New Britain, Conn.
1870–72	Tarrytown Heights residential community, N.Y.
1870–95	South Park, Chicago, Ill.
1870–1914	South Park, Fall River, Mass.
1870–1920	Downing Park, Newburgh, N.Y.
1871	New York State Asylum for the Insane, Buffalo, N.Y.
1876–89	Morningside Park, New York, N.Y.
1879–95	State Reservation at Niagara Falls, N.Y.

FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED

1864–65	Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, Calif.
1865–67	San Francisco Public Grounds, Calif.
1870–88	Staten Island Improvement Commission, Staten Island, N.Y.
1872–75	McLean Asylum grounds, Waverley, Mass.
1872–86	Parkside subdivision, Buffalo, N.Y.
1872–94	Trinity College, Hartford, Conn.
1873–93	Mount Royal Park, Montreal, Canada
1873	Tacoma Land Company, Tacoma, Wash.
1874–81	Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
1875–78	Twenty-Third & Twenty-Fourth Wards, New York, N.Y.
1875–94	U.S. Capitol grounds, Washington, D.C.
1878–1920	Back Bay Fens, Boston, Mass.
1879–97	Arnold Arboretum, Boston, Mass.
1880–93	Muddy River Improvement, Boston, Mass.
1881–84	Bridgeport Parks, Bridgeport, Conn.
1881–1895	Belle Isle, Detroit, Mich.
1881–1921	Franklin Park, Boston, Mass.
1883–1901	Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, N.J.

FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED WITH JOHN CHARLES OLMSTED AND HENRY SARGENT CODMAN (+1893)

1884–92	Brookline Hill subdivision, Brookline, Mass.
1886–1914	Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.
1886–90	Planter’s Hill and World’s End subdivision, Hingham, Mass.
1887–96	Wilmington Parks, Wilmington, Del.
1888–93	World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill.
1890–95	Essex County Parks, Essex County, N.J.
1890–1906	National Zoological Park, Washington, D.C.
1890–1912	Genesee Valley Park, Rochester, N.Y.
1891–95	Louisville Parks, Louisville, Ken.
1891–1909	Biltmore Estate, Asheville, N.C.
1891–1909	Smith College, Northampton, Mass.
1892–94	Bloomingdale Asylum, White Plains, N.Y.
1892–1905	Druid Hills residential community, Atlanta, Ga.
1893–1895	Wood Island Park, Boston, Mass.

CHARLES ELIOT (+1897), JOHN CHARLES OLMSTED (+1920), AND FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED JR.

1895–99	Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.
1895–1912	Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Canada
1895–1927	Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Penn.
1896–1922	Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.
1896–1932	Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
1897–1914	Roland Park, Baltimore, Md.
1897–1924	Audubon Park, New Orleans, La.
1900–06	Brown University, Providence, R.I.
1901–1910	University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.
1901–1930	Seattle Parks, Seattle, Wash.
1902–12	Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
1902–20	University of Washington, Seattle, Wash.
1903	Lewis and Clark Exposition, Portland, Oreg.
1903–19	Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
1904–05	Portland Parks, Portland, Me.
1906–08	Spokane Parks, Spokane, Wash.
1907–21	New Haven Improvement Commission, New Haven, Conn.
1908–25	Boulder Improvement Association, Boulder, Co.
1909	Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, Wash.
1909–12	Battery Park, Charleston, S.C.
1909–31	Forest Hills Gardens residential community, Queens, N.Y.
1909–31	Pittsburgh Civic Commission, Pittsburgh, Penn.
1910–11	Dayton Parks, Dayton, Oh.
1911	San Diego Exposition, San Diego, Calif.
1912–13	Newport City Improvement, Newport, R.I.
1914–31	Rancho Palos Verdes residential community, Palos Verdes, Calif.
1925–26	Philadelphia Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia, Penn.
1925–31	Harvard Business School, Cambridge, Mass.
1925–32	Haverford College, Haverford, Penn.
1925–65	Duke University, Durham, N.C.
1927–35	Fort Tryon Park, New York, N.Y.
1929–32	Notre Dame University, South Bend, Ind.
1932–33	Morris Arboretum, Philadelphia, Penn.

According to the invaluable The Master List of Design Projects of the Olmsted Firm 1857–1950 (Boston: Massachusetts Association for Olmsted Parks, 1987), “between 1857 and 1950 the firm participated in some way in 5,500 projects.”