Editing Frederick Law Olmsted (section)

===U.S. park designer===
{{For|a more complete list of parks|List of Olmsted works}}

In 1865, he and Vaux formed Olmsted, Vaux & Co. When Olmsted returned to New York, he and Vaux designed [[Prospect Park (Brooklyn)|Prospect Park]]; the [[Planned community|planned]] Chicago suburb of [[Riverside, Illinois]]; the park system for [[Buffalo, New York]]; [[Milwaukee]]'s grand necklace of parks; and the [[Niagara Reservation]] at [[Niagara Falls]] and [[Belle Isle Park (Michigan)|Belle Isle]] in Detroit.

Olmsted conceived of entire systems of parks and interconnecting parkways to connect certain cities to green spaces. Some of the best examples of the scale on which he worked are the park system designed for Buffalo, one of the largest projects; the system he designed for Milwaukee, and the park system designed for [[Louisville, Kentucky]], which was one of only four completed Olmsted-designed park systems in the world.{{Citation needed|date=August 2013}}

{{For| a list of Olmsted-designed parks in Buffalo, New York | Buffalo, New York parks system}}
[[File:Frederick Law Olmsted.jpg|thumb|200px|right|''Frederick Law Olmsted'', oil painting by [[John Singer Sargent]], 1895, [[Biltmore Estate]], [[Asheville, North Carolina]] ]]
Olmsted was a frequent collaborator with architect [[Henry Hobson Richardson]], for whom he devised the landscaping schemes for half a dozen projects, including Richardson's commission for the [[Buffalo State Asylum]].<ref>Carla Yanni, The Architecture of Madness: Insane Asylums in the United States, University of Minnesota Press, 2007, pp. 127–139.</ref> In 1871, Olmsted and Vaux designed the grounds for the [[Hudson River State Hospital|Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane]] in [[Poughkeepsie]].<ref name="Farrell">{{cite web|url=https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/story/life/2019/08/14/photo-book-unveils-life-history-hudson-river-state-hospital/1997429001/|title=Through photographs, history of 'Hudson River State Hospital' unveiled|last=Farrell|first=Barbara Gallo|work=www.poughkeepsiejournal.com|date=August 14, 2019|access-date=August 14, 2019}}</ref>

In 1883, Olmsted established what is considered to be the first full-time landscape architecture firm in [[Brookline, Massachusetts]]. He called the home and office compound ''Fairsted''. It is now the restored [[Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site]]. From there Olmsted designed Boston's [[Emerald Necklace]], the campuses of [[Wellesley College]], [[Smith College]], [[Stanford University]] and the [[University of Chicago]], as well as the 1893 [[World's Fair]] in Chicago, among many other projects.

Olmsted was one of the planners of the [[National Zoological Park (United States)|National Zoo]] in Washington, D.C., which was founded in 1889.<ref>[https://www.tclf.org/landscapes/smithsonian-national-zoological-park Smithsonian National Zoological Park]</ref>