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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.]

Conkling, Edgar C., Frederick Law Olmsted’s Point Chautauqua (Buffalo, NY, 2001)

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)

Schneecloth, Lynda, et al, Olmsted in Buffalo and Niagara (Buffalo, c. 2011)

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, 2026)

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