Last updated: June 5, 2024
Place
Eastside Park
Olmsted Archives
Quick Facts
Location:
Paterson, NJ
Significance:
Olmsted Designed Park
MANAGED BY:
New Jersey’s Eastside and Westside Park are sister parks designed by John Y. Culyer and Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., respectively. Culyer, who was an assistant engineer on both Central and Prospect Park with Olmsted, was tasked with formally designing Eastside Park.
Development between the two parks was unique. Both opened a design competition to determine its layout. The two most notable planners to submit designs were Olmsted and Culyer. Culyer’s design was chosen for Eastside Park, and Olmsted's was chosen for Westside.
Culyer and Olmsted’s ideas were for the most part in sync. When Olmsted died in 1903, his legacy was incorporated into Eastside Park with the replacement of its naturalistic setting with intricate walkways of cobblestone and gravel laid out in organic fashion, providing a more formal landscape design.
Source: "Independence Park," Olmsted Online
For more information and primary resources, please visit:
Olmsted Research Guide Online
Olmsted Archives on Flickr
Development between the two parks was unique. Both opened a design competition to determine its layout. The two most notable planners to submit designs were Olmsted and Culyer. Culyer’s design was chosen for Eastside Park, and Olmsted's was chosen for Westside.
Culyer and Olmsted’s ideas were for the most part in sync. When Olmsted died in 1903, his legacy was incorporated into Eastside Park with the replacement of its naturalistic setting with intricate walkways of cobblestone and gravel laid out in organic fashion, providing a more formal landscape design.
Source: "Independence Park," Olmsted Online
For more information and primary resources, please visit:
Olmsted Research Guide Online
Olmsted Archives on Flickr