Jonathan Fisher
Where are you from? I’m from Richmond, VT and currently live in Boston, MA. Where do you/did you attend school? Share with us the city/town, what you are majoring in, what your […]
Record, Rehabilitate, Repeat: Repeat Photography at Longfellow
Visuals are some of the most powerful elements to preservation. Maps, photographs, plans and more provide clarity to those piecing together a landscape’s history and offer direction for the future. […]
Making a Map with ArcGIS Pro
Over the course of three weeks, the Olmsted Center staff and associates had the awesome opportunity to learn the basics of ArcGIS Pro through a training series created by OCLP’s […]
Tying the History to the Landscape: Creating StoryMaps for Longfellow’s Formal Garden
A critical moment in any given research is when you have finished the writing and are faced with communicating your findings to others. More often than not, this includes some […]
Developing a GIS Application for Vegetation Assessment and Maintenance
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park (SAGA) located in Cornish, New Hampshire was the summer home of the celebrated Gilded Age sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The park contains several notable historic landscapes, but […]
On Hemlock Hedges
The end of last week brought a major milestone in the Blow-Me-Down Farm Cultural Landscape Report project, which has occupied most of my time since starting with the Olmsted Center […]
It’s Holly Season!
If it seems too early to be thinking about the wonderful native evergreen, American holly (Ilex opaca), then you are definitely not a professional holly propagator.
Changing Significance: The Evolution of the Statue of Liberty
Taking a break from the Longfellow site, I’ve been working on portions of the upcoming Statue of Liberty Monument — Liberty Island cultural landscape report. In my perusing of the […]
Is the Milford Knob a Cultural Landscape?
In August of 2020, the office of Tribal and Cultural Affairs in Region 1 reached out to the Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation for the creation of a Technical Assistance […]
Greenhouses, Gardens, and GIS
Feeling cooped up at home? Get out to a park! I am grateful for a number of phenomenal site visits in the past few months, and I hope you feel […]
