Geocache Identification Permit Approval Number:ASP20190930120
Permit Expires on:09/30/22
The Olmsted Brothers cache is located along the Allamuchy Pond Trail which is located along the grounds of Rutherfurd Hall, one of the last extant large country estates in New Jersey.
The Rutherfurd - Stuyvesant geocache series give an in depth history of this important and distinguished american family and the gilded age in NJ. There are two locations showcased in the geotrail. The Stuyvesant Mansion and Rutherfurd Mansion located within Tranquility Farms massive estate was divided by the construction on interstate 80.
Mansion
To design their landscape, the Rutherfurds turned to the Olmsted Brothers, the premier landscape architecture firm in the United States. The brothers were the sons and successors of the “father of landscape architecture,” Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr.
Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. was impressed by English parks and landscapes, and as a designer he became known for creating American pastoral landscapes. He designed in a naturalistic style with planting masses arranged on sweeping lawns to frame views.
His designs included reflective ponds and streams, gently undulating ground forms, and gracefully winding paths and drives. The style was picturesque, informal, asymmetrical and naturalistic, and created soothing places where the art of nature was controlled and displayed.
Olmsted completed hundreds of designs including New York's Central Park, Brooklyn's Prospect Park, the Emerald Necklace in Boston, the U.S. Capitol grounds, and many college campuses including Fairleigh Dickinson in New Jersey.
As a planner/designer, he designed neighborhoods like Riverside near Chicago, Forest Park in Queens, and Highland Park in Rochester. And, as the preeminent landscape designer in the United States, he designed country estates during the Country Place Era, with the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina as his most famous.
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