aerial view of green space cutting through buildings of city

Emerald Necklace

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

  • 30 - 180 minutes
  • 20 tour stops

The richly varied parks of the Emerald Necklace reflect people's very different attitudes about, and uses of, landscapes across more than four centuries-from the colonists of the 1600s to the "father of landscape architecture" in America, Frederick Law Olmsted, in the late 1800s, to the present day.

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