Frederick Law Olmsted: Quick Facts

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Born	April 26, 1822 • Hartford • Connecticut
Died	August 28, 1903 (aged 81) • Brookline • Massachusetts
Role In	World’s Columbian Exposition

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Frederick Law Olmsted

Olmsted, Frederick Law

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Jens Jensen

American landscape architect

Le Nôtre, André

André Le Nôtre

French landscape architect

Daniel H. Burnham.

Daniel Burnham

American architect

Robert Moses seated at a desk, holding a candlestick telephone to his ear, with papers and office items in front of him.

Robert Moses

American public official

“Black Sun,” black tamba granite sculpture by Isamu Noguchi, 1960–63; in a private garden

Isamu Noguchi

American sculptor

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Ellwood Cubberley

American educator and administrator

Gifford Pinchot

Gifford Pinchot

American conservationist

Hunt, Richard Morris

Richard Morris Hunt

American architect

Palmer, Bertha Honoré

Bertha Honoré Palmer

American philanthropist

David Starr Jordan

David Starr Jordan

American ichthyologist, educator, and eugenicist

Downing, Andrew Jackson

Andrew Jackson Downing

American horticulturalist and landscape architect

Daniel Edgar Sickles

Daniel Edgar Sickles

American politician

Griffin, Walter Burley

Walter Burley Griffin

American architect and city planner

Leland Stanford

Leland Stanford

American politician and industrialist

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Horace William Shaler Cleveland

American landscape architect

William Kent

William Kent

British architect

Park at Petworth House, West Sussex, Eng., landscaped by Lancelot (“Capability”) Brown, c. 1751–57

Lancelot Brown

English landscape architect

Repton, portrait by an unknown artist

Humphry Repton

British landscape designer

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Jacques Wirtz

Belgian landscape designer

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John Claudius Loudon

Scottish landscape architect