For 30 years, the National Association for Olmsted Parks (NAOP) has raised awareness of the importance of the Olmsted legacy among public officials, community leaders, landscape design professionals and academics.  It is the only national organization solely dedicated to preserving the Olmsted legacy by providing the advocacy, research and education needed to protect, restore and maintain these exemplary parks and landscapes.  The Olmsted Papers have provided the intellectual capital for many of NAOP’s advocacy and restoration efforts.

Today, NAOP is the administrative steward of The Frederick Law Olmsted Papers Project.

The partnership between NAOP and The Frederick Law Olmsted Papers Project has advanced our collective efforts to document and raise awareness of the tremendous landscape heritage of Olmsted and his firm.  Those of us engaged in the stewardship and restoration of America’s Olmsted parks have been guided and enriched by the publication of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted. Completion of these volumes is an essential ingredient for all of our efforts to preserve historic Olmsted landscapes and to shape the future of urban landscape design.