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Parking Lot Closure

Due to ongoing construction, the parking lot is closed. Ample street parking can be found along Dudley Street, including the Brookline Reservoir. For accessible parking, please visit our "Contact Us" page for more information.

Construction

There is ongoing construction due to roofing project. Please practice caution on the grounds and do not enter marked areas.

Title	Frederick Law Olmsted
Park Code	frla
Description	Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is recognized as the founder of American landscape architecture and the nation's foremost parkmaker. Olmsted moved his home to suburban Boston in 1883 and established the world's first full-scale professional off...
Location	lat:42.32424266, long:-71.13202567 States: MA Forecast
Contact	617-566-1689 frla_interpretation@nps.gov
Activities	Guided Tours Self-Guided Tours - Walking Junior Ranger Program Museum Exhibits Shopping Bookstore and Park Store
Entrance fees
Campgrounds	Count: 0
Places	Count: 50 A.H. Anderson Estate A.J.T. Taylor Estate A.S. Kerry Estate Acadia National Park Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition Alta San Rafael Alta Vista American University Amherst College Annapolis Roads Arlington National Cemetery Arthur G Dunn Estate Aspinwall Hill Audubon Park Augusta National Golf Club Back Bay Fens Back Cove Balboa Park Baltimore City Plan Baltimore Fire, 1904 Barton Hills Maintenance Corporation Baxter Square Beacon Hill House Beacon Street Widening Bear Dens Beardsley Park Beaver Brook Reservation Belle Isle Park Bennett Park Biltmore Estate Birmingham City Plan Birmingham Parks Blackstone Boulevard Parkway Blaine Memorial Blake Estate Bloomingdale Asylum Blue Hills Reservation Boca Grande Land Company Boone Square Boston and Albany Railroad Boulder, Colorado Improvement Association Branch Brook Park Brandegee Brandywine Park Bristol County Court House Broadmoor Hotel Brookland Parkway Brooklyn Botanic Garden Bryn Mawr College Buck Hill Falls Inn
Visitor Centers	Count: 1 Visitor Center Visitor Center Visitor center, bookstore, and self guided exhibits too the right at the front of the house. Design office tours depart from the visitor center. Entrances accessed through back parking lot or main house entrance through front vestibule are staff entrances.
Things to do	Count: 0
Tours	Count: 1 Emerald Necklace 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.
Articles	STEAM at Fairsted- Space Slime The Design Principles of Frederick Law Olmsted Shaping the System Under President Jimmy Carter The Civilian Experience in the Civil War STEAM at Fairsted- Blue Printing STEAM at Fairsted- Bridge Building STEAM at Fairsted- Planting STEAM at Fairsted- Watercolor Frederick Law Olmsted Jr’s Mountain Lake Sanctuary: The Creation and Legacy of a Didactic Landscape Photo Safari- Arnold Arboretum Photo Safari- Bear Dens Photo Safari- Muddy River Photo Safari- Pinebank Photo Safari- Schoolmaster Hill Photo Safari- Victory Gardens Echoes of the Olmsted Elm Alan Banks Essay Echoes of the Olmsted Elm Assignment One Echoes of the Olmsted Elm Assignment Three Echoes of the Olmsted Elm Assignment Two Echoes of the Olmsted Elm Charlie Pepper Essay Echoes of the Olmsted Elm Dale Broholm Essay Echoes of the Olmsted Elm Daniel Cavicchi Essay Echoes of the Olmsted Elm Lauren Meier Essay Adapting Washington’s Capitol Campus While Preserving the Olmsted Landscape Legacy A Tale of Two Cities: Preserving the Olmsted Brothers Legacies in Seattle and Spokane, Washington Balancing Adaptation and Legacy: How the Washington National Cathedral is Protecting its Olmsted Woods in the Era of Climate Change Bringing the Planting Fields Cultural Landscape Report to the Ground: Main Drive Renewal Project Cambridge American Cemetery Creating a Campus: The 19th Century College Architecture of the Pioneer Valley Finding Olmsted in the Restoration of the U.S. Capitol Grounds Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and the Improvement of Boulder, Colorado Managing Historic Infrastructure in a Rapidly Changing Environment Olmsted and Yosemite: Civil War, Abolition, and the National Park Idea Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site Cultural Landscape Olmsted’s 1883 Plan for Colgate University and its Impacts on the Campus “Once in a Lifetime” Opportunity to Restore Greenspace to Boston's Franklin Park The Insane Asylum Landscapes of Olmsted and Vaux The Olmsted Brothers 1918 Report on Washington D.C.’s Rock Creek Park: America’s First National Park General Management Plan Frederick Law Olmsted and the Rise of Golf in the United States Fat Book Week Olmsteds: Landscapes and Legacies History of Women in Landscape Architecture Project Profile: Landscape Stewardship Corps Pre-Apprenticeship Program Podcast 135: Pursuing a Career in Preservation Horticulture Inventions from the World's Columbian Exposition National Park Getaway: Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site Mona McKindley Designing the Parks: Learning in Action 2011 Freeman Tilden Award Recipients Series: Echoes of the Olmsted Elm: Works from the Rhode Island School of Design Witness Tree Project

Parking Lot Closure

Construction

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