# @nationalparkservice on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc8gSSAOKu1
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/21024326-nationalparkservice-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2022-04-29T18:41:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** National Park Service (@nationalparkservice) — https://gondola.cc/nationalparkservice

## Caption

Did you know 2022 marks the bicentennial of Frederick Law Olmsted?  Born in 1822, Olmstead is recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the nation's foremost parkmaker. Olmsted moved his home to suburban Boston in 1883 and established the world's first full-scale professional office for the practice of landscape design. Olmsted is best known, along with colleague, Calvert Vaux, for designing the grounds of New York City's Central Park, as well as the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina and the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. During the next century, his sons and successors perpetuated Olmsted's design ideals, philosophy, and influence. 

The National Park Service acquired Olmsted's home and office (Fairsted) in 1979 and maintains many of the working records in the interest of understanding and preserving the special places this firm created. You can learn more on a visit to @olmstednhs.

This year also marks the 200th birthday of Ulysses S. Grant. Born just a day after Frederick Law Olmsted, the Grant-Olmsted connection has a long legacy. Architects within the Olmsted firm designed Grant Park (Chicago), Grant's Tomb (New York), and Grant Memorial (Washington, D.C.).

Image 1:  Located in the Green Hill section of Brookline, MA. Olmsted bought the Clark homestead, an 1810 Federal farmhouse, in 1883. Olmsted and his son John Charles renovated the house and landscaped the property. In 1903, he added the office wing to the northwest of the main house.

Image 2: Portrait of Frederick Law Olmsted, 1893.

#olmsted @grantstombnps @usgrantnps #fredericklawolmsted #parks #landscapearchitecture #architecture #massachusetts

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| National Park Service | @nationalparkservice | https://gondola.cc/nationalparkservice | Government Organization |

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parks, fredericklawolmsted, massachusetts, landscapearchitecture, architecture, olmsted

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