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 Issue of April 17, 2006 
   

Olmsted’s Vision Lives in Boston

RONALD HOMER
is chief executive officer of Access Capital Strategies in Cambridge.
By Ronald A. Homer
April 26 is the 184th anniversary of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, perhaps America’s most revered landscape architect. Olmsted, based in Brookline, worked across the country from Boston to Seattle. His designs include Central Park, the Niagara Reservation in Niagara Falls, the landscape surrounding the U.S. Capitol building and the Hub park system known as the Emerald Necklace.

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