Manuscript/Mixed Material Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., 1884-1894
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Image 1 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … Frederick Law Olmsted SUBJECT FILE City and Regional Planning Brookline Mass 188494
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 2 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … V 12 Brookline Goddard Boston Feby 1 1884 Fred L Olmstead Esq Dear Sir Will you please examine the plans of the Bery Goddard Estate in Brookline and give a sketch of…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 3 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … both Estates that your sketch should consider the two as one for the purpose of planning tho they have different owners I understand your charges to be 5 per acre which I…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 4 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … V from Miss Bullard Office of the Selectmen Brookline Mass Feb 20 1885 At a meeting of the Selectmen this day it was voted That the plan of the district included between…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 5 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … Discussion of Beacon St Brookline plan 1886 V
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 6 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … Oct 28th 1886 The above preliminary plan for a broad avenue over the line of Beacon St from the Boston and Albany RR to Chestnut Hill Reservoir and the West End work…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 7 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … Such as a wide an avenue besides serving the purpose of an ordinary street by affording access to the houses built upon it and a passage way for those who have no…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 8 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … character of the principal streets which have been laid out in the district none of which are broad enough to permit the laying of car tracks in them without practically destroying their…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 9 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … cyclers will cause the least possible annoyance to the those who use nervous horses as the The bridleways are designed to be seperated from the cycleways and from by turf and rows…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 10 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … Notes on the Plan This plan direct trunk line thoroughfare especially adapted to pleasure driving riding and walking and second a means of direct communication with the city that shall be always…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 11 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … pleasure drive and would prevent the adjoining property from being sought by those wishing to build a superior class of suburban residences if it were doubled in width would prevent adjoining property…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 12 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … Beacon Street it is well screened by on each side by two rows of trees growing in well prepared borders and the building line for houses is to lie a lie set…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 13 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … reasons a much higher rate of speed of the cars can be sustained and this with much less disturbance and noise than is usual the in ordinary street railways With reference to…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 14 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … Many prefer to live a little retired from the animation of such an avenue yet highly value it as a resort and as a mode of travel to and from their places…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 15 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … 24th Nov 1886 The proposed arrangement of the railway and the trees bordering it makes it necessary that there should be a driveway on each side of it in order that the…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 16 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … and by the elegance of their equipages and attire a pleasing spectacle as they pass by in daily processing another valuable feature will be gained tending to make the adjoining land desirable…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 17 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … V Brookline see also See V 12 Brookline 1888 Sand Sub letter to Mr Chandler on subdivision of Lyman Crafts St properties near Chestnut Hill
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 18 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … Chronicle of Local Events with âAbstracts and Brief Chronicles of the Timesâ MASS SATURDAY MARCH 2 1889 THE Rev Dr Thomas delivered the second lecture in the course in the Bethany building…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 19 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … V Brookline Mar 2 1889 PK THE CHRONICLE SATURDAY M THE BROOKLINE CLUB ______________ Members and Ladies Entertained with a Paper by Frederick Law Olmsted In the series of winter entertainments by…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 20 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … V Brookline PR Tie OLMSTED OLMSTED RECD Dec 23 1894 ACKDBY ANSDBY READ BYCE REPORT OF OLMSTED OLMSTED ELIOT LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS BROOKLINE MASS SEPT 8 1894 TO MESSRS GARDINER HAMLEN HARLOW LITTLE…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 21 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … already to be seen there If things are left to drift along as they customarily do will not the usual results soon follow One by one it may be years hence but…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 22 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … TABLE No 1 LIST OF THE LANDOWNERS AND ESTATES CONTRIBUTING TO THE REPORT AND PLANS OF OLMSTED OLMSTED ELIOT OWNERS Acres Square Feet Assessed Value Assessed of the Land Value per May…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 23 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … TABLE No 3 LIST OF LANDOWNERS AND LOTS IN THE McCORMACK SETTLEMENT ON CLYDE STREET BROOKLINE AS ASSESSED MAY 1 1894 OWNER Lot Street Square Feet Assessed Value Assessed per of the…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
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Image 24 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., … Brookline Streets 94
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1884
About this Item
Title
- Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; City and regional planning; Brookline, Mass., 1884-1894
Names
- Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
Created / Published
- 1884 - 1894
Headings
- - United States Sanitary Commission
- - Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903--Correspondence
- - Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903--Friends and associates
- - Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903--Family
- - Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903--Homes and haunts
- - Olmsted, John Charles, 1852-1920--Correspondence
- - Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-1957--Correspondence
- - Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895--Correspondence
- - Olmsted and Vaux (Firm: 1858)
- - Frederick Law Olmsted (Firm: 1858-1884)
- - F.L. and J.C. Olmsted (Firm : 1884-1889)
- - F.L. Olmsted and Company (Firm: 1889-1893)
- - Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot (Firm: 1893-1897)
- - F.L. and J.C. Olmsted (Firm : 1897-1898)
- - Olmsted Brothers (Firm: 1898-1961)
- - United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
- - Expositions
- - City planning
- - Conservation
- - Environmental protection
- - Landscape architecture
- - Parks--Design and construction
- - Regional planning
- - Slavery--Southern States
- - California--Gold discoveries
- - Central Park (New York, N.Y.)--History
- - Manuscripts
- - United States
Genre
- Manuscripts
Call Number/Physical Location
- mss35121, box 26; reel 24
- series: Subject File, 1857-1952
Source Collection
- Frederick Law Olmsted papers
Repository
- Manuscript Division
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- online text
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- California
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)
- City Planning
- Conservation
- Correspondence
- Design and Construction
- Environmental Protection
- Expositions
- F.L. And J.C. Olmsted (Firm)
- F.L. Olmsted and Company (Firm)
- Family
- Frederick Law Olmsted (Firm)
- Friends and Associates
- Gold Discoveries
- History
- Homes and Haunts
- Landscape Architecture
- Manuscripts
- Olmsted and Vaux (Firm: 1858)
- Olmsted Brothers (Firm)
- Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Olmsted, John Charles
- Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot (Firm)
- Parks
- Regional Planning
- Slavery
- Southern States
- United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
- United States Sanitary Commission
- Vaux, Calvert