Manuscript/Mixed Material Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, Amherst, Mass., 1870 , 1883
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Image 1 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … Frederick Law Olmsted SUBJECT FILE School Buildings Grounds Amherst College 1870 1883
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 2 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … Olmsted Vaux Co Landscape Architects No 110 Broadway NEW YORK Chicago April 5th 1870 W A Stearns DP President Amherst College Dear Sir Upon mature consideration I find it impossible to recommend…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 3 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … buildings which belong to the college corporation on the west side of the village green do not in the least appear as a part of the College Architecturally speaking it is the…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 4 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … on the brow of a hill standing detached from the village and were made to front so as to appear to the best advantage from the direction in which they would first…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 5 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … The buildings which have been recently added to the college series are much finer and make much more impression upon the mind of an observer That the old ones which consequently and…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 6 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … or walks connecting the two bodies of buildings must be laid out mainly in a direction diagonal to their fronts wth which will still further tend to produce an effect of disunity…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 7 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … now on the right of the angular entrance from the village take the character of a quiet pleasure ground in connection with the old village green of which it was originally a…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 8 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … sing appropriate and beautiful relation to all the neighboring buildings and the surrounding landscapes F L Olmsted 13 to Prof Stearns April 5 1870 Amherst College Position of chapel
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 9 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … VII Is this Amherst College dupl or MAC Page 78 June 30th 1870 WA Dickenson Amherst Dear Sir as I am about leaving for the West I receive your favor of 29th…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 10 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … Brookline Mass 14th July 1883 To The Trustees of Amherst College DearSirs At the request of Mr Pratt I have considered the question of a site for the proposed new gymnasium Of…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 11 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … The third site proposed is that nearest the Church and the question of dealing with the ground at this point is closely connected with that of dealing with the church which being…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 12 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … which the church would be subordinated and put out of countenance The church under the view of of the future of the college which as of determined its position is to stand…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 13 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … small the more distinctly it appears from all sides to stand upon an eminence of its own ______ a pedistal the greater will be not its individual dignity alone but the dignity…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 14 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … The church though relatively to others a small building is now and is likely long to remain the most monumental beautiful and expressive member of the college group in front of which…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 15 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … pedestal this being done if a building not too large and not of a character to come into competition with the church architecturally is place beyond the slope of the church knoll…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 16 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … facing the south flank of the same depression I have set stakes where that would occur at a distance of fifty yards from the nearest point of the church for this position…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 17 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … for this position I have set stakes suggestively of the position it might occupy This would Were it a question of a much larger building or one of much more architectural display…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 18 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … I should not think so The second site opposite Walker Hall will be better reserved for any larger building that may be required in the future Assuming that it will by and…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 19 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … present surface on the South West of the church be reduced in such a manner as to form by a gentle double curve a branch of the cursive valley of the grounds…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 20 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … which the College Church now the most beautiful and significant structure on the hill would be dignified and put out of countenance When the East College shall have been removed considerable grading…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 21 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … the developmnt and vitality of their juniors and also with a view to additional plantings A succession of trees should be provided for Such trees as have been planted within any recent…
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870
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Image 22 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Amherst College, … Amherst College 14 July 83 The pedestal Amherst College 14 July 1883 F L O report VII A
- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1870