Photo Gallery

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  Walks and Talks

  19 Photos

  Each spring rangers lead the Walks & Talks series of tours of Olmsted-designed landscapes in the nearby Boston metropolitan area. See photos from a 2011 walk around Jamaica Pond and a 2010 walk along the length of the the length of the Emerald Necklace.
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  The Olmsted Family

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  Who lived here at Fairsted? Besides Frederick Law Olmsted and his wife Mary, their children John Charles, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (Rick), and Marion also called Fairsted their home.
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  Good Neighbors On-Site Activities

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  At Fairsted, students in the Good Neighbors program explore the restored landscape, investigate the Olmsted design office, and create 3D park model based on client needs.
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  The Olmsted Firm

  4 Photos
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  Plans, Drawings and Photographs

  4 Photos
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  Olmsted Elm Exhibit Objects: Assignment One

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  Frederick Law Olmsted was a man of many interests and occupations. Some more successful than others. Choose one of these occupations and make an object that you think Olmsted would have wanted to have with him during the practice of the chosen occupation.
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  Olmsted Elm Exhibit Objects: Assignment Two

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  Leisure activities in public spaces have changed during the past century. Identify a period of time in America’s past, staring with the 1850s, and create an object that reflects a form of leisure that would have been popular during that time period.
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  Olmsted Elm Exhibit Objects: Assignment Three

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  The demands of public spaces in our society have been fraught with turmoil since our country’s founding. Use of public spaces does not always conform to the expectations of society nor its laws. Pick a time period and explore this issue through an object.