![]() ![]() ![]() In this vein, we also welcome proposals that take landscapes up to the present, knowing that while the firm left Fairsted in 1979, their designed landscapes continued to evolve. projects reworked or continued by subsequent members of the firm. Competitive research proposals could focus on a project (or set of projects) begun after 1903, or they could focus on earlier Olmsted Sr. A project might focus on subsequent generations of principals or explore the unseen hands that supported them, including draftsmen, model makers, blueprinters, horticulturalists, and the clerical department, which was almost exclusively run by the only women in the firm. THIS YEAR’S THEMEįollowing a year of national focus on Olmsted Sr.’s legacy during his bicentennial, this year we seek research proposals examining work executed by other members of the firm, particularly from the period following Olmsted Sr.’s retirement in 1895 until the firm sold the Fairsted property to the National Park Service in 1979. The Beveridge Fellowship supports research and projects utilizing the Olmsted Archives at Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site and the continued development of scholarship related to the Olmsted firm’s legacy. Beveridge, series editor of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted and devoted friend of Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site and its archives and collections. Beveridge Research Fellowship honors the eminent scholar, Charles E. ![]()
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