Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903)

Fabos, Julius G., et al. Frederick Law Olmsted. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1968.

McLaughlin, Charles S., and Beveridge, Charles, eds. The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: Vol. I, The Formative Years, 1822-1852. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Uni­versity Press, 1977.

Mitchell, Broadus. Frederick Law Olmsted: Critic of the Old South. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1924.

Olmsted, F. L., Jr., and Kimball, Theodore, eds. Frederick Law Olmsted: Landscape Architect, 1822-1903: Forty Years of Landscape Architecture: The Professional Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted. Vol. I is Early Years and Experiences and Vol. II is Ar­chitecture: Central Park. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1922 and 1928; re­printed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 1973.

Roper, Laura Wood. FLO: A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973. There is some Connecticut material in the early chapters—insights into Olmsted's childhood and youth—but not a lot.

Stevenson, Elizabeth. Park Maker: A Life of Frederick Law Olmsted. New York: Macmillan, 1977. An exhaustive study by an academic. Two chapters deal with Connecticut origins.

 

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