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Olmsted parks in New Jersey / Jeanne Kolva.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating SB482.N5 K65 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kolva, Jeanne.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Parks--New Jersey.
- Parks.
- Landscape architecture.
- New Jersey.
- Frederick Law Olmsted (Firm).
- Olmsted Brothers.
- Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903.
- Olmsted, Frederick Law.
- Landscape architecture--New Jersey.
- Genre:
- Guidebooks.
- Physical Description:
- 176 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Atglen, PA : Schiffer Publishing, [2011]
- Summary:
- A historic overview of the parks the Olmsted companies created in New Jersey primarily for the county park commissions in Essex, Union, and Passaic counties. Son and stepson of the creator of New Yorks Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and John Charles Olmsted, continued with their fathers naturalistic style of landscape architecture, with 20th-century modifications, into the 1960s. Illustrated with more than 200 historic and contemporary photographs, vintage postcards, and Olmsted sketches and plans, this survey chronologically details the development of each park or reservation as it was transformed from former farmland, swamp, forest, or a previous park. Included are the gems of Branch Brook Park in Newark, Cadwalader Park in Trenton, Warinanco Park in Roselle, and Brookdale Park in Montclair and Bloomfield. Discover the Olmsted legacy in some of the most magnificent public parks in New Jersey
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-172) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780764338724
- 0764338722
- OCLC:
- 730404946
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