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Arboretum to memorialize landscaping great

The father of American landscape architecture will soon be memorialized at the North Carolina Arboretum.

A full-figure sculpture of Frederick Law Olmstead will be unveiled toward the end of this year in the arboretum’s Blue Ridge Court, in the core of the property, where the Johnston Pool — a circular water feature containing an American beach at its center — is located. 

Olmstead was the chief landscape architect for the Blue Ridge Parkway. He is credited for designing the scenic road in harmony with the mountains and for landscaping its entire 469-mile corridor in a way that evokes an idyllic experience.

Donors John and Muriel Siddal funded the sculpture.

www.ncarboretum.org

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