| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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The Olmsted National Historic Site and the Growth of Historic Landscape Preservation. By David Grayson Allen. (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2007. x, 317 pp. $50.00, ISBN 978-1-55553-679-4.)

Established in 1979, the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site (NHS) in Brookline, Massachusetts, includes the home and offices of the nation's most famous landscape architect. After purchasing the house (built c. 1810) in 1883, Olmsted remodeled the buildings and grounds, naming the 1.75 acre complex Fairsted. After his death in 1903, his nephew and stepson, John Charles Olmsted, and John's brother, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., headed a landscape architecture firm there. The site was designated a national historic landmark in 1963. Unable to handle the deteriorating buildings, the vast archives, or the rising taxes, the last partner, Artemas Richardson, asked the National Park Service (NPS) in 1971 to acquire the site. Pushed by Olmsted-devotees in the American Society of Landscape Architects and spurred by public interest in Olmsted because, as a scholar noted, his career uniquely addressed "the three major crises of the late 1960s and 1970s—civil rights, urban needs, and environmental quality" (p. 23), Senator Edward Kennedy focused on Olmsted's endangered archives and drafted legislation in 1973 authorizing the site's acquisition.

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