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Olmsted Parks in New Jersey
Jeanne Kolva
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Description for Olmsted Parks in New Jersey
Num Pages: 176 pages, 205 color & b/w images. BIC Classification: 1KBBEJ; AMV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 286 x 226 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1216.
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 York’s Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and John Charles Olmsted, continued with their father’s 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 ... Read more
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 York’s Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and John Charles Olmsted, continued with their father’s 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764338724
SKU
V9780764338724
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About Jeanne Kolva
With a Master's degree in Art History, Jeanne Kolva has worked as a photograph library assistant, an architectural historian, and town historian. She lives in Highland Park, New Jersey, where she co-authored a town history as a member of the Highland Park Historical Society.
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