FAH230H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Frederick Law Olmsted, Olmsted Park, Arnold Arboretum
Document Summary
Riverside is a 1600 acre community along the des plaines river west of chicago. Public amenity. suburban development = new transportation systems street cars and trains first available to the wealthy then became available to middle classes. Beaver brook"s historic significance includes reminders of its past; the remains of a 19th century fulling mill, the historic robert morris. Copeland house (c. 1835) and a monument to the waverly oaks, perhaps the most famous trees of the 1890"s. Referred to trees in massachusetts. a plan to save ancient trees threatened by urban development and in order to do that had to be understand as something important to the public. Title: a broad valley of the southeastern fells (whose trees, about to hide the blue hill range, have already hidden the valley of the mystic) Removement of trees suddenly reveals valley (lake and folly) beyond that had been previously hidden. Drawings show modesty of his technique, underplays and softens ambition of proposal.
