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Architects revive original landscape plans but give them a modern twist
And yet, according to Cory Shupe, a planner with the firm MGB+A, landscape architects really don't have any time to waste. Not if they want to make the grounds look like they are supposed to look. Shortly after the renovation is finished the grounds must be stately and inspiring in some parts and informal and inviting in other parts.
There's no time to waste. Not if the landscape architects want to realize, finally, the dream that was first drawn up nearly 100 years ago.
Biographers Charles Beveridge and Paul Rocheleau give Olmsted full credit for inventing the urban parkway and for having amazing vision. But they also point out that Olmsted's nephew, John C., made his own amazing contributions and has been largely overlooked.
It was John C. Olmsted who first designed Utah's Capitol Hill.
Frederick Law Olmsted was a good stepfather/uncle to Mary's two children. He took John into his architectural firm and trained him. Meanwhile, Mary and Frederick had a son of their own, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr.
Frederick Sr. wanted his son to take over the firm but Frederick Jr. was only in his early 20s in 1895, when Frederick Sr. felt his health failing. John, on the other hand, had been with the firm for 20 years and his uncle's partner for 10 of those years. Historians speculate that it fell to John to finish Frederick Jr.'s training.
At any rate, the company became Olmsted Brothers in 1895, and although John died in 1920, Frederick Jr. lived until 1957. All in all, the three Olmsteds are responsible for more than 100 years of urban landscape design. They created and supervised more than 6,000 projects.
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