" 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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"There is a widely circulated video showing Homer Simpson behind Donald Trump on an escalator, which many people mistakenly believe was a Murdoch-era prediction of Trump’s presidency ..
"Justin Waller said he moved his family from Louisiana to South Florida so he could work on his influencing career, but also to grow closer to Trump’s “inner circle.”..🎶
Nov, 2025 , OCCRP
"Sun, Cigars, and Sexism: How Spain's Marbella Became a Hotspot for 'Manosphere' Influencers " occrp.org/en/feature/sun…
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" Tristan and his brother Andrew Tate remain influential figures at the center of the so-called manosphere ..
The British-American Tate bros also face criminal charges for human trafficking and rape in the U.K. and are being criminally investigated in Romania for trafficking🎶
"Billionaires bolt from Bill Gates’ scandal-scarred Giving Pledge as critics brand it ‘Epstein-adjacent’ ..The Post has sought comment from Gates, French Gates, Thiel, Ellison, Armstrong and Buffett."
What about Jack Dangermond who is in the Epstein files?
" Dangermond’s name appears on an email chain regarding the agenda for a conference called "www," which was hosted at Esri’s headquarters in Redlands, California."
Jeffrey Epstein sponsored this event and attended it in person. He was invited by the event's creator, Richard Saul Wurman (the founder of TED), who was a close associate of Epstein and a long-time professional acquaintance of Dangermond ."..
"Kemi Badenoch has branded an article in the Guardian 'disgusting' - after it claimed the opening of a Gail's bakery near a Palestinian cafe is 'heavy-handed aggression'."
Ms Badenoch has now waded in on the debate, telling the Jewish News it is 'extraordinary that Gail’s bakeries are being attacked now, supposedly because they are Israeli-owned'."..
The Guardian article features an interview with the Palestinian owners of Cafe Metro, Faten and Mahmoud, in Archway, north London - where a new branch of Gail's was recently established." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…