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Prospect Park Plaza
No full textGrand Army Plaza, Memorial Arch, view though the arch; Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York is an 11-acre (4.4 hectare) oval plaza that forms the main entrance to Prospect Park. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux in 1867. It consists of concentric rings arranged as streets, with the outer ring being named Plaza Street. Originally known as Prospect Park Plaza, but renamed in 1926, it is perhaps best known for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch, Brooklyn's version of the Arc de Triomphe. It is also the site of the Bailey Fountain, and a monument to John F. Kennedy, as well as statues of Civil War generals Gouverneur Kemble Warren and Henry Warner Slocum, along with busts of notable Brooklyn citizens Alexander J.C. Skene and Henry W. Maxwell. Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (accessed 2/9/2008
Prospect Park
No full textSerpentine paths leading into the Ravine, looking north; Olmsted returned to New York in 1865 to join Calvert Vaux in designing Prospect Park (1865-1873) in Brooklyn. The Long Meadow at Prospect Park is the best example of Olmsted's use of his Pastoral manner, which was the most important style for him. He had experienced the style in its purest and most powerful form in his tours of the parks of estates in the British Isles. The graceful undulation of the terrain invited movement through it, producing a sense of enlarged freedom. With its seemingly unbounded undulating terrain, pools and groups of trees, Pastoral landscape, Olmsted believed, served as a specific antidote to the congestion, noise and artificiality of the city. Olmsted was convinced that the appeal of Pastoral landscape was not simply a passing fashion: rather, it appealed to the 'common and elementary impulses of all classes of mankind'. In terrain too steep for Pastoral treatment, Olmsted provided a contrasting experience by employing the Picturesque style. He used a great variety of plant materials, creating a layering of textures. The effect he sought was one of richness and profusion, combined with a sense of mystery produced by dark shadows under scintillating, sunlit foliage. He had experienced this landscape most intensely at the edge of the rainforest in Panama. Source: Grove Art Online; http://www.groveart.com/ (accessed 2/8/2008
Frederic E. Church House
No full textgeneral view, view of site grounds, 1984720 State Route 9G, Hudson, NY 1253
Plan of a Village Adapted to the Requirements of the Industrial College of the State of Maine
No full textPlan of a village adapted to the requirements of the industrial college of the state of Maine; accommodated to existing houses and rights of way, and with an adjustment of the present High Road passing through the Property of the College on Stillwater River. Olmsted, Vaux & Co., landscape architects, May 1st, 1867. The map includes three scales and profiles of the landscape. A compass indicates the orientation to north. Map scale: 1:1,200. Map size: 83 x 119 cm
Frederick L. Olmsted (1822-1903) is considered to the father of American landscape architecture and protégé of British-American architect, Calvert Vaux (1824-1895). Olmsted and Vaux are famous for co-designing a number of urban parks including Central Park in New York and Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mainebicentennial/1026/thumbnail.jp
Central Park
No full textgeneral view, topiary, people on bench, flowers in Conservatory Summer Garden, 200
Central Park
No full textgeneral view, pedestrian bridge over one of the bridle paths in central park, 200
Central Park
No full textgeneral view, planting of flowers along the edge of the Conservatory Summer Garden, 200
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