The Master List of Design Projects of the Olmsted Firm 1857-1979

The Master List of Design Projects of the Olmsted Firm 1857-1979 is the comprehensive guide to the work of the firm, whose founder, Frederick Law Olmsted, was the principal creator of the profession of landscape architecture in America. The firm created memorable places, public and private, where millions of people still live, work and play. This second edition, expanded to more than 6,000 projects, includes new research, illustrations and illuminating essays. It demonstrates the importance of the Olmsted firm, and is an inspiring and invaluable tool for individuals and communities. This is the only publication to categorize all of the Olmsted firm’s design projects so that the scale, type and geographic diversity of the work can be quickly and easily understood.

Lucy Lawliss, ASLA, is a cultural resources manager for the National Park Service and has written several award-winning historical landscape publications including Olmsted in Georgia: The Residential Work of the Olmsted Firm 1895-1937. A board member of the National Association for Olmsted Parks, Ms. Lawliss served as the organization’s co-chair from 2002-2005. Ms. Lawliss holds undergraduate and master’s degrees in landscape architecture with a certificate in historic preservation from the University of Georgia and is a registered landscape architect. Caroline Loughlin is the co-author of Forest Park, a history of a major park in St. Louis. She is a board member of the National Association for Olmsted Parks, which she has served as secretary, treasurer and co-chair and continues to serve on the steering committee for the Olmsted Research Guide Online. She was a founding board member of Forest Park Forever, which she served as president, and of the Friends of Fairsted, of which she is the treasurer. She volunteers at Mount Auburn Cemetery, where she co-chaired the 175th anniversary committee and is a member of the Steering Committee for the Preservation Initiative.Lauren Meier, ASLA, is a historic preservationist with Pressley Associates in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she oversees a wide variety of historic landscape preservation projects. She holds a bachelor’s degree in botany from Pomona College and a master of landscape architecture from Harvard University. Ms. Meier was the founding coordinator of the National Park Service’s Historic Landscape Initiative in Washington, D.C., and historical landscape architect for the NPS Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation. Her extensive landscape preservation work nationwide includes the restoration of the landscape at Fairsted, Frederick Law Olmsted’s home and office in Brookline, Massachusetts, and many publications devoted to the preservation of historic plant material. She is a board member of the National Association for Olmsted Parks and a former chair of the research committee.