LECTURE BY HISTORIAN - JENNIFER OTT

Amid galloping growth at the turn of the 20th century, Seattle’s city leaders seized on the confluence of a roaring economy with the City Beautiful movement to hire the Olmsted Brothers landscape architecture firm to design a park and parkway system. Their 1903 plan led to a supplemental plan, a playground plan, numerous park and boulevard designs, changes to park system management, and a ripple effect, as the Olmsted Brothers were hired to design public and private landscapes throughout the region. The park system shaped Seattle’s character and continues to play a key role in the city’s livability today.

Join author and environmental historian, Jennifer Ott, for a talk about the Olmsted Brothers work in Seattle, and the life of the park system they created. This talk is based on Ms. Ott’s book, Olmsted in Seattle: Creating a Park System for a Modern City.

Jennifer is executive director of HistoryLink, co-authored, Waterway: The Story of Seattle’s Locks and Ship Canal, with David B. Williams, and served as the general editor and contributing author for, Seattle at 150: Stories of the City Through 150 Objects from the Seattle Municipal Archives. She is the chair of the Volunteer Park Trust and past president of Friends of Seattle’s Olmsted Parks.

DATE: THURSDAY, JUNE 27th

TIME: 4:00 p.m. (PST)

LOCATION: WEBINAR

ADMISSION FREE: OPEN TO PUBLIC

REGISTRATION: pending, provided soon