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This series contains landscape plans for FLO’s projects. The files include notes about the plans, lists, and photographs. The oversize plans are stored separately. This series is arranged by job number.

Box 1

  • Berkeley Neighborhood Plan, 1866 - See Also: Oversize #3
  • Boston - from Volume 7
  • European Parks
  • Problem Plans
  • GSD Visuals List
  • Guide to Plans
  • Fairsted- Research at the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site
  • Amherst Common, Job Number 67
  • Kirkwood Land Company, Job Number 71
  • McLean Asylum, Job Number 0098
  • San Francisco Pleasure Grounds, Job Number 01/1
  • Riverside Community, Job Number 01/3
  • Hartford Retreat for Insane, Job Number 01/5
  • Biltmore, North Carolina, Job Number 170
  • Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, Job Number 204
  • John J. Albright, Buffalo, New York, Job Number 0247
  • World’s Columbian Exposition, Job Number 274
  • Columbia Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Job Number 290
  • Buffalo State Asylum, Job Number 03/5
  • Mrs. T. D. McCagg - Pinte a Pic, Job Number 348
  • Newark Park, Job Number 420
  • Central Park (Perkins, CP, Avery Copy), Job Number 502
  • Central Park (New York Historical Society...), Job Number 502 (2 folders)
  • Central Park (Fairsted), Job Number 502 (2 folders)
  • Central Park (Central Park Collect), Job Number 502
  • Central Park (Herbert Mitchell), Job Number 502
  • Central Park (Miscellaneous Sources), Job Number 502 (2 folders)
  • Central Park (Perkins, CP, Reeder Copy), Job Number 502
  • Central Park (Municipal Archives) Job Number 502
  • Central Park (Public Domain) Job Number 502
  • Central Park (Private Collections), Job Number 502
  • Morningside Park, New York, New York, Job Number 503
  • Massachusetts Agricultural College, Job Number 05/4
  • Riverside, New York, Job Number 505
  • Riverdale Park, New York, New York, Job Number 506
  • Prospect Park, Brooklyn, New York, Job Number 509 (2 folders)
  • Bay Ridge Parkway, Brooklyn, New York, Job Number 510
  • Dyker Beach Park, Brooklyn, New York, Job Number 513
  • Bushwick Park, Brooklyn, New York, Job Number 514
  • Rockaway Point, New York, New York, Job Number 515
  • Walnut Hill Park, New Britain, Connecticut, Job Number 600
  • [Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut], Job Number [“Probably 601”]
  • Jeffersonville, Indiana Depot, Job Number 603
  • John Carter Brown, Newport, Rhode Island Job Number 604
  • Amherst College, Job Number 605
  • Riverside, Illinois, Job Number 607
  • Barthold Schlesinger, Brookline, Massachusetts, Job Number 614 (2 folders)
  • Henry Page, Mountain Station, New Jersey, Job Number 616
  • Belle Grove Subdivision, Job Number 619
  • Mrs. S. E. Guild, Job Number 645
  • Boston and Albany Railroad, Job Number 647
  • North Easton Memorial Hall, Job Number 649
  • Fairsted, Brookline, Massachusetts, Job Number 673
  • Robert Treat Paine - “Stonehurst”, Job Number 677
  • King - Glover Lands, Newport, Rhode Island, Job Number 681

Box 2

  • Theodore M. Davis, Newport, Rhode Island, Job Number 684
  • “Kragsyde” (G. Nixon Black), Manchester, Massachusetts, Job Number 686
  • Day’s Park, Buffalo, New York, Job Number 704
  • The Front, Buffalo, New York, Job Number 706
  • Lafayette Park, Buffalo, New York, Job Number 709
  • Parkside, Buffalo, New York, Job Number 713
  • Prospect Park, Buffalo, New York, Job Number 714
  • The Parade, Buffalo, New York, Job Number 717
  • South Park, Buffalo, New York, Job Number 718
  • Delaware Park, Buffalo, New York, Job Number 719
  • Boston Park System, Job Number 900
  • Arborway, Boston, Job Number 901
  • New York City Wards 23 and 24, Job Number 09/3
  • Charlesbank, Boston, Job Number 907
  • Franklin Park, Boston, Job Number 918
  • Jamaica Pond, Boston, Job Number 920
  • Longwood Playground, Brookline, Massachusetts, Job Number 924
  • Marine Park, Boston, Job Number 926
  • Muddy River Improvement, Boston, Job Number 927
  • New London Memorial Park, Job Number 1001
  • Chautauqua Point, Job Number 10/3 - See Also: Oversize #2
  • Buffalo City Hall, Job Number 10/6
  • Darius Ogden Mills Estate, Job Number 10/7
  • Brookline Hills Subdivision, Job Number 1012
  • John W. Ellis (Newport, Rhode Island) Job Number 1015
  • William D. Sloane, Lenox, Massachusetts, Job Number 1027 - See Also: Oversize #2
  • William S. Webb, Burlington, Vermont, Job Number 1031
  • Leland Stanford University, Job Number 1032
  • Villa Park Land Company, Job Number 1035
  • “Rough Point” Frederick W. Vanderbilt (Newport, Rhode Island), Job Number 1036
  • Planters Hill and World’s End, Hingham, [Massachusetts], Job Number 1051
  • Swampscott Land Trust, Swampscott, Massachusetts, Job Number 1053
  • Sudbrook Land Company, Job Number 1054
  • Pawtucket Park, Rhode Island, Job Number 1059
  • Newport Land Trust, Job Number 1070
  • William Caleb Loring, Prides Crossing, Massachusetts, Job Number 1071
  • Lake Wauconda, Colorado, Job Number 1091
  • Manhattan Streets, Job Number 11/2
  • Genesee Park, Rochester, Job Number 1102
  • Highland Park, Rochester, Job Number 1104
  • Mountain View Cemetery, Oakland, California, Job Number 11/8              
  • See Also: Oversize #2
  • William Rockefeller, Tarrytown, New York, Job Number 1121
  • Linwood, Lynn, Massachusetts, Job Number 1123
  • H. McKay Twombly, “Florham”, Job Number 1139
  • Edward S. Philbrick Estate Subdivision, Job Number 1145
  • William Mitchell Estate, “Bryn Mawr,” Job Number 1148
  • Plymouth Training Green, Job Number 1151
  • Adrian Iselin, New Rochelle, New York, Job Number 1164
  • Princeton University (College of New Jersey), Job Number 1169
  • Cadwalader Place, Trenton, New Jersey, Job Number 1170
  • Morristown Land Company, Job Number 1179
  • Cadwalader Park, Trenton, New Jersey, Job Number 1181
  • Eugene Higgins, Morristown, New Jersey, Job Number 1201
  • Ogden Goelet (Newport, Rhode Island) Job Number 1203
  • Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Job Number 12/6 (2 folders)
  • Denver and Lookout Mountain Railroad Company, Job Number 1206
  • Oliver Ames, Jr., North Easton, Massachusetts, Job Number 1224
  • Point d’Acadie, Bar Harbor, Maine, Job Number 1232
  • Hot Springs, Reservation, Arkansas, Job Number 1244
  • Kansas City Parks, Job Number 1250
  • Cherokee Park, Louisville, Kentucky, Job Number 1263
  • Iroquois Park, Louisville, Kentucky, Job Number 1266
  • Shawnee Park, Louisville, Kentucky, Job Number 1269
  • Chicago Art Institute, Job Number 1298
  • J. R. Busk Estate, Job Number 1299
  • Bloomingdale Asylum, Job Number 1323
  • American University, Job Number 1327
  • Alessandro, California, Job Number 1328
  • John Sloane, Lenox, Massachusetts, Job Number 1346
  • Newton Boulevard Syndicate, Job Number 1365
  • D. Willis James, Madison, New Jersey, Job Number 1380
  • John T. Davis, St. Louis, Missouri, Job Number 1384-12
  • C. J. Paine Estate, Weston, Massachusetts, Job Number 1396
  • Charles Eliot Norton Preliminary Plan, [Job Number 1398?]
  • Tarrytown Heights Land Company, New York, Job Number 14/3
  • “Oaklands” Subdivision - Sarah B. Eaton, Job Number 1426
  • Downing Memorial Park, Newburgh, New York, Job Number 1428
  • Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, Job Number 1435 - See Also: Oversize #3
  • Beaver Brook Reservation, Massachusetts, Job Number 1502
  • South Park (now Kennedy Park) Fall River, Massachusetts, Job Number 1605
  • River Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Job Number 1651
  • Lake Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Job Number 1653
  • Pinehurst, North Carolina, Job Number 1772
  • Morton Park, Newport, Rhode Island, Job Number 1823
  • Back Cove, Portland Maine, Job Number 1861
  • Chicago Park System, Job Number 1900
  • Jackson Park, Chicago, Illinois, Job Number 1902 - See Also: Oversize 2,3
  • University of California (Berkley), Job Number 2047
  • Newport Hospital Lands, Job Number 2246
  • Union Square, New York, New York, Job Number 23/1
  • Roger Williams Park, Providence, Rhode Island, Job Number 2603
  • United States Capitol Grounds, Job Number 2820
  • National Zoo, Job Number 2822
  • John C. Phillips - Moraine Farm, Job Number 29/7 (2 folders)
  • Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Job Number 3960
  • Palos Verdes, California, Job Number 5950
  • Blythe Beach Park, Long Branch, New Jersey
  • Richardson proposal for Frederick Law Olmsted House

Oversize Plans -- forthcoming