" Stanford faculty may “purchase a leasehold interest.” Buyers sign a “ground lease” with the university, and then faculty members pay rent to Stanford ..
This unique structure dates to the university’s founding by Leland and Jane Stanford.."
Olmsted is often referred to as the “father of landscape architecture in America,” and is best known for New York’s Central Park, which he co-designed with architect and landscape designer Calvert Vaux ..
Olmsted knew William Henry Vanderbilt, George Vanderbilt’s father, when they both lived on Staten Island, and the designer had already worked on several Vanderbilt family projects when George Vanderbilt approached him in 1888 to advise on the first 2,000 acres of his NC property
"Plans for both Biltmore House and its surrounding landscape changed in 1889 when Vanderbilt and architect Richard Morris Hunt toured France together and the scale of Vanderbilt’s new estate expanded..
Thank goodness that Biltmore page was archived: archive.is/9406k
Prior to becoming a landscape architect, Olmsted was first a seaman, farmer, then a journalist and founder of The Nation magazine, which still exists today. .
Portrait of Frederick Law Olmsted by John Singer Sargent
During the Civil War, he served as Executive Secretary of the U.S. Sanitary Commission (a precursor to the Red Cross). 👀
Frederick Law Olmsted was a freemason of course - The George Washington National Memorial gwmemorial.org/pages/architec…
The landscaping of the Memorial grounds was done by the renowned Olmstead Brothers firm. Founded by Frederick Law Olmsted—who designed the grounds of the
United States Capitol in Washington, D.C., New York City’s Central Park, the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina, and the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago .. architecture.org/learn/resource…
The grounds of the Memorial were specifically designed by an Olmsted employee named Carl Rust Parker, one of the most renowned American landscape architects and a member of the Masonic Fraternity. tclf.org/pioneer/carl-r…
The Memorial’s form was inspired by the lighthouse of Alexandria, Egypt, one of the ancient Seven Wonders of the World, and its design reflects the classical architecture of Greece and Rome.
Shelburne Farms is an education center for sustainability, created in 1886 by Dr. William Seward Webb and Eliza Osgood Vanderbilt Webb as a model agricultural estate, using money inherited from railroad magnate William Henry Vanderbilt. They commissioned Frederick Law Olmsted
Lola Van Wagenen is on the board of directors of Shelburne Farms
her first husband was Robert Redford (1958-1985)
1975 to 1977, Van Wagenen developed The Sun Fund
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In 1978, she organized SunDay in New York with the UN
Slave Gardens : encyclopedia.com/humanities/app…
Frederick Law Olmsted explained that slaves on a South Carolina plantation were "at liberty to sell whatever they choose from the products of their own garden"
Revisiting Olmsted's legacy may prove interesting..considering ...
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Yesterday , Grok could find no public records on the mysterious Richard A. Rothschild ..
Today, it gave me an address, listed with some of his patents ..
According to Grok, "no evidence of any professional, personal, legal, artistic, or activist connection emerges between Paolo Cirio and these individuals [ Richard A. Rothschild and/or Robin S. Slomkowski ]".
Grok : Stuart Pivar inherited a substantial fortune from the family plastics business .., which funded his lifelong art collecting, the founding of the New York Academy of Art (with Andy Warhol in 1979), and his later pursuits in theoretical biology (Lifecode).
" Stuart Pivar was the primary founder and financial backer of the New York Academy of Art , and Andy Warhol was his high-profile co-founder and public face..
Key Facts About the Founding :
Idea and money: Pivar , flush with cash from selling his family’s plastics business, wanted to create a graduate school that would bring back rigorous classical training in drawing, painting, and sculpture ..
" Synesthesia is actively studied at institutions like MIT, particularly through interdisciplinary projects at the MIT Media Lab. One prominent example is the "Digital Synesthesia" initiative ..
which explores how to simulate or extend synesthetic-like experiences via technology to enhance human perception beyond natural sensory limits,eg. interfacing computers with multisensory data for broader environmental awareness" media.mit.edu/projects/digit…
MIT's involvement extends to publishing foundational and ongoing scholarship on synesthesia through the MIT Press, including Richard E. Cytowic's 2018 primer Synesthesia (with a 2025 edition highlighting its spectrum-like nature across brain pathways) thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/a-brief-200-ye…
Grok : "Adding an immersive digital ecosphere, like VR environments synced to trance rhythms, could amplify the MDMA-trance combo into hyper-real altered states, where visuals morph with beats for total sensory envelopment and ego-blurring unity...🤔
Beginning in 2020, he organized efforts against COVID-19 pandemic restrictions with the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER), and in 2021 he founded Brownstone Institute think tank to continue such efforts."
As of 2021, he is Chief Liberty Officer of *. He is an adjunct scholar with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, a research affiliate of Blockchain Innovation Hub of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, & an Acton Institute associate."