A historic overview of the parks the Olmsted companies created in New Jersey primarily for the county park commissions in Essex, Union, and Passaic counties. Son and stepson of the creator of New Yorks Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and John Charles Olmsted, continued with their fathers naturalistic style of landscape architecture, with 20th-century modifications, into the 1960s. Illustrated with more than 200 historic and contemporary photographs, vintage postcards, and Olmsted sketches and plans, this survey ...
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A historic overview of the parks the Olmsted companies created in New Jersey primarily for the county park commissions in Essex, Union, and Passaic counties. Son and stepson of the creator of New Yorks Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and John Charles Olmsted, continued with their fathers naturalistic style of landscape architecture, with 20th-century modifications, into the 1960s. Illustrated with more than 200 historic and contemporary photographs, vintage postcards, and Olmsted sketches and plans, this survey chronologically details the development of each park or reservation as it was transformed from former farmland, swamp, forest, or a previous park. Included are the gems of Branch Brook Park in Newark, Cadwalader Park in Trenton, Warinanco Park in Roselle, and Brookdale Park in Montclair and Bloomfield. Discover the Olmsted legacy in some of the most magnificent public parks in New Jersey
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Fine in fine jacket. First printing. Oversized in glossy, color illustrated hardcovers. A fine, freshj, unused copy oin equally fine dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers. 176 pp. with bibliography, index. Beautifully illustrated throughout with full color photographs, black and white inages, and reproductions. Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best known as the architect an designer (along with Calvert Vaux) of New York's Central Park and is considered to be the "Father of American Landscape Architecture". The company he founded was the preemient landscape and planning consulting firm of the late 19th century and was continued after his death by his sons Frederick, Jr. and John C. under the name Olmsted Brothers. This lovely volume surveys the the Olmsted-designed parks and reservations of New Jersey that were built from the late 19th (Cadwallader Park in Trenton) to as late as the 1960s. The book mchronicles the development from former farmland, swamp, or a previous park into beautiful new venues such as Brand Brook Park in Newark, Warinanco Park in Roselle, and Brookdale Park on Montclair. In all soem 40 Olmsted parks are covered.
