Greenwich's Missing Olmsted Park
2 March 2005 - 11:00am
A Parks and Recreation manager discovers an original Olmsted plan for a local park.
"Bruce Spaman was at his desk one day when a fellow Department of Parks and Recreation employee walked in, toting an armload of old maps destined for the trash --unless Spaman wanted them. ...Later, when he began unfurling some of the maps, Spaman found a connection to the legendary landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted.
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Greenwich Time, February 27, 2005
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