Manuscript/Mixed Material Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; 1875-1876
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Image 1 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … Frederick Law Olmsted SUBJECT FILE Public and State Buildings Albany NY State Capitol 187576 1- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 2 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … To Lt Gov Dorsheimer 19th July 1875 My dear Governor Under section 114 of the Charter of the city of N York any man accepting an office under the government of the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 3 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … if his attention is called to it not feel authorized to pay my salary Dorsheimer 19 July 1875 2 Nov 75 2 Nov The Hon William Dorsheimer Chairman of the new Capitol…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 4 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … Wm Dorsheimer 2 Nov 1875 Plan of streets wanted Albany 2d December 1875 The Hon William Dorsheimer Chairman of the New Capitol Commission Dear Sir The map and profile sent by received…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 5 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … may be placed showing the elevation of surface of the several street corners so far as these they same the same can be readily procured I should especially like figures of elevation…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 6 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … Dorsheimer Dec 275 Plan of streets wanted Albany Dear Sir I telegraphed you this morning asking when we could expect the tracings Mr Richardson arrived yesterday and was disappointed not to find…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 7 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 18th Dec 1875 My Dear Dorsheimer I have read yours of 12th Richardson promises to be here on Monday we will then agree when to go to Albany Eidlitz and I have…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 8 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … St Mr Dorsheimer My Dear Sir Dorsheimer 18th Dec 1875 about tracings Albany cap 1878 Whereas F L Olmsted Leopold Eidlitz and H H Richardson and have been professionally consulted by the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 9 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … traveling expenses stationary c and that the payment of such salary is in no way to be so construed as to make either or all of the parties to the firm of…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 10 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … Albany Cap LAWS OF NEW YORKâ By Authority Every law unless a different time shall be prescribed there shall commence and tal take ect effect throughout the State on and not before…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 11 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … VI PR REPORT OF THE ADVISORY BOARD FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED LEOPOLD EIDLITZ AND HENRY H RICHARDSON RELATIVE TO THE PLANS OF THE NEW CAPITOL Submitted to the New Capitol Commissioners March 3d…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 12 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … REPORT To the HON WILLIAM DORSHEIMER Chairman of the New Capitol Commission SIRâWe beg to submit the following report on various matters committed to us as a board of advice to your…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 13 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 4 SENATE On the meeting of the Legislature of 1875 it was found that after an outlay of over 5000000 the construction of the shell of the building had barely reached the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 14 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 6 SENATE upon which it has seemed to us necessary that you should have our evidence Considering the conditions under which this work has been carried on the number of men who…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 15 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 8 Senate The legislative halls on two stories and the Court of Appeals on one running through from wall to wall interrupt the arrangement which has been described and elsewhere light is…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 16 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 10 SENATE tons of economy fitness or utility of construction but to save the time and repetitions which on the one hand would be required for tracing out such a reference for…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 17 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … But all of the answer should not be found by examination in this way of the functions to be performed by the part scrutinized the fitness of its form to the character…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 18 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 14 SENATE is intended to have as a whole or which the larger feature is designed to have of which it is a part we must consider to be unfortunate That is…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 19 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 16 SENATE eye rest for a moment successively upon first the basement and the two stories immediately above it second at the uppermost story third at the east and west gables fourth…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 20 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 18 SENATE atus for the purpose has been used in the British Houses of Parlia ment and in the Capitol at Washington in both the complaints of unpleasant currents and of an…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 21 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 20 SENATE The RoofThe roof must have been planned in the first place less as a cover to the building than like the cupola as a means of obtaining a towering effect…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 22 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 22 SENATE for it What we consider as the better theory of approach under the circumstances better because less fatiguing is adopted but the dimensions of the parts are so contracted that…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 23 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 24 SENATE At the time these instructions were received an estimate for com pleting the building fitting furnishing exterior stairs etc not included would have stood at 710139394 We now estimate that…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 24 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 26 SENATE We recommend that the bottom of the roof should rest on the walls proper instead of on a parapet that there be a continuous gutter at the foot of the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 25 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 28 Senate be clear and lofty should be properly fitted for the orderly keeping of the documents and records of the State now scattered at various places of storage It is recommended…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 26 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 30 SENATE NO 49 Estimates of Work Not Contemplated in the Completed Plans Terrace exterior walks area walls etc 1046197 20 Decoration furniture interior fittings etc 400000 00 Elevators 120000 00 Park…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 27 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … VI R R State of New York No 49 In Senate March 3 1876 Report Of the New Capitol Commission Relative to the Plans Submitted by Messrs Frederick Law Olmstead Leopold Eidlitz…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 28 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … REPORT To the Hon WILLIAM DORSHEIMER Chairman of the New Capitol Commission SIR We beg to submit the following report on various matters committed to us as a board of advice to…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 29 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 4 SENATE tion which at the same time was effected of innumerable questions of convenience and of architectural adequacy and fitness On the meeting of the Legislature of 1875 it was found…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 30 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 6 SENATE on the number of men who have been directly employed upon it the manner in which it has been thought necessary by the adminis tration that they should be enlisted…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 31 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 8 SENATE to be traveled over than might otherwise be necessary and adding to the difficulty and expense of heating and of all house service It will however be obvious from what…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 32 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 10 SENATE of over twelve millions of dollars might have been placed upon it If simple convenience had been the sole or controlling object a much smaller sum might undoubtedly be made…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 33 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 12 SENATE lapping over a joint in the roof to make it weather tight We there fore indicate its sharp angular forms its brackets and mouldings resembling those into which stone is…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 34 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 14 SENATE It will be observed for instance that on each of its four sides it is divided into five parts by vertical lines the two outer and the middle parts standing…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 35 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 16 SENATE sistently with undivided regard for convenience be so formed and fitted in all respects that men entering it will be naturally impresed by a sense of the grandeur of the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 36 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 18 SENATE being ten feet in thickness and formed inside and out of cut granite Its height is 320 feet from the ground At a distance of ninetysix feet from the basement…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 37 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 20 SENATE The Interior Staircases In all buildings of which the principal apartments are above the ground floor it has hitherto been considered important in monumental architecture that the staircases should be…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 38 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 22 Senate VI As to What it Will Cost to Complete the Capitol According to the Plans of the Architect as Last Revised We have computed the quantities of all the various…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 39 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 24 SENATE The variation in the height of the walls thus obtained will in a great degree remove the objection of monotony on the two longer faces of the building The other…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
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Image 40 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; … 26 SENATE the floor of the lantern thence a single spiral stone staircase would lead to the uppermost deck The ceilings of the porticos are proposed to be supported by granite entablatures…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1875
About this Item
Title
- Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; Public buildings; Albany, N.Y., state capitol; 1875-1876
Names
- Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
Created / Published
- 1875 - 1876
Headings
- - United States Sanitary Commission
- - Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903--Correspondence
- - Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903--Friends and associates
- - Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903--Family
- - Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903--Homes and haunts
- - Olmsted, John Charles, 1852-1920--Correspondence
- - Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1870-1957--Correspondence
- - Vaux, Calvert, 1824-1895--Correspondence
- - Olmsted and Vaux (Firm: 1858)
- - Frederick Law Olmsted (Firm: 1858-1884)
- - F.L. and J.C. Olmsted (Firm : 1884-1889)
- - F.L. Olmsted and Company (Firm: 1889-1893)
- - Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot (Firm: 1893-1897)
- - F.L. and J.C. Olmsted (Firm : 1897-1898)
- - Olmsted Brothers (Firm: 1898-1961)
- - United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
- - Expositions
- - City planning
- - Conservation
- - Environmental protection
- - Landscape architecture
- - Parks--Design and construction
- - Regional planning
- - Slavery--Southern States
- - California--Gold discoveries
- - Central Park (New York, N.Y.)--History
- - Manuscripts
- - United States
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- Manuscripts
Call Number/Physical Location
- series: Subject File, 1857-1952
- mss35121, box 44; reel 39
Source Collection
- Frederick Law Olmsted papers
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- Manuscript Division
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- California
- Central Park (New York, N.Y.)
- City Planning
- Conservation
- Correspondence
- Design and Construction
- Environmental Protection
- Expositions
- F.L. And J.C. Olmsted (Firm)
- F.L. Olmsted and Company (Firm)
- Family
- Frederick Law Olmsted (Firm)
- Friends and Associates
- Gold Discoveries
- History
- Homes and Haunts
- Landscape Architecture
- Manuscripts
- Olmsted and Vaux (Firm: 1858)
- Olmsted Brothers (Firm)
- Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Olmsted, John Charles
- Olmsted, Olmsted, and Eliot (Firm)
- Parks
- Regional Planning
- Slavery
- Southern States
- United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.)
- United States Sanitary Commission
- Vaux, Calvert