Frederick Law Olmsted: Founder of Landscape Architecture, co-designer of NY’s Central and Prospect Parks, co-founder of The Nation, designer of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, Cornell University, Stanford, Berkley, and Yale campuses, plus Man of Sanitation and Handlebar Mustaches.
“An artist, he paints with lakes and wooded slopes; with lawns and banks and forest covered hills; with mountain sides and ocean views.” — Daniel Burnham
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