Planting Fields Arboretum is a 409-acre historic site in Oyster Bay on the North Shore of Long Island. Located in an area often called the Gold Coast, the site was among hundreds of grand estates built in the late 1800s and early 1900s that reflected the emerging wealth sparked by the Industrial Revolution. While the fate of most of these estates was grim, Planting Fields survived with its acreage and historic structures intact. [Read more…] about Planting Fields: An Olmstedian Vision Blooms
Planting Fields Arboretum
Nationally Significant Olmsted Landscapes Threatened
The Cultural Landscape Foundation today released Landslide 2022, an annual thematic report and exhibition about threatened and at-risk landscapes, focusing on twelve sites designed by Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., and his successor firms, a founder of the discipline of landscape architecture best known as the co-designer of Central Park in New York City.
This year marks the bicentennial of the birth of Olmsted Sr. (1822-1903). The sites feature the involvement of one or more of all three Olmsteds: Olmsted Sr., his son Olmsted Jr. (1870-1957), and stepson John Charles Olmsted (1852-1920). [Read more…] about Nationally Significant Olmsted Landscapes Threatened