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Mount Royal Beaver Lake (Lac des castors), on the top of the Mount Royal   Frederick Law Olmsted  
Mount Royal (French: Mont Royal) is a hill on the Island of Montreal, immediately north of downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the city to which it gave its name. The mountain is part of the Monteregian Hills situated between the Laurentians and...
Mountain View Cemetery Panoramic view from the rear of the cemetery, looking out across the San Francisco Bay Cemetery Frederick Law Olmsted  
The Mountain View Cemetery is a large cemetery in Oakland, California. It was established in 1863 by a group of East Bay Pioneers under the California Rural Cemetery Act of 1859. The association they formed still operates the cemetery today....
Ocean Parkway Ocean Parkway runs through Brooklyn Location Frederick Law Olmsted  
Ocean Parkway is a broad boulevard and associated neighborhood in the west central portion of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Ocean Parkway extends over a distance of about five miles (100 city blocks), running almost north to south from...
Piedmont Park Piedmont Park   Frederick Law Olmsted  
Piedmont Park is the "Central Park" of Atlanta, Georgia, located in Midtown, north of the city center. Originally the land was owned by Dr. Benjamin Walker, who used it as his out-of-town gentleman's farm and residence. He sold the land in 1887 to...
Riverside Drive The park side under record snowfall in the Blizzard of February 2006   Frederick Law Olmsted  
Riverside Drive is a scenic north-south thoroughfare in the New York City borough of Manhattan. The boulevard runs generally parallel to the Hudson River from 72nd Street to near the George Washington Bridge at 181st Street on the west side of...
Jackson Park     Frederick Law Olmsted  
Jackson Park is a 500 acre (2 km²) park on Chicago's South Side officially located at 6401 S. Stony Island Avenue in the Woodlawn community area. It extends into the South Shore and Hyde Park community area, bordering Lake Michigan and several South...
Prospect Park The Long Meadow's grass stretches wide for relaxation and recreation   Frederick Law Olmsted 1873
Prospect Park is a 585 acre (2.4 km²) public park in the New York City borough of Brooklyn located between Park Slope, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, Kensington, Windsor Terrace and Flatbush Avenue, Grand Army Plaza and the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and...
Calvert Vaux
Cherokee Park   Frederick Law Olmsted  
Cherokee Park is a 409-acre (1.6 km²) municipal park located in Louisville, Kentucky, United States. It was designed, like 18 of Louisville's 123 public parks, by Frederick Law Olmsted, the father of landscape architecture. Beargrass Creek runs...
Central Park Central Park, like all parks, is an example of landscape architecture Location Frederick Law Olmsted 1873
Central Park is a large public, urban park (843 acre, 3.41 km², 1.32 mi²; a rectangle 2.6 statute miles by 0.5 statute mile, or 4.1 km × 830 m) in the borough of Manhattan in New York City, almost 4/5 of the size of Vancouver's Stanley Park and just...
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Grand Army Plaza The Soldiers' and Sailors' Archat Grand Army Plaza Building Frederick Law Olmsted  
Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York is an oval plaza that forms the main entrance to Prospect Park. It was designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux in 1867. It consists of concentric rings arranged as streets, with the outer ring being...
Calvert Vaux
Alnwick Castle Alnwick Castle, from the east, across the pastures and the River Aln House    
Alnwick Castle is a castle and stately home in Alnwick, Northumberland, England and the residence of the Duke of Northumberland, built immediately following the Norman conquest, and renovated and remodelled a number of times. It is a Grade I listed...
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The Pastures at Alnwick Castle     Capability Brown    
Richmond Park A corner of the Isabella Plantation in Richmond Park Location    
Richmond Park is a 955 hectare (2,360 acre) urban park near central London, UK. Almost three times larger than New York City's Central Park, it is Britain's largest urban walled park, as well as the largest of the Royal Park in London. It is close...
Villa d'Este The Neptune Fountain (foreground) and Water Organ (background) in the gardens at the Villa d'Este Listed Site Pirro Ligorio 1550
The Villa d'Este is a villa situated at Tivoli, near Rome. Listed as a UNESCO world heritage site, it is a masterpiece of Italian architecture and especially garden design. The Villa d'Este was commissioned by Cardinal Ippolito II d'Este (1509...
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Stowe House Capability Brown  
Stowe is a village and also a civil parish within Aylesbury Vale in Buckinghamshire, England. It is the location of Stowe House, a Grade I listed country house, and Stowe School, which occupies the mansion. It is situated about two mile north...
Structure Humphry Repton
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Hadrian's Villa The villa's recreation of Canopus, a resort near Alexandria, as seen from the temple of Serapis Listed Site    
The Hadrian's Villa (Villa Adriana in Italian) is a large Roman archaeological complex at Tivoli, Italy. The villa was created at Tibur (modern-day Tivoli) as a retreat from Rome for Roman Emperor Hadrian in the early 2nd century. Hadrian was said...
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Vigeland Sculpture Park Sculptures Location Gustav Vigeland  
Vigeland Sculpture Park is a part of Frogner Park, located in Oslo, Norway, 3 km northwest of the city centre. The park covers 80 acres and features 212 bronze and granite sculptures created by Gustav Vigeland. Vigeland personally sculpted every...