Last updated: July 19, 2023
Person
Charles Scott Riley
Notable Projects designed while at the Olmsted Firm:
University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi
National Life Insurance Company, Montpelier, Vermont
Berkshire Life Insurance Company, Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company, Springfield, Massachusetts
Charles Scott Riley received his landscape architecture degree in 1934 from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design. He began his career in public service positions as senior landscape foreman with the Civilian Conservation Corps and as landscape supervisor of construction with the United States Housing Authority. Then, he spent 10 years in private practice from 1937 and 1947, first in Cincinnati, Ohio and later in Longmeadow, Massachusetts. In 1947 Riley began working for Olmsted Brothers as a staff landscape architect. He became a partner in 1950, a position he held until his retirement in 1961.