A list of books by and about Frederick Law Olmsted
Prepared by Anne Clark, Brookline Room Librarian, Public Library of Brookline
Image courtesy of the National Park Service
- Art of the Olmsted Landscape
- Kelly, Bruce. New York: New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission: Arts Publisher, 1981.
- The California Frontier, 1863-1865
- Olmsted, Frederick Law. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990
- Civilizing American Cities: Writings on City Landscapes
- Olmsted, Frederick Law. New York: Da Capo Press, 1997.
- A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century
- Rybczynski, Witold. New York: Scribner, 1999.
- The Cotton Kingdom; a traveller's observations on cotton and slavery in the American slave States. Based upon three former volumes of journeys and investigations by the same author.
- Olmsted, Frederick Law. New York: Knopf, 1953.
- Creating Central Park, 1857-1861
- Olmsted, Frederick Law. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1983.
- Defending the Union: the Civil War and the U.S. Sanitary Commission, 1861-1863
- Olmsted, Frederick Law. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986.
- Emerald Necklace Master Plan 1990
- Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Dept. of Environmental Management, 1990.
- Emerald Necklace Parks: master plan
- Boston: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Dept. of Environmental Management, 2001.
- FLO: A biography of Frederick Law Olmsted
- Roper, Laura Wood. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973
- The Formative Years, 1822 to 1852
- Olmsted, Frederick Law. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.
- Frederick Law Olmsted, 1870-1957: an appreciation of the man and his achievements
- Whiting, Edward Clark. Boston: American Society of Landscape Architects, 1958
- Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston park system
- Zaitzevsky, Cynthia. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1982.
- Frederick Law Olmsted: designing the American landscape
- Beveridge, Charles E. New York: Rizzoli, 1995.
- Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect, 1822-1903
- Olmsted, Frederick Law. New York, London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922-1928
- Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.: founder of landscape architecture in America
- Fabos, Julius Gy. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1970.
- Frederick Law Olmsted: the passion of a public artist
- Kalfus, Melvin. New York: New York University Press, 1990.
- Frederick Law Olmsted's New York.
- Rogers, Elizabeth Barlow. New York: Praeger, in association with the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1972
- General management plan, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, Town of Brookline, Norfolk County, Massachusetts
- United States. National Park Service. North Atlantic Regional Office. Planning and Design. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, National Park Service, North Atlantic Region, Planning and Design, 1983
- A Journey in the Back Country
- Olmsted, Frederick Law. New York: Mason Bros., 1860.
- The Slave States, before the Civil War
- Olmsted, Frederick Law. New York: Capricorn Books, 1959.
- A Journey through Texas, or, a saddle-trip on the south-western frontier: with a statistical appendix
- Olmsted, Frederick Law. New York: Dix, Edwards & Co. ; London: S. Low, Son & Co., 1857.
- Landscape Gardening in Brookline
- Collins, Hazel G. 1903.
- Landscape into Cityscape; Frederick Law Olmsted's plans for a greater New York City
- Olmsted, Frederick Law. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press 1968.
- The Master List of design projects of the Olmsted firm, 1857-1979
- Washington, D.C.: National Association for Olmsted Parks: National Park Service, Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, 2008.
- The Master List of design projects of the Olmsted firm in Massachusetts: 1866-1950
- Boston: Massachusetts Association for Olmsted Parks, 1986.
- A Modern Arcadia: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. & the plan for Forest Hills Gardens
- Klaus, Susan L. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.
- The Nature of Recreation; a handbook in honor of Frederick Law Olmsted, using examples from his work
- Wurman, Richard Saul. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press for the American Federation of Arts, 1972.
- Olmsted Brothers landscape architects, Brookline, Massachusetts.
- New York: Architectural Catalog, 1937.
- The Olmsted National Historic Site and the growth of historic landscape preservation
- Allen, David Grayson. Boston: Northeastern University Press; Hanover: University Press of New England, 2007.
- Olmsted South, old South critic, new South planner
- Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979
- Olmsted's America: an "unpractical" man and his vision of civilization
- Hall, Lee. Boston: Little, Brown, 1995.
- The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted. Supplementary series.
- Olmsted, Frederick Law. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997-
- Slavery and the South, 1852-1857
- Olmsted, Frederick Law. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981.
- Walks and talks of an American farmer in England
- Olmsted, Frederick Law. Amherst: Library of American Landscape History: Distributed by University of Massachusetts Press, 2002.
- Works of the Olmsteds on parks and city planning
- Olmsted, Frederick Law
- The Years of Olmsted, Vaux & Company, 1865-1874
- Olmsted, Frederick Law. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
For Kids
- Frederick Law Olmsted: partner with Nature
- Johnston, Johanna. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1975.
- The man who made parks: the story of park builder Frederick Law Olmsted
- Wishinsky, Frieda. Toronto: Tundra Books, 1999.
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