Way back in 2007, after learning that my friend Nat Edmunds was in possession of an original copy of the 1913 Huron River Improvement Plan drafted by influential landscape architects John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., I made a promise on this site that I’d figure out a way to get it scanned […]
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The Olmsted Brothers’ 1913 plan for Ypsi’s stretch of the Huron River
Posted in Architecture, History, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti | Also tagged Bonnie Wessler, Elizabeth Riggs, Frederick Law Olmsted, Huron River, Huron River Watershed Council, Janice Anschuetz, landscape architecture, Laura Rubin, Luna Lake, maps, Natalie Edmunds, Olmsted, Olmsted Brothers, Riverside Park, tridge, Ypsilanti Gleanings, Ypsilanti Historical Society, Ypsilanti Toboggan Slide Company | 13 Comments