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Bringing the Planting Fields Cultural Landscape Report to the Ground: Main Drive Renewal Project

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Bringing the Planting Fields Cultural Landscape Report to the Ground: Main Drive Renewal Project

Presenter Biographies

Patricia M. O’Donnell founded Heritage Landscapes LLC, Preservation Landscape Architects and Planners in 1987. She began her career with historic landscape reports for Prospect Park. She has successfully completed planning and implementation projects on over 50 Olmsted legacy landscapes. For Planting Fields, she led the collaborative, award-winning Cultural Landscape Report grounded in history while targeting improved access and social inclusion, enhanced nature and biodiversity, and maintainability, within the global UN SDGs goals and targets to act locally on universal objectives.

Gina Wouters has led the Planting Fields Foundation since January 2019 and has engaged deeply with the Olmsted Brothers designed landscape of the former Coe estate. Wouter commissioned the deeply researched Cultural Landscape Report in partnership with the Planting Fields Historic Park and Arboretum and NYS Parks. She is guiding collaborative implementation of projects to preserve and restore this important historic designed landscape. Her prior positions at Vizcaya Museum and Gardens and Cheekwood Museum and Gardens deepened her expertise in the landscape, art and architecture of Country Place Estates.

Part of a series of articles titled Olmsteds: Landscapes and Legacies.

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

Last updated: December 21, 2022