PCAD - Olmsted Brothers, Landscape Architects

Aerial view of Fort Lawton, Seattle, c. 1934; from the University of Washington Libraries, Digital Collections, MOHAI photo

Exterior view of the Charles H. Clarke House, The Highlands, Shoreline, WA, 1909. From the University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division, Andrew Willatsen Collection, PH Coll. 340, Item #SEA2632

Exterior view of the Via Campesina facade, Palos Verdes Public Library, Malaga Cove Branch, Palos Verdes Estates, c. 2015; from the Palos Verdes Estates Library District

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James Frederick Dawson, Percival Gallagher, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., John Charles Olmsted

Active 1898-1950

Firm Notes

This highly influential landscape architecture firm succeeded that of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), the greatest American landscape architect of the 19th century. The Olmsted Brothers, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., (1870-1957) and John Charles Olmsted (1852-1920), may have been the most important urban park planners of the next century, designing preserves across the United States, including a string of them in Seattle, WA, Portland, OR, and Spokane, WA. They also designed the campuses of the University of Washington and Oregon State University as well as the Washington State Capitol in Olympia, WA. In addition, the Olmsted Brothers also designed remarkable park systems for Cleveland, OH, Utica, NY, and Union County, NJ.

While the firm was headquartered in Brookline, MA, the Olmsteds operated a busy West Coast Office in Palos Verdes Estates, CA, during the 1920s.

PCAD id: 1836

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Buildings and other works

Name	Date	City	State
Agen, John B., House #2, Broadview, Seattle, WA	1915	Seattle	WA
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), Manufactures Building, Seattle, WA	1908-1909	Seattle	WA
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE), Site Plan, Seattle, WA	1907-1909	Seattle	WA
Black, C.H., House, Queen Anne, Seattle, WA	1907-1909	Seattle	WA
Burke, Thomas and Caroline E. McGilvra, House, The Highlands, Shoreline, WA	1908	Shoreline	WA
City of Seattle, Parks and Recreation Department, Colman Park, Seattle, WA	1909	Seattle	WA
City of Seattle, Parks and Recreation Department, Green Lake Community Center, Green Lake Preliminary Plan, Seattle, WA	1909	Seattle	WA
City of Seattle, Parks and Recreation Department, Interlaken Park, Interlaken, Seattle, WA	1905	Seattle	WA
City of Seattle, Parks and Recreation Department, Lakeview Park, Seattle, WA	1903-1912	Seattle	WA
City of Seattle, Parks and Recreation Department, Mount Baker Park, Seattle, WA	1909	Seattle	WA
City of Seattle, Parks and Recreation Department, West Seattle Playground, West Seattle, WA	1910-1911	Seattle	WA
City of Seattle, Parks and Recreation Department, Woodland Park Preliminary Plan, Seattle, WA	1909	Seattle	WA
City of Spokane, Board of Park Commissioners, Olmsted Master Plan for Spokane, Spokane, WA	1908	Spokane	WA
Clarke, Charles H., House, The Highlands, Shoreline, WA	1908-1909	Shoreline	WA
Dunn, Arthur and Jeanette, Summer House and Gardens, Broadview, Seattle, WA	1915-1916	Seattle	WA
Garrett House, The Highlands, Shoreline, WA	1936	Shoreline	WA
Highlands Neighborhood Residential Plan, Shoreline, WA	1907
Kerr, Peter, House, Portland, OR	1910-1914	Portland	OR
Kerry, A.S., Sr., House, The Highlands, Shoreline, WA	1910-1911	Shoreline	WA
Leimert , Walter H, Company, Leimert Square Plan, Leimert Park, Los Angeles, CA	1927-1928	Los Angeles	CA
Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition, Plan, Portland, OR	1904-1905	Portland	OR
Malaga Cove Plaza, Palos Verdes Estates, CA	1922-1924	Palos Verdes Estates	CA
Mason-McDuffie Company, Saint Francis Wood, Tract, San Francisco, CA	1912-1913	San Francisco	CA
Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr., House, Ocean Bluffs, Palos Verdes Estates, CA	1925-1927	Palos Verdes Estates	CA
Palos Verdes Public Library, Malaga Cove Branch, Palos Verdes Estates, CA	1926-1930	Palos Verdes Estates	CA
Panama-California Exposition, Master Plan, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA	1911-1915	San Diego	CA
State of Washington, Capitol Building #4, Olympia, WA	1911-1928	Olympia	WA
Thorne, Chester, and Anna Hoxie, House #2, American Lake, Lakewood, WA	1908-1911	Lakewood	WA
United States Army (USA), Fort Lawton, Seattle, WA	1898-1900	Seattle	WA
University of Washington, Seattle (UW), Campus Plan, 1904, Seattle, WA	1903-1904	Seattle	WA
University of Washington, Seattle (UW), Rainier Vista, Seattle, WA	1909	Seattle	WA
University of Washington, Seattle (UW), Washington Park Arboretum, Seattle, WA	1934-1936	Seattle	WA
White, Chester F., House, The Highlands, Shoreline, WA	1912	Shoreline	WA

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