The Olmsted National Historic Site and the Growth of Historic Landscape Preservation, 1979-2004.
Allen DG. 2005. The Olmsted National Historic Site and the Growth of Historic Landscape Preservation, 1979-2004.. Cultural Landscape - Miscellaneous. National Park Service. Boston
(From Chapter One) "The establishment in 1979 of the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site (Olmsted NHS) represented the culmination of nearly a decade of effort, carried on by various individuals and institutions throughout the United States. The small, irregularly shaped 1.75 acre property, once a nineteenth-century farmhouse and now part of a wealthy residential section of Brookline, Massachusetts, was acquired by Olmsted in 1883 as both a home and office and served as the headquarters for several successor Olmsted landscape architecture firms until 1979. The story of its creation and development [1979-2004] as a national historic site has broad significance, not only for the general public, professionals, and for the role that landscape architecture plays in our society, but also because its history reflects in large part the evolution that has taken place in recent years within the National Park Service, itself."
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Allen, David
- Date of Issue
- 2005
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Keywords
- administrative history, Brookline, cultural landscape, Fairsted, Frederick Law Olmsted, FRLA, historic preservation, IR1, landscape architecture, MA, Northeast Region, OCLP, Olmsted Archives, Olmsted Center