To mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of renowned landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr, the Newberry Library is hosting a seminar on “Olmsted in Chicago: Iconic Greenspaces and the 1893 White City.” The online seminar will run for three Thursday sessions from 6-8pm on October 6, 13, and 20. Hosting the sminar will be Julia Bachrach, consulting historian and preservationist and author of The City in a Garden: A History of Chicago’s Parks, and Rebecca S. Graff, Associate Professor of Anthropology and archaeologist and author of Disposing of Modernity: The Archaeology of Garbage and Consumerism During Chicago’s 1893 World’s Fair. The class will explore the Olmsteds’ local contributions and illuminate the ways in which their fascinating designs have impacted generations of Chicagoans and Americans.
Register through the Newberry Library adult education program.
