Collection 1903-1998 1903-1927

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Collection 1903-1998 1903-1927

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv20872

Copies of Olmsted plans for selected Seattle parks, as well as microfilm reels containing job files.

3 reels of microfilm, 45 drawings

eng,

City of Seattle SeattleMunicipal Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 6367649

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Olmsted Associates

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Friends of Seattle’s Olmsted Parks

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Seattle’s park system was largely designed by the Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm from Massachusetts. John Charles Olmsted created a master plan in 1903 that laid out a 20-mile-long system of parks and boulevards from Seward Park to Ravenna Park and west to Fort Lawton. Olmsted also encouraged the creation of playgrounds throughout the city so that all residents would have one within a half mile of their homes. Seattle’s citizens were enthusiastic about Olms...