Frederick Law Olmsted Papers Project News

Washington, D.C.—The National Association for Olmsted Parks (NAOP) announces a grant award from Friends of Fairsted. Funding will support publication of Supplementary Series Volume 2: Plans and Photographs of Public Parks, Recreation Grounds, Parkways, Park Systems, and Scenic Reservation, of the Frederick Law Olmsted Papers Project. This Volume is one of the last remaining to be published in the 12-volume series.

The Friends of Fairsted, a non‐profit organization that supports the work of the National Park Service at the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, announce a fellowship to advance the knowledge and appreciation of the Olmsted legacy.

A Friends of Fairsted Lecture in Brookline, MA, March 15, 2012
NAOP Trustee Ethan Carr, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and editor of Volume 8 of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: The Early Boston Years 1882–1890, provides an insider's look at the process of preparing the volume including new and revealing details of his work on the Boston Park System. Volume 8 will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2013. Visit friendsoffairsted.org/events for more information.

The Editors of the Frederick Law Olmsted Papers seek assistance in identifying the location of the "small homestead" described in Olmsted's article published in the May 2, 1888 issue of the periodical Garden & Forest entitled "Plan for a Small Homestead."

The number of details concerning the place offered in the article leads the editors to believe that it describes an actual commission and not a theoretical one. However, no known commissions for the grounds of private residences during the period when the article was published seem to fit the criteria provided in the article. The editors are providing here the text of the article, the two accompanying maps, and a list of the characteristics of the place arranged by topic. The assistance of visitors to the website is requested.

NAOP Announces Partnership with Franklin & Marshall College to
Complete the Final Volume of the Olmsted Papers

With Supplementary Series Volume 2 being prepared for publication in 2012, and editorial work on Volume 8: The Early Boston Years, 1882–1890nearing completion at the University of Virginia, under Dr. Ethan Carr, the National Association for Olmsted Parks (NAOP) and the Olmsted Papers Project are excited to announce the beginning of editorial work on Volume 9: The Last Great Projects, 1890–1895, this July. Volume 9 is the final chronologically arranged volume in the 12-volume Olmsted Papers series. David Schuyler at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, will serve as the principal investigator and principal editor of Volume 9. In addition to Professor Schuyler's editorship with this project, Franklin & Marshall College is providing physical space, student research assistance, and other logistical support for the Volume 9 project.