Résumé

Partner, Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot, Landscape Architects, Brookline, MA.

Senior Partner, Olmsted Brothers, Landscape Architects, Brookline, MA, 1897-1920; Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., operated, with John, the Olmsted Brothers office, a firm responsible for over 3,000 commissions; these would include, on the West Coast, 37 parks in the City of Seattle, WA, and the suburbs, Palos Verdes Estates, CA, and Saint Francis Wood, San Francisco, CA.

College

Coursework, Landscape Architecture, Harvard University, Bussey Institution, Cambridge, MA, 1884-1885.

Relocation

The 1919 Harvard University Alumni Directory listed John Charles Olmsted's address as 99 Warren Place, Brookline, MA. (See Harvard Alumni Directory, [Cambridge, MA: Harvard Alumni Association, 1919]. p. 530.)

Parents

John Charles Olmsted was the adopted step-son of Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), the most influential landscape architect in American history.

Biographical Notes

John C. Olmsted began work designing a park system for Seattle, WA, 04/30/1903. Following months of surveying and studying the landscape, he submitted a parks plan to the City of Seattle, 09/1903.

• Vandœuvres, Geneva Switzerland (Architect's Birth)
  Vandœuvres, Geneva Switzerland

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• Brookline, MA (Architect's Death)
  Brookline, MA

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