" 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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The Runwell Hospital in Wickford was founded as a Psychatiatric Hospital by the Minister of Health ... It was bombed by the Air Force in World War II en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runwell_H…
"From 1958 at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Vol. 3 of AN ORAL HISTORY OF NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY,
THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS
Thomas A. Ban (series editor)
Development of neuropharmacology was triggered in the 1950s by the serendipitous discovery of the first set of effective psychotropic drugs 🤔 acnp.org/wp-content/upl…
Julius Axelrod : "All radioactivity was in the sympathetic nerves, localized over dense core granules in little vesicles. We suspected these little vesicles were the storage place for noradrenaline. We also studied the distribution of noradrenaline with Hans Weil-Malherbe ..
a German biochemist who did a lot of work on the biochemistry of mental illness. He left Germany during the Nazi regime and he developed methods in England for measuring adrenaline" bioc.cam.ac.uk/about-us/histo…
"Until Abigail married Wexner,she was an attorney at the law firm of Davis,Polk & Wardwell.
Specifically, the office located in London—an 8 minute drive to JPMorgan’s offices in London..where Jes Staley worked in various roles from 1979 to 2013"
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"Using its provisions, Postmaster General Walter Folger Brown held a meeting with the executives of the top airlines, later dubbed the "Spoils Conference", in which the airlines effectively divided among themselves the air mail routes".. 🎶 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Mail_…
Kety : "It was then I thought there was a better way of separating the environmental from the genetic factors and that would be the study of adopted individuals who developed schizophrenia."..
"In order to do this, I decided that one would need a national study & I suggested this in the review I published in 1959. I laid out the strategy one could use for studying the distribution of schizophrenia in the biological & the adoptive families of
adopted schizophrenics,"🎶