Manuscript/Mixed Material Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., 1872 , undated
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Image 1 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … Frederick Law Olmsted SUBJECT FILE School Buildings and Grounds Trinity College Hartford Conn 1872 UD- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Image 2 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … To the Reverend Doctor Jackson President of Trinity College Mr President I have the honour to report to you from the question of the fitness of ten sites which have been suggested…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Image 3 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … to build more and larger structures than could be satisfactorily placed upon any good building ground which they present 2nd that in neither of them would the college hold adequate security in…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Image 4 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … The difficulties already experienced at Yale College in particular from this cause are such and the prospect of much greater difficulties is so near that the question of a complete abandonment of…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Image 5 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … to the college lies between a large body of additional land lying situated in what had previously been regarded as the rear of all has during the last year been acquired and…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Image 6 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … for the second time within twenty years As to the second objection to the seven sites which without qualification I advise you to reject no one would for a moment think of…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Image 7 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … large manufacturing town But if a situation open to these objections is clearly to be rejected a situation in which they would be quite sure to arise is also as a matter…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Image 8 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … then that it is an established requirement of a site 1st that it should present a space of fair building ground several times larger than will be needed for the buildings the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Image 9 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … high purpose of training leaders of society The three sites which would be admissible to consideration under this rule may be distinguished as the Blue Hills site the Rocky Hill site and…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Image 10 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … Each presents a fair and spacious building surface in which respect there is little room for choice among them There is nothing objectionable in the soil of either That of the Blue…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Image 11 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … will somewhat injure them The distant prospects from the Thrall site are of much less value than those from either of the others the summit of Prospect Hill from which the distant…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Image 12 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … circumstance especially where the site of a seat of learning is concerned There is in Architecture and in the relation and combination of buildings with each other and with the elements of…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Image 13 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … With the date for a sound judgment in this respect I can not be a familiar as is desirable I shall therefore indicate my impression with diffidence and indecisively If you should…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Image 14 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … planted with trees in groups having been laid out with ample borders for this purpose From experience elsewhere I have no doubt that the market value of the lots would in five…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Image 15 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … others and I should suppose that the mere money return for outlay would be larger and that the object of a suitable neighborhood for the college would be sooner and more surely…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Image 16 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … able kind of neighborhood I am Sir Your Obedient Servant New York May 25th 1872- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Image 17 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … plots G to be subdivided into building sites for dwellings The wheel wraps A border of perhaps fifty feet in length is intended to be It In the plan to be proposed…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Image 18 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … The rider A There is but one position in which The only the depth of the quadrangles proposed by Mr Burgess is greater The The quad There is no part of the…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Image 19 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … To the Trustees of Trinity College Hartford Connecticut Gentlemen Herewith you will receive a topographical map of the your property on Rocky Hill prepared by Mr G K Radford C E together…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Image 20 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … about 5 or 6 feet in depth and the western side walls will would be crowded some what closely what more closely than is desirable toward the western boundary of the fort…- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Image 21 of Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, … Trinity Col- Contributor: Olmsted, Frederick Law
- Date: 1872
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Title
- Frederick Law Olmsted Papers: Subject File, 1857-1952; School buildings and grounds; Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., 1872 , undated
Names
- Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
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
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- series: Subject File, 1857-1952
- mss35121, box 46; reel 41
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- 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