Biographical Notes 3 1 



1889: Henry Sargent Codman taken into partnership. 

 Firm name: F. L. Olmsted & Co. 



Advice to New York Department of Parks against 

 Speeding Track in Central Park. 



Advice on park matters given to Arlington, New- 

 ton, and Plymouth, Mass., and Providence, R.I. , 

 besides Boston and Brookline (Muddy River 

 improvement). Work for Leland Stanford, Gro- 

 ton School, Leake and Watts Orphan House, 

 memorial chapel at Falmouth, and B. & A. Welles- 

 ley station; Perry Park (Prospectus 1890) and 

 Lake Wauconda subdivisions near Denver, 

 "World's End" development on Boston Harbor, 

 numerous other subdivisions, and a large number 

 of private estates, including "Biltmore". 



Report on Central Park published: Observations 

 on the Treatment of Public Plantations, prepared 

 with J. B. Harrison at instance of West Side Im- 

 provement Association, New York City. 



Feb. 25 Read paper at Brookline Club: Our Roads and 

 What They are leading us to. 



April Advice to the Governor of Alabama in regard to 

 State Capitol grounds at Montgomery. 



June "Getting figures for marble fountain on Capitol 

 terrace " at Washington. Also visited Biltmore. 



Aug. 6 Addressed as Consulting Landscape Architect, 

 New York Department of Public Parks. 



S e p * r Asked to give his views on sites in New York City 

 for World's Columbian Fair, and aided movement 

 against proposed location in Central Park. 



