Manuscript/Mixed Material Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, and Grant's Tomb; 1873-1875
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Image 1 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED SUBJECT FILE Parks New York N Y Morningside 1878 Riverside Granto Tomb 18735- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 2 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 1 On the 3 Mch 1873 On the 2 the On the _31__Mch___ 1873___ I presented the Board their Commissions of Parks then in office with results a preliminary report on the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 3 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … in which the leading idea of a plan formed in accordance with the intention of the act was presented laid out for them This idea being approved plans for different parts of…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 4 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … the Board may yet be re the action of the last two years may this act may yet overruled another Board required to proceed under the original law I have thought it…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 5 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … Document No 50 Board of the Department of Public Parks October 11 1873 The Landscape Architect submitted a preliminary study of a design for the laying out of Morningside Park together with…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 6 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 2 DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC PARKS OFFICE OF DESIGN AND SUPERINTENDENCE NEW YORK 11th October 1873 To the Hon SALEM H WALES President of the Board SIR I have the honor to present…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 7 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 4 the town now growing on the Harlem plain far out across a wide range of beautiful country and over the waters and islands of the river and sound the eastern seagate…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 8 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 6 20 feet above the adjoining surface of the park and from the angle the street grade descends rapidly to the north and ascends to the west Under these circumstances an architectural…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 9 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 8 of the Park the elevation being overcome by a convenient combination of stairs and sloping walks Between the two entrances on the upper and the three on the lower side of…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 10 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 10 The following is an approximate estimate of the cost of construction of Morningside Park upon the general plan submitted It has been chiefly prepared by Mr Bogart from date furnished by…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 11 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 1 1873 To proceed further with the the construction of Riverside Park under the plan adopted by the Board it will be necessary to determine by when work whether the Department will…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 12 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … What little work can be done on Riverside Park at this time without a determination complication with work to be done in Riverside Avenue will be completed in a few days To…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 13 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … If the O of P P 3 insert section I and transmit to the DPW Comm the drawings which are herewith submitted with the information that they have been adopted by the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 14 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 4 2 If this latter course is adopted There must be a certain degree of cooperation between the two Depts with reference to the work to be done at the mutual boundary…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 15 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … It will not be possible for either Dept to carry on the intended work within its own territory to advantage without operating to some extent upon the territory of the other and…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 16 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … Memo dft Com to Board on Riverside Ave 17 Nov 1873- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 17 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … read to Board 26 Jany 1874 Riverside Park Department of Public Parks Office of Design Superintendence New York 26th January 1874 To the Hon S H Wales President of the Board Sir…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 18 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 2 of Public Parks which had convened to discuss the subject on the site of Riverside Park in which the leading idea of a plan formed in accordance with the intention of…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 19 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 3 of the question should if possible be used before it is consummated For this reason and also because it has been suggested that there are technical objections to proceedings under the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 20 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 4 to the eastward of it accessible second to keep to the westward of all land the surface of which was well adapted to be used for building and thus to require…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 21 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 11 14 feet The A being made in this may 1114 feet The ground for the park would then lie The ground at the same time assigned to the Park lies between…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 22 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 6 westward but Fifth from a walk laid out as high as possible along the highest ground the retaining wall of the Avenue would be almost constantly seen close at hand on…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 23 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 7 adjoining the walk on the east would need to be of similar character to those prescribed for the west Section A Tenth Ninth as these trees would shut off the view…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 24 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 8 passages for themselves out of it and commit other disorders A walk of about 50 feet in width is thus called for but as this would be a hardly practicable with…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 25 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 9 enjoyed from the drive and which because of its greater elevation would otherwise be finer than those from the walk will park would be cut off by the trees needed for…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 26 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 10 south communications as the district immediately to the eastward of it there being within a short distance two avenues having a greater average width better grades and which are a more…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 27 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 11 check their horses in going down grades exceeding 1 in 25 If a stretch of pleasure road with a grade steeper than 1 in 25 lies between two stretches with grades…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 28 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 12 the Common Council it is was assumed that the cost of constructing Riverside and Morningside Avenues on the original plan would be nearly 2000000 If this is a fair estimate the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 29 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 13 date travel to the doors of houses expected to be built facing toward the park a side road and walk 30 feet in width is proposed to be maintained on the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 30 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 14 South of 104th Street the surface of the ground has not sufficient elevation above the grade of 12th Avenue except for a short distances at two points to allow the drive…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 31 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 15 without intercepting the view except by their stems from any part of it The arrangement is illustrated on a larger scale by the plan marked C- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 32 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 16 A rider on Plan B shows another improvement which is deemed very desirable to be provided for in the plan of Riverside Park The Park throughout its length of three miles…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 33 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 17 this point as to accommodate a large number of persons on foot and in carriages giving them an opportunity of looking out upon the river and watching the arrival and departure…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 34 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … Riverside 26 Jan 1874 Read in Board See Doc No 60 Jan 20 75 a comparison of Plans A B Contains a good exposition of the effects of grade on pleasure driving- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 35 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … WmBWoodin Ch Comm on Cities To Mr Woodin Chrm c Sir as the discussion going out of the proposed legislation in regard to the construction of the Avenues adjoining parks in this…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 36 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … To Mr Woodin Chrm S Com on Cit Statements of the views of the Department of Parks in regard to several matters connected with the proposed legislation re impact to the construction…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 37 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … as the law then stood the construction of Riverside Avenue lay with the Dept of Parks with the consent of the department of Parks a bill was introduced in the legislature designed…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 38 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … the draft of a provision which would effectively guard against the danger has been prepared and laid before the your Senate Committee pm Cities and this provision may be considered a piece…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 39 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … guarded against such objection by recommending the adoption of a provision which in the judgement of its legal advisors would secure place the rights of the city in this respect beyond danger…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873
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Image 40 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Parks; New York, N.Y.; Morningside, Riverside, … 3d That while it is possible for a division of the work to be made between the two departments it the whole can be carried on run currently and efficiently under the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1873