28 Frederick Law Olmsted 



Sep. 23 Wrote to Boston Park Commissioners on lay-out 

 of a park at West Roxbury (later Franklin Park). 



D e c ' r Asked to be one of two experts to conduct the first 

 Civil Service examination in landscape gardening 

 given by New York Department of Public Parks 

 for position "superintendent of gardening." 



1885: Work for City of Boston (Back Bay, Wood Island, 

 West Roxbury Parks, and Massachusetts Avenue), 

 Town of Brookline (new street lay-out Harvard 

 Street — Aspinwall Avenue region), Amherst and 

 Smith Colleges, Groton and Lawrenceville Schools, 

 Boston and Albany Railroad (Palmer and 

 Wellesley Hills), McLean Asylum, Cairn Memorial 

 at North Easton, Billings Library at Burlington, 

 and fifteen or twenty private clients. 



1886: List of clients during the year includes: U. S. 

 Capitol, Niagara, Stanford University, a Society 

 at Amherst, Lawrenceville School, Groton School, 

 McLean Asylum, Newport Hospital (land sub- 

 division), Rotch Memorial Chtuch, B. & A. Palmer 

 Station, Brookline Country Club, Boston and 

 Buffalo Parks, Bridgeport Park, New York River- 

 side Park, a half dozen land subdivisions in Brook- 

 line (including Beacon Street region) and Buffalo, 

 Vanderbilt Tomb, Andrew Carnegie, and about 

 thirty other private clients. 



Report : Notes on the Plan of Franklin Park and 

 related matters, printed. 



Mar. 16 Had just been to Lenox where he had "been ad- 

 vising a Vanderbilt colony." 



