# List of Olmsted works

The landscape architecture firm of Frederick Law Olmsted, and later of his sons John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (known as the Olmsted Brothers), produced designs and plans for hundreds of parks, campuses and other projects throughout the United States and Canada. Together, these works totaled 355.[citation needed] This is a non-exhaustive list of those projects.

## Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.
### Academic campuses

Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. designed numerous school and college campuses between 1857 and 1895. Some of the most famous done while he headed his firm are listed here. Projects continuing past Olmsted's retirement in 1895 were completed by his sons, the Olmsted Brothers.
* American University Main Campus, Washington, D.C.
* Berwick Academy, South Berwick, Maine (1894)
* Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (1885)
* Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (1867–1873)
* Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey
* Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. (1866)
* Groton School, Groton, Massachusetts (1884–1904)
* Lawrenceville School, Lawrenceville, New Jersey (1883–1901)
* Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York
* Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts
* Noble and Greenough School, Dedham, Massachusetts
* Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts (1891–1965)
* Pomfret School, Pomfret, Connecticut
* St. Albans School (Washington, D.C.)
* Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts (1891–1909)
* The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, KY
* Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, Main Quad (1887–1906) and campus master plan (1886–1914)
* Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut (1872–1894)
* University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California, master plan (1865)
* University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
* University of Maine, Orono, Maine
* University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
* Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri (1865–1899)
* Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts
* Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut (1874–1881)

### Selected private and civic designs

By Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.:
| Project | City | State or province | Date |
| Arnold Arboretum | Boston | Massachusetts | 1877 |
| Back Bay Fens, Arborway and Riverway | Boston | Massachusetts | 1890s–1900 |
| Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park | Great River | New York, on Long Island | |
| Beardsley Park | Bridgeport | Connecticut | 1884 |
| Belle Isle Park | Detroit | Michigan | master plan and landscape in the 1880s |
| Biltmore Estate grounds | Asheville | North Carolina | 1890–1895 |
| Brandywine Park | Wilmington | Delaware | 1886 |
| Buffalo, New York parks system | Buffalo | New York | |
| Butler Hospital | Providence | Rhode Island | |
| Buttonwood Park | Buttonwood Park Historic District, New Bedford | Massachusetts | |
| Cadwalader Park | Trenton | New Jersey | |
| Central Park | Manhattan | New York | 1853 (opened in 1856) |
| Cherokee Park | Louisville | Kentucky | |
| Congress Park | Saratoga Springs | New York | |
| Cushing Island | Portland | Maine | |
| D.W. Field Park | Brockton | Massachusetts | |
| Dilworth | Charlotte | North Carolina | |
| Downing Park | Newburgh | New York | |
| Druid Hills Historic District and parks along Ponce de Leon Avenue (Springdale, Virgilee, Druid Hills, Brightwood, Shady Side, Olmsted Linear, Deepdene) | Druid Hills (Atlanta) | Georgia | |
| Eastern Parkway | Brooklyn | New York | |
| Edgewood Park | Westville, New Haven | Connecticut | |
| Elizabeth Park | Hartford & West Hartford | Connecticut | |
| Elmwood Cemetery | Detroit | Michigan | |
| Emerald Necklace | Boston | Massachusetts | |
| Filmore Farm Charles Henry Jones | Weston | Massachusetts | circa 1880 |
| Fine Arts Garden | Cleveland | Ohio | |
| Florham, former estate of Hamilton and Florence (Vanderbilt) Twombly. Now the campus of Fairleigh Dickinson University | Florham Park | New Jersey | |
| Forest Park | Queens | New York | |
| Fort Greene Park | Brooklyn | New York | |
| Franklin Park | Boston | Massachusetts | |
| Genesee Valley Park | Rochester | New York | |
| Glen Magna Farms | Danvers | Massachusetts | |
| Grand Army Plaza | Brooklyn | New York | |
| Highland Park | Rochester | New York | |
| Hubbard Park | Meriden, Connecticut | Connecticut | |
| The Institute of Living | Hartford | Connecticut | 1860s |
| Jackson Park, originally South Park | Chicago | Illinois | |
| John T. Davis house (17 Westmoreland Place) | St. Louis | Missouri | 1892 |
| Lakehurst Gardens | Roches Point | Ontario | ca. 1870 |
| Lake Park | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | |
| Lynn Woods | Lynn | Massachusetts | |
| Manchester Town Common | Manchester | Massachusetts | |
| Manor Park | Larchmont | New York | |
| Masconomo Park | Manchester | Massachusetts | |
| Maplewood Park | Rochester | New York | |
| MIT Endicott House | Dedham | Massachusetts | |
| Montebello Park | St. Catharines | Ontario | |
| Morningside Park | New York City | New York | |
| Mount Royal Park | Montreal | Quebec | inaugurated in 1876 |
| Mountain View Cemetery | Oakland | California | dedicated in 1865 |
| National Zoological Park | Washington | District of Columbia | |
| Nay Aug Park | Scranton | Pennsylvania | |
| New York State Hospital for the Insane | Buffalo | New York | |
| Niagara Reservation (now Niagara Falls State Park) | Niagara Falls | New York | dedicated in 1885 |
| Ocean | Brooklyn | New York | |
| Olmsted Linear Park | Atlanta | Georgia | |
| Oyster Harbors | Osterville | Massachusetts | |
| Piedmont Avenue | Berkeley | California | |
| Roads and green space in central village area of Pinehurst | Pinehurst | North Carolina | ground broken in 1895 |
| Point Chautauqua, a Baptist planned resort community | Point Chautauqua | New York | |
| Prospect Park | Brooklyn | New York | finished 1868 |
| Public Pleasure Grounds | San Francisco | California | |
| River Park (now Riverside Park) | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | |
| Village of Riverside | Riverside | Illinois | |
| Riverside Drive | Manhattan | New York | |
| Riverside Park | Manhattan | New York | |
| The Rockery | Easton | Massachusetts | |
| Ruggles Park | Fall River | Massachusetts | |
| Seaside Park | Bridgeport | Connecticut | 1860s |
| Seneca Park | Rochester | New York | |
| Shelburne Farms | Shelburne | Vermont | |
| Skillman Epilepsy Hospital (subsequently North Princeton Developmental Center) | Montgomery | New Jersey | |
| South Park (now Kennedy Park) | Fall River | Massachusetts | 1868 |
| Stanford University | Palo Alto | California | |
| Sudbrook Park | Baltimore | Maryland | 1889 |
| Olmsted Subdivision Historic District | Swampscott | Massachusetts | |
| United States Capitol grounds | Washington | District of Columbia | |
| Vanderbilt Mausoleum | Staten Island | New York | |
| Walnut Hill Park | New Britain | Connecticut | |
| Washington Park | Chicago | Illinois | circa 1870 (blueprints were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871) |
| West Park Zoological Gardens (now Washington Park) | Milwaukee | Wisconsin | |
| Whitman Town Park | Whitman | Massachusetts | circa 1875 |
| Willow Brook Cemetery | Westport | Connecticut | circa 1881 |
| Woodburn Circle, West Virginia University | Morgantown | West Virginia | |
| Wood Island Park (taken by eminent domain in the 1960s to expand Logan International Airport) | Boston | Massachusetts | |
| World's Columbian Exposition | Chicago | Illinois | 1893 |
| World's End, formerly the John Brewer Estate | Hingham, Massachusetts | Massachusetts | 1889 |

## Olmsted Brothers

After the retirement of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr in 1895, the firm was managed by John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., as Olmsted and Olmsted, Olmsted Olmsted and Eliot, and Olmsted Brothers. Works from this period, which spanned from 1895 to 1950, are often misattributed to Frederick Sr. They include:

### Academic campuses

* Alabama A&M University, Normal, Alabama
* Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (1895–1927)
* Chatham University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
* Denison University, Granville, Ohio (1916)
* Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, Kentucky
* Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee (1929-1933)
* Florence State Teachers College, Florence, Alabama (University of North Alabama)
* Grove City College, Grove City, Pennsylvania (1929)
* Harvard Business School, Allston, Massachusetts (1925–1931)
* Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania (1925–1932)*
* Huntingdon College campus, Montgomery, Alabama
* Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (1929–1936)
* Iowa State University Ames, Iowa (1906)
* Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (1903–1919)
* Lafayette College, Easton, Pennsylvania (1909)
* Lincoln Institute, Lincoln Ridge, Kentucky (1911)
* Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
* Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky (1923)
* Middlesex School, Concord, Massachusetts (1901)
* Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Massachusetts (1896–1922)
* Newton Country Day School, Newton, Massachusetts (1927)
* Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio (1903)
* Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (1909)
* Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon (1909)
* Roslyn High School, Roslyn, New York (1920s)
* Saint Joseph College, West Hartford, Connecticut
* Samford University, Homewood, Alabama
* Stanford University, Stanford, California (1886–1914)
* Troy University, Troy, Alabama
* Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts (1920)
* University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1901–1910)
* University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (1925)
* University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho (1908)
* University of Montevallo, Montevallo, Alabama
* University of Maine, Orono, Maine (1932)
* University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana (1929–1932)
* University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island (1894–1903)
* University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (1902–1920)
* Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York (1896–1932)
* Western Michigan University Main Campus, Kalamazoo, Michigan (1904)
* Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts (1902–1912)

### Selected private and civic designs

By Olmsted and Olmsted, Olmsted Olmsted and Eliot, and Olmsted Brothers:
* Adair Country Inn gardens, Bethlehem, New Hampshire
* Audubon Park, New Orleans, Louisiana
* Ashland Park, residential neighborhood built around Ashland, The Henry Clay Estate in Lexington, Kentucky
* Bloomfield, Villanova, PA. Private house of George McFadden.
* Branch Brook Park, Newark, New Jersey
* The British Properties, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
* Brookdale Park, Bloomfield & Montclair, New Jersey
* Cambridge American Cemetery and Memorial a memorial for American World War II servicemen in Cambridgeshire, near Cambridge, England
* Caracas Country Club (1928), Alta Florida, Capital District, Caracas, Venezuela
* Carroll Park, Baltimore, Maryland
* Cedar Brook Park, Shakespeare Garden, Plainfield, New Jersey
* Cleveland Metroparks System, in the Greater Cleveland area, Ohio
* Craig Colony for Epileptics, Sonyea, New York
* Crocker Field, Fitchburg, Massachusetts
* Deering Oaks, Portland, Maine
* The Gardens at Dey Mansion Washington's Headquarters, Wayne, New Jersey
* Druid Hills, Atlanta, Georgia
* Dunn Gardens, Seattle, Washington
* Eastern Promenade, Portland, Maine
* Elm Bank Horticulture Center, Wellesley, Massachusetts
* Fairmont Park, Riverside, California
* First Presbyterian Church of Far Rockaway, Queens, New York
* Fort Tryon Park, New York City
* Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (originally League Island Park)
* Fresh Pond, Cambridge, Massachusetts
* Garret Mountain Reservation, Woodland Park, New Jersey
* Goffle Brook Park, Hawthorne, New Jersey
* Grover Cleveland Park, Caldwell, New Jersey
* Hermann Dudley Murphy House, Lexington, Massachusetts
* High Point Park, Montague, New Jersey
* High Rock Reservation, a park in Lynn, Massachusetts
* Homelands Neighborhood, Springfield, Massachusetts
* "New" Katonah, Katonah, New York
* Kentucky State Capitol Grounds, Frankfort, Kentucky
* Kohler (Village of), Wisconsin
* Kykuit gardens, Rockefeller family estate, Mount Pleasant (from 1897 but largely revised by later architects)
* Leimert Park Neighborhood, Los Angeles
* Locust Valley Cemetery, Locust Valley, New York
* Metro Parks, Summit County, Ohio
* Manito Park and Botanical Gardens, Spokane, Washington
* Marconi Plaza (originally Oregon Plaza)
* Marquette Park, Chicago, Illinois
* Memorial Park (Jacksonville), Florida
* Memorial Park, Maplewood, New Jersey
* Mill Creek Park, Youngstown, Ohio
* Munsey Park, New York
* North Park, Fall River, Massachusetts, 1901
* Otto Kahn Estate, Cold Spring Hills, New York
* Oldfields-Lilly House and Gardens, a National Historic Landmark, originally Hugh Landon estate (Olmsted job # 6883 1920–1927) , Indianapolis, Indiana
* Passaic County Parks System
* Piedmont Park, Atlanta, Georgia
* Pittsburgh downtown ("industrial district") and thoroughfares , 1909
* Planting Fields, Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York
* Pope Park (Hartford, Connecticut)
* The Portland park plan, Portland, Oregon
* Plan for Los Angeles Region, with Harland Bartholomew & Associates (1930)
* Preakness Valley Park, Wayne, New Jersey
* Prouty Garden, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston This garden is at risk of being destroyed for redevelopment purposes.
* Pulaski Park, Holyoke, Massachusetts
* Rahway River Parkway Union County, New Jersey
* Riverside Park, Hartford, Connecticut
* Rancho Los Alamitos Gardens, Long Beach, California
* Riverbend, Walter J. Kohler Sr. estate grounds, Kohler, Wisconsin
* Seattle Park System
* Southern Boulevard Parkway (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
* South Mountain Reservation, Maplewood, Millburn, South Orange, West Orange, New Jersey
* South Park (now Kennedy Park), Fall River, Massachusetts, 1904
* Spokane, Washington city parks
* Springdale Park, Holyoke, Massachusetts
* Thompson Park and roadways, Watertown, New York
* Union County, New Jersey park system
* Utica, New York Parks and Parkway System (1908–1914)
* Landscape of the Town of Vandergrift, Pennsylvania (1895)
* Verona Park, Verona, New Jersey
* Wade Lagoon, on University Circle, Cleveland
* The garden at Welwyn Preserve, Long Island, New York
* Warinanco Park, Roselle, New Jersey
* Washington State Capitol campus, Olympia, Washington
* Watsessing Park, Bloomfield, New Jersey
* Weasel Brook Park, Clifton, New Jersey
* Weequahic Park, Weequahic section of Newark, New Jersey
* The Highlands Neighborhood, Seattle
* Barberrys, Nelson Doubleday house, Mill Neck, New York (1919–1924)
* "Allgates," Horatio Gates Lloyd house, Coopertown Road, Haverford, Pennsylvania (1911–1915)