Genius of Place (71 page)
Authors: Justin Martin
393
“I can't think that you”:
FLO to partners, August 31, 1895, Loeb Library.
“I can't think that you”:
FLO to partners, August 31, 1895, Loeb Library.
393
“It would help us very much”:
JCO to FLO, September 2, 1895.
“It would help us very much”:
JCO to FLO, September 2, 1895.
393
“In my flurry”:
FLO to Charles Eliot, September 26, 1895, Loeb Library.
“In my flurry”:
FLO to Charles Eliot, September 26, 1895, Loeb Library.
394
“in a dreadful state”:
MPO to JCO, September 27, 1895.
“in a dreadful state”:
MPO to JCO, September 27, 1895.
394
“I am lying awake nights”:
FLO to FLO Jr., July 11 or August 11 [unclear], 1895.
“I am lying awake nights”:
FLO to FLO Jr., July 11 or August 11 [unclear], 1895.
394
“Observe, inquire, read”:
FLO to FLO Jr., [date unclear but appears to be autumn 1895].
“Observe, inquire, read”:
FLO to FLO Jr., [date unclear but appears to be autumn 1895].
394
“I write only in yielding”:
FLO to FLO Jr., October 15, 1895.
“I write only in yielding”:
FLO to FLO Jr., October 15, 1895.
394
“I am thinking more”:
FLO to FLO Jr., October 14, 1895.
“I am thinking more”:
FLO to FLO Jr., October 14, 1895.
395
“You cannot think how much”:
FLO to FLO Jr., October 1895 [no day specified in letter].
“You cannot think how much”:
FLO to FLO Jr., October 1895 [no day specified in letter].
396
“I am going down hill rapidly”:
FLO to JCO, December 12, 1895, Loeb Library.
“I am going down hill rapidly”:
FLO to JCO, December 12, 1895, Loeb Library.
396
His wife had died:
Francis Kowsky,
Country, Park, and City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 312.
His wife had died:
Francis Kowsky,
Country, Park, and City: The Architecture and Life of Calvert Vaux
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1998), 312.
396
a man told the
Brooklyn Eagle
:
Brooklyn Eagle
, November 21, 1895.
a man told the
Brooklyn Eagle
:
Brooklyn Eagle
, November 21, 1895.
397
“I am quite equal”:
MPO to “my dear boys,” April 22, 1896.
“I am quite equal”:
MPO to “my dear boys,” April 22, 1896.
397
In a separate letter:
Marion Olmsted to JCO and FLO Jr., March 31, 1896.
In a separate letter:
Marion Olmsted to JCO and FLO Jr., March 31, 1896.
397
Then Mary traveled to the Continent:
MPO to JCO, April 10, 1896.
Then Mary traveled to the Continent:
MPO to JCO, April 10, 1896.
398
“They didn't carry”:
Laura Wood Roper,
FLO: A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973), 474.
“They didn't carry”:
Laura Wood Roper,
FLO: A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973), 474.
398
“I said you could”:
JCO to FLO Jr., December 15, 1897, Loeb Library.
Chapter 32: Fade“I said you could”:
JCO to FLO Jr., December 15, 1897, Loeb Library.
399
At two o'clock in the morning on August 28, 1903:
Theodora Kimball timeline, Library of Congress.
At two o'clock in the morning on August 28, 1903:
Theodora Kimball timeline, Library of Congress.
399
Three days later:
A small funeral service was held at Fairsted; it appears that Mary Olmsted attended this service but not the interment of Olmsted's ashes at the Old North Cemetery in Hartford. See JCO to Sophia White Olmsted, September 8, 1903, Loeb Library.
Epilogue: Olmsted's Wild GardenThree days later:
A small funeral service was held at Fairsted; it appears that Mary Olmsted attended this service but not the interment of Olmsted's ashes at the Old North Cemetery in Hartford. See JCO to Sophia White Olmsted, September 8, 1903, Loeb Library.
401
Much of its business involved circling back around:
Detail based on interviews with a number of current caretakers of Olmsted green spaces, including April 2, 2010, JM with Barbara Smith and Dennis Evanosky, docents, Mountain View Cemetery.
Much of its business involved circling back around:
Detail based on interviews with a number of current caretakers of Olmsted green spaces, including April 2, 2010, JM with Barbara Smith and Dennis Evanosky, docents, Mountain View Cemetery.
402
Rick also served alongside Daniel Burnham:
Interview on July 12, 2010, JM with Steve Livengood, chief guide, U.S. Capitol Historical Society.
Rick also served alongside Daniel Burnham:
Interview on July 12, 2010, JM with Steve Livengood, chief guide, U.S. Capitol Historical Society.
402
“one of the finest planned communities ever”:
Susan Klaus,
A Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens
(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002), back cover.
“one of the finest planned communities ever”:
Susan Klaus,
A Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. and the Plan for Forest Hills Gardens
(Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002), back cover.
402
contributions of an Olmsted sister:
Details about Marion Olmsted's role in the firm drawn from interview on June 22, 2010, JM with Alan Banks, supervisory ranger, Fairsted, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site.
contributions of an Olmsted sister:
Details about Marion Olmsted's role in the firm drawn from interview on June 22, 2010, JM with Alan Banks, supervisory ranger, Fairsted, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site.
403
all the way to 2000:
Details about Olmsted firm after no Olmsteds involved from ibid.
all the way to 2000:
Details about Olmsted firm after no Olmsteds involved from ibid.
403
“With my work”:
Interview on December 2, 2010, JM with Peter Walker, founder of PWP Landscape Architecture.
“With my work”:
Interview on December 2, 2010, JM with Peter Walker, founder of PWP Landscape Architecture.
404
“the nearest thing posterity”:
FLO,
The Cotton Kingdom
(New York: Da Capo Press, 1996), ix.
“the nearest thing posterity”:
FLO,
The Cotton Kingdom
(New York: Da Capo Press, 1996), ix.
INDEX
Note: In subheadings, references to Frederick FLO; subheadings referring to Frederick Law name Rick.
Abbott, James
Abolitionist, FLO as
FLO's initial gradualist stance on slavery
FLO's opposition to slavery on economic grounds
FLO's view that slavery causes cultural stagnation
Contrast provided by Texas German free-soilers
FLO's aid to Kansas free-soilers
FLO's abolitionist stance stiffens
FLO's reaction to Emancipation Proclamation
Across the Continent
(Bowles)
(Bowles)
Ahwahneechee Indians
Akerly, Samuel
Allison, Samuel
Alphand, Jean-Charles Adolphe
Alzheimer's or some other form of senile dementia afflicts FLO
American Association for the Relief of the Misery of Battlefields (AARMB)
American Freedmen's Aid Union
American Institute of Architects
American Red Cross (Olmsted's USSC as forerunner)
The American Spelling Book
(Webster)
(Webster)
Anderson, Robert
Law Olmsted are shown with the initials Olmsted Jr. “Rick” are shown with the
Arboretums
Biltmore Estate (proposed)
Boston's Arnold Arboretum
Stanford University (proposed)
Architecture (structures vs. landscape)
of Biltmore mansion
for buildings at Chicago World's Fair
Downing and Vaux collaborations
Richardson and FLO collaborations
See also under
names of specific architects
names of specific architects
Arendt, Hannah
Aristotle
Arnold Arboretum, Boston
Arthur, Chester
Ashburner, William
Asheville, North Carolina
Atlanta, Georgia.
See
Druid Hills
See
Druid Hills
Atlantic
magazine
magazine
Bache, Alexander
Back Bay Fens (park), Boston
Baldwin, Elizabeth
Barnum, P. T.
“Bartleby the Scrivener” novella (Melville)
Barton, Clara
Barton, F. A.
Baseball games in Central Park
Beadle, Chauncey
Bear Valley, California
Beck, James
Beecher, Henry Ward
Beecher Bibles (Sharps rifles)
Belle Isle park, Detroit
Bellows, Henry
as USSC creator, administrator
relationship with FLO
founds AARMB
supports Geneva treaty
death
Belmont, August
“Benito Cereno” story (Melville)
Benkard and Hutton importer
Bennett, James Gordon
Bentham and Hooker classification system
Bierce, Ambrose
Bierstadt, Albert
Biltmore Estate, Asheville, North Carolina
design of mansion by Hunt
landscape design by FLO
Rick serves as apprentice on project
naming of estate
See also
Forest management
Forest management
Birge, George
Birkenhead Park, Liverpool, England
Blackwood's Magazine
Bleeding Kansas
Bois de Boulogne, Paris
Boone and Crockett Club
Boston, Massachusetts
Arnold Arboretum
Back Bay Fens
Franklin Park
park commissions
park system (Emerald Necklace)
Boulder, Colorado
Bow Bridge in Central Park
Bowles, Samuel
Brace, Charles Loring “Charley”
background and youth
as abolitionist
as author
Children's Aid Society founder
hires Vaux for children's housing
imprisoned in Hungary
marriage and family
as USSC inspector during Civil War
death
Brace, Joab
Brady, Mathew
Bridge designs (FLO parks)
Bright, Edward
Bright's disease
British Sanitary Commission
Brookline, Massachusetts (FLO's home).
See
Fairsted
See
Fairsted
Brooklyn park.
See
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
See
Prospect Park, Brooklyn
Brooks, David
BrooksâSumner incident in U.S. Congress
Bryant, William Cullen
Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
Buena Vista Vinicultural Society
Buffalo park system, New York
Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane, New York
Bull, Mary Ann.
See
Olmsted, Mary Ann
See
Olmsted, Mary Ann
Burnham, Daniel
as Chicago World's Fair director
gives tribute honoring FLO
on McMillan Commission
Burritt, Elihu
Bushnell, Horace
Butler, Benjamin
Butler, John
Capital
(
Das Kapital
, Marx)
(
Das Kapital
, Marx)
Capitol project, Washington, D.C.
See
U.S. Capitol building and landscaping
See
U.S. Capitol building and landscaping
Carl (pseudonym for F. L. Olmsted)
Carl of Solms-Braunfels (prince of Germany)
Carlyle, Thomas
Carson, Kit
Cat, FLO's named Minna
Central Park, New York
background and early history of park
FLO as park superintendent
park design competition.
See also
Greensward Plan
See also
Greensward Plan
administration and policing
features
FLO's battles with Andrew Green over money
FLO and Vaux ongoing role with park
FLO's special passion for the park
damaged by Tammany Hall
Vaux's complaint that he's denied credit for park
FLO ousted
tribute to FLO's design
See also park features:
Bow Bridge, the Dairy, the Lake, Pavilion, the Ramble, Sheep's Meadow
Bow Bridge, the Dairy, the Lake, Pavilion, the Ramble, Sheep's Meadow
Chase, Salmon
Chicago Great Fire (1871)
Chicago park system
original 1871 design
Jackson Park
Midway Plaisance
Washington Park
See also
World's Fair of 1893
World's Fair of 1893
Children's Aid Society
Childs, Emery
China voyage (FLO's)
Chirk Castle in Wales
Cholera
Church, Frederic
Civil War (1861â1865)
as viewed in England
camp conditions reported by USSC
end of slavery demanded in Emancipation Proclamation
medical relief by USSC, hospital ships
final stages
See also
United States Sanitary Commission
United States Sanitary Commission
Civil War Battles (and USSC's relief efforts)
Antietam
Bull Run
Fair Oaks
Gettysburg
Vicksburg campaign
Williamsburg
Clark, Abby
Clark, Galen
Cleveland, Grover
Cleveland, Horace W. S.
Codman, Henry
as FLO's apprentice
and Stanford University project
as partner of F. L. Olmsted and Company
role in World's Fair project
death
Codman, Philip
Colfax, Schuyler
College of California
Columbian Exposition.
See
World's Fair of 1893
See
World's Fair of 1893
Commissioner of contrabands
Common spaces as design concept
Commonwealth Avenue, Boston
“Communitiveness,”
Compromise of 1850,
Concerts in Central Park
Condit, Frances
Confederacy
effects of Emancipation Proclamation
scrip and war bonds
Congregationalist church
Conness, John
Conservation of natural places.
See
Environmentalism
See
Environmentalism
Constitution
steamship
steamship
Contoit's New York Garden, New York
Cook, Clarence
Cook, Sarah
Coolidge, Charles
Coon, Henry
Cornell, Alonzo
Cottingham, Lewis
The Cotton Kingdom
(F. L. Olmsted)
(F. L. Olmsted)
helps shift Britain's support to Union
Croquet mania (Prospect Park, New York City)
The Cultivation and Management of Our Native Forests . . .
(H. W. S. Cleveland)
(H. W. S. Cleveland)
Culture
Downing as critic
of Gullahs of Port Royal plantations
insecurities of Americans
poverty of South/primacy of North
of Texan Germans
Culyer, John
Curtis, George
Dairy, Central Park
Dalton, Charles
Dame schools
Dana, Charles
Dana, Richard Henry, Jr.
Daniel Webster
hospital ship
hospital ship
Darwin, Charles
Darwin, Emma
David Parker and Company
Davis, Alexander Jackson
Davis, Henry
Davis, Jefferson
Davis, Mrs. (Henry's wife)
Day, Ellen
Day, Mary
Deer Isle, Maine
Defoe, Daniel
Degener, Edouard
Delano, Sara
Delaware Park.
See
Buffalo park system, New York
See
Buffalo park system, New York
Democratic equality of people.
See
Egalitarianism
and
Social reform and social vision
See
Egalitarianism
and
Social reform and social vision
Dennett, J. R.
Denver, Colorado
Detroit, Michigan
Dickens, Charles
Dillon, Robert
Dix, Edwards & Company
Dix, Joshua
Dodworth, Harvey
Dogs (FLO's companions)
Neptune
Judy
Dombey and Son
(Dickens)
(Dickens)
Domes of Yosemite
painting (Bierstadt)
painting (Bierstadt)
Donkeys (Fanny, Kitty, and Beppo, ridden by FLO's children)
Dorsheimer, William
Douai, Adolph
Douglas, Stephen
Downing, Andrew Jackson as 19th century taste-maker
calls for a New York City park
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