The Connecticut River Walk in Forest Park, in Springfield, Mass., one of many parks designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, who’s considered the father of American landscape architecture. His most famous work is New York’s Central Park. Forest Park, at 735 acres, is one the largest urban parks in American and dates from the late 19th Century, when Springfield was a major manufacturing center.
“Service must precede art. So long as considerations of utility are neglected or overridden by considerations of ornament, there will not be true art.’’
— Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), landscape architect
