page_title: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
section_title: Projects
hierarchical_section_title: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. / Projects
caption_attribution_description: English: Casa Grande National Monument
context_page_description: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. was an American landscape architect and city planner known for his wildlife conservation efforts. He had a lifetime commitment to national parks, and worked on projects in Acadia, the Everglades and Yosemite National Park. He gained national recognition by filling in for his father on the Park Improvement Commission for the District of Columbia beginning in 1901, and by contributing to the famous McMillan Commission Plan for redesigning Washington according to a revised version of the original L’Enfant plan. Olmsted Point in Yosemite and Olmsted Island at Great Falls of the Potomac River in Maryland are named after him.
  The son of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., he and his older half-brother John C. Olmsted created Olmsted Brothers about 1896 as a successor firm to their father's firm. They had both worked with him before his retirement. Soon after his father's death, Olmsted stopped using the suffix "Jr." Works attributed to Frederick Law Olmsted after about 1896 are those of this son.
context_section_description: Landscape design at Waveny Park, New Canaan, Connecticut, 1912.
  Shelter at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, 1932
  St. Francis Wood residential neighborhood located in southwestern San Francisco, California, c. 1914
  Fort Tryon Park, New York City, 1917–1935
  Caracas Country Club, Caracas, Venezuela, mid-1920s
  Palos Verdes Estates, Los Angeles County, mid-1930s
  Governor Francis Farms neighborhood founded in 1838 in Warwick, Rhode Island.  He designed many of the homes in that neighborhood in 1949.
caption: Olmsted-designed shelter at Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
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