" 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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Some of Cambridge’s most brilliant mathematical minds were tangled up with the Cambridge University Science Fiction (and Fantasy) Society (CUSFS), and they birthed one of the most legendary, bizarre "gaming clubs" in history.
"Powered by US money and far-right European think tanks, Cambridge has recently become an outpost of a peculiar blend of national conservatism and apocalyptic Christianity, through the figure of James Orr – Head of Policy at Reform UK described as Nigel Farage’s “Kingmaker“."
Byline Times can now reveal that with the behind-the-scenes support of Peter Thiel — Trump backer and co-founder of Palantir Technologies — Orr has used Cambridge University as a recruitment ground to bring students into a hard-right, theocratic political project ..
The Telegraph :
" Alex Jones was, to many, a figure of fun with an amusing predilection for tearing the shirt from his own back when riled up. But Jones crossed a line when he said that the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting .. was a hoax."🤔
"Jones was sued by some of the families, and members of the emergency services, for defamation and, in 2022, was ordered to pay $1.5bn (£1.3bn) in damages." archive.is/6icGH
"To settle his debt, Infowars was put up for sale... in November 2024, Global Tetrahedron ,the parent company of satirical outlet The Onion, emerged as the winning bidder for the conspiracy outlet at bankruptcy auction."
It was formed in 2024 by former Twilio CEO Jeff Lawson 🤔
GG : "Parishes like HTB historically funneled unmarried pregnant women out of their local wealthy London neighborhoods and into these hidden regional church-run homes to avoid community gossip and preserve "respectability""🤔