Cruise east through the Esplanade, a green masterpiece designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.
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One living park fixture, Richard Kessler, is convinced Olmsted had Lincoln face north to defy proslavery tycoons in Manhattan.
The Biltmore experience begins with the dramatic three-mile-long Approach Road, one of landscape designer Frederick Law Olmsted's signature achievements.
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"It was the focal point of the original plan, " says Charles Beveridge, who has edited Olmsted's papers for 30 years.
Olmsted placed it on the commanding northern edge of his plaza's ellipse.
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The variety of landscapes and water features, the alternation of the seemingly wild with the obviously cultivated, all call to mind Olmsted's Central Park.
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That's when it was put up in the plaza the first time by Calvert Vaux and his partner Frederick Law Olmsted, the Lincoln partisan and landscaper of Prospect Park.
The war created a veritable "republic of suffering, " in the words that Frederick Law Olmsted chose to describe the wounded and dying arriving at Union hospital ships on the Virginia Peninsula.
Earlier this month, the SEC settled civil charges against hedge funds Langley Partners, North Olmsted Partners and Quantico Partners in a case alleging that they engaged in illegal trading of unregistered securities in a scheme involving naked short-selling.
They hired Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed Central Park, to create an open campus with no walls, vast gardens and thousands of palm and Coast Live Oak trees, and California mission-inspired sandstone buildings with red-tiled roofs.
We could've stared south at Canada, or crossed the bridge to Belle Isle, the island playland larger than Central Park, with elements designed by famed landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted and Detroit favorite Albert Kahn.
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