Frederick Law Olmsted's farmhouse on Staten Island.

Good Things: Olmsted Farmhouse

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Amy Pearl
WNYC News | Apr 27, 2022

This week marks the 200th birthday of Frederick Law Olmsted, the famed landscape architect and designer of Central and Prospect Parks. WNYC’s Amy Pearl visited a little-known piece of Olmsted history on Staten Island: Olmsted-Beil House Park.

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