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Project City State or province Date Arnold Arboretum: Boston: Massachusetts: 1877 Back Bay Fens, Arborway and Riverway: Boston: Massachusetts: 1890s–1900 Bayard Cutting Arboretum State Park: Great River: New York, on Long Island: Beardsley Park: Bridgeport: Connecticut: 1884 Belle Isle Park: Detroit: Michigan: master plan and landscape in the ...
From there Olmsted designed Boston's Emerald Necklace, the campuses of Wellesley College, Smith College, Stanford University and the University of Chicago, as well as the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago, among many other projects. Olmsted was one of the planners of the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., which was founded in 1889. [25]
The Emerald Necklace consists of a 1,100-acre (4.5 km 2; 450 ha) chain of parks linked by parkways and waterways in Boston and Brookline, Massachusetts. It was designed by landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted , and gets its name from the way the planned chain appears to hang from the "neck" of the Boston peninsula .
An 836-pound “cursed” emerald worth nearly $1 billion will be returned to Brazil after 15 years under lock and key in Los Angeles. The 180,000-carat Bahia Emerald was smuggled out of the South ...
The dazzling rock features a center emerald-cut diamond flanked with half moon diamonds. With the platinum band boasting 18 brilliant-cut diamonds, all the stones totaled approximately 4 carats.
Bracelet; 1st–2nd century AD; gold-mounted crystal and sardonyx; length: 19.69 centimetres (7.75 in); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Los Angeles) Necklace with a medallion depicting a goddess; 30–300 AD; green glass (the green beads) and gold; length: 43.82 centimetres (17.25 in); Los Angeles County Museum of Art