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Additional Reading

Olmsted Projects in Buffalo and Environs

Banham, Reyner, et al, Buffalo Architecture: A Guide (Cambridge, MA, 1981)

Beveridge, Charles A., et al, Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks (Baltimore, 2015) [Chapter 10 features the parks of Buffalo.]

Kowsky, Francis R., ed., The Best Planned City, The Olmsted Legacy in Buffalo (Buffalo, 1992)

Kowsky, Francis R., The Best Planned City In the World: Olmsted, Vaux and the Buffalo Park System (Amherst and Boston, 2013)

Olmsted Biography

Roper, Laura Wood, FLO, A Biography of Frederick Law Olmsted (Baltimore, 1973)

Olmsted’s Theory and Principles of Design

Kelly, Bruce, Art of the Olmsted Landscape (New York, 1981)

Schuyler, David, The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America (Baltimore and London, 1986)

Olmsted Reference

Beveridge, Charles A., et al, Frederick Law Olmsted: Plans and Views of Public Parks (Baltimore, 2015)

Beveridge, Charles A., et al, comp., The Master List of Design Projects of the Olmsted Firm, 1857-1950 (Boston, 1981)

Vaux Biography

Alex, William, Calvert Vaux: Architect and Planner (New York, 1994)

Kowsky, Francis R., Calvert Vaux, Landscape Architect (New York, to be released 12 May 2026)

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