Frederick Law Olmsted is considered the Father of American Landscape Architecture.

 www.olmsted200.org

Come and celebrate the 200th Birthday of the
founder ofAmerican Landscape Architecture a
noted park builder, garden designer,
environmentalist and planner whose Landscape
Architecture firm worked across the country
rom the 1850’s to 1979.
April 26 at 3:30 The Baton Rouge Botanical
Garden and the East Baton Parish Main Library
will hold an Olmsted 200 Celebration of
Landscape Architecture in honor of Mr. Olmsted.
Tentative Program
3:30-4:00 Olmsted’s Legacy, Buck Abbey
Botanic Garden Board Member and landscape
architect and retired professor LSU School of
Landscape Architecture will tell the story
4:00-5:00 A Collegium of Local Landscape
Architects and Professors discuss Olmsted’s Life
and Works. American Soceity of Landscape
Architects
5:00-5:30 Presentation of Student Projects LSU School of Landscape
Architecture
5:45 Ceremonial Dedication and Planting of an Orange Island Live Oak from Live
Oak Gardens Nursery of New Iberia, Louisiana