Frederick Olmsted
Frederick Olmsted
Frederick Law Olmstedwas an American landscape architect, journalist, social critic, and public administrator. He is popularly considered to be the father of American landscape architecture. Olmsted was famous for co-designing many well-known urban parks with his senior partner Calvert Vaux, including Central Park in New York City and Elm Park in Worcester, Massachusetts, considered by many to be the first municipal park in America...
ProfessionEngineer
Date of Birth26 April 1822
CityHartford, CT
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I saw, for the first time in my life, two or three young white women smoking tobacco in clay pipes. From their manner it was evidently a well-formed habit, and one which they did not suspect there was occasion for them to practice clandestinely, or be ashamed of.