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Phillips Exeter Academy
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2023
News Release: In 1781, husband and wife Elizabeth and John Phillips established an educational institution in their home of Exeter, New Hampshire. Years later, as the campus prepared to expand into the twentieth century, the Board of Trustees contacted Olmsted Brothers to assist in siting a new library, auditorium, dormitories, and to accommodate increased enrollment.
Charles Russell Lowell
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2023
News Release: Charles Russell Lowell, Jr., was a US Army cavalry commander killed at the Battle of Cedar Creek in 1864. A monument in Middletown, Virginia, commemorates his sacrifice. He was promoted from colonel to brigadier general posthumously after the battle.
University of Alabama
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2023
News Release: In 1928, Olmsted Brothers were employed to perform a preliminary study for several of Alabama’s college campuses. That June, Alabama’s governor requested that an Olmsted representative visit each of the state’s colleges to estimate the cost of preparing a new campus plan. 36 total sites were visited, with the cost of the site visits totaling to $1,763.69.
Schlitz Brewery-Tied House
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2023
News Release: The Schlitz Brewery-Tied House, at 9401 South Ewing Avenue in Chicago, is a two-story brick brewery-tied house, consisting of a first floor tavern and second floor boarding house rooms. It is located within the commercial corridor of South Ewing Avenue in the East Side neighborhood, on the far Southeast...
University of Chicago
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2023
News Release: In 1902, Olmsted Brothers was asked to revise early campus plans to include a quadrangle. John Charles and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. recommended pathways leading to the center of campus, providing small vistas to University students and faculty.
Update for Virgin Islands National Park's Cruz Bay Visitor Center and Bulkhead Repairs
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2023
News Release: The next phase of repairs to the National Park Service’s Cruz Bay Visitor Center, bulkhead, and finger pier will begin on Tuesday, May 2, 2023.
Save the Date for Valles Caldera General Management Plan Open House Meetings
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2023
News Release: Jemez Springs, NM - The National Park Service is excited to announce three upcoming public open house meetings to share preliminary general management plan concepts for Valles Caldera National Preserve. The open house meetings will be held each day from 4 pm to 7 pm on May 22 in Española at the Misión y Convento, May 23 in Bernalillo at El Zócalo Plaza, and May 24 in Jemez Pueblo at the Walatowa Visitor Center.
Temporary road closure at Canyon Ferry Dam to help facilitate required maintenance and repairs
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2023
News Release: HELENA, Mont. - The Bureau of Reclamation will close access to all traffic across Canyon Ferry Dam on Montana State Highway 284, May 8-11, from 8 a.m.- 3 p.m. The temporary road closure will allow Reclamation to safely conduct operations necessary to complete project work on the dam infrastructure.
Pipestone National Monument Plans Prescribed Burn for Spring 2023
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2023
News Release: Pipestone National Monument plans to have a prescribed burn lasting one day during the period of April 24 - May 20, 2023. When appropriate wind, temperature, and humidity conditions exist within this date range, approximately 100 acres of the tall grass prairie will be burned.
Duke University
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2023
News Release: Once endowed in 1924, James B. Duke promised his university to be a beautiful, elite Southern campus to rival the colleges of the Northeast. While Duke had to whittle down a lengthy list of architects to one, Horace Trumbauer, there was only one landscape architecture firm he wanted designing his campus: Olmsted Brothers. Corresponding constantly with Trumbauer, Olmsted Brothers worked with the architect on the layout of buildings.
BLM Colorado solar lease bids for more than $200,000
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2023
News Release: CAÑON CITY, Colo. - The Bureau of Land Management’s Rocky Mountain District held a successful lease sale of the De Tilla Gulch solar energy zone at its Cañon City office. Pine Gate Renewables secured rights to develop utility scale solar energy on 1064 acres of BLM land in the San Luis Valley with a total winning bid of $200,744.88.
Summer Hours Begin May 1st
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2023
News Release: Canton, OH -. First Ladies National Historic Site in Canton Ohio will be open Tuesday - Saturday 9 am - 4 pm from May 1st through October 31. The Education Center is open and free of charge. The Education Center consists of three different museum exhibits, as well as a historic theater with a documentary...
Greenbrier Road and Porters Creek Trail open
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2023
News Release: GATLINBURG, Tenn.-Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced that Greenbrier Road, Porters Creek Trail, Brushy Mountain Trail, and campsites 31, 32, and 33 are now open to public use. Old Settlers Trail and Grapeyard Ridge Trail re-opened to public use earlier this month.
Parallel Lives and Deaths of Ramseur & Lowell
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2023
News Release: There are monuments to two Civil War army officers in Middletown, Virginia: Stephen Dodson Ramseur and Charles Russell Lowell. Both men died at the Battle of Cedar Creek in 1864. Foes on the battlefield, the two men lived and died in close parallel.
Haleakalā National Park Summit District Entrance Station
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2023
News Release: This entrance station will be your first stop when visiting the Summit District of Haleakalā National Park. From here, driving to the top of the mountain can take 30 minutes, depending on conditions.
Wellesley College
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2023
News Release: Frederick Law Olmsted Jr began his work at Wellesley College in 1902, providing a plan that accentuated the glacial topography of the area by grouping buildings on plateaus and edges, preserving the picturesque valleys. On his first visit to the campus, Olmsted Jr described the landscape as “not merely...
Biden-Harris Administration breaks ground on Boone Reach trunk line of Arkansas Valley Conduit
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2023
News Release: PUEBLO, Colo. - The Bureau of Reclamation today broke ground on the Boone Reach trunk line of the Arkansas Valley Conduit (AVC), a major infrastructure project under President Biden’s Investing in America agenda that will bring clean, reliable drinking water to 39 communities in southeastern Colorado.
BLM seeks input on two land acquisitions proposed in Boise Foothills
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2023
News Release: BOISE, Idaho - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is seeking public comment on a proposal to acquire two land parcels located in the Boise Foothills from the Treasure Valley Land Trust. The proposed purchase of 350 total acres would use Land and Water Conservation Fund money to acquire critical big game winter range, maintain open space and provide public access.
Otis Orchards School
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2023
News Release: In 1908, the Spokane Valley community of Otis Orchards built their “Cobblestone School" to replace their Territorial-era “Little White School on the Hill". Designing the fieldstone school was Kirtland Cutter, who frequently collaborated with the Olmsted’s. Three years later in 1911, Olmsted Brothers drew up preliminary plans for the landscape of the school, creating separate play areas for boys, girls, and younger children.
57 new American citizens from 23 countries sworn in at naturalization ceremony at Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
By Interior Newswire | Apr 29, 2023
News Release: THOUSAND OAKS, Calif.- On Thursday morning, 57 immigrants from 23 countries became United States citizens during a ceremony hosted by Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area (SMMNRA), a unit of the National Park Service, and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.