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By Jackie Couture
Collection Overview
Scope and Contents of the Materials
This is an artificial collection composed of copies of correspondence between Eastern Kentucky University representatives and the Olmsted Associates of Brookline, Massachusetts regarding future building and landscaping plans for Eastern. The original records are housed at the Library of Congress and at the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site which is part of the National Park Service. It also includes one surviving watercolor drawing of a plan of Eastern's campus.
Subject/Index Terms
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Folder:
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Folder 1: Correspondence, 1908-1914],
[Folder 2: Correspondence, 1923-1927],
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Folder 3: Correspondence, 1959],
[
Folder 4: Landscape Plan, 1926],
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All]
- Folder 2: Correspondence, 1923-1927
- Correspondence between Olmsted and Eastern representatives regarding campus plans. There appears to have been a period of fifteen years when Eastern did not use the Olmsted firm. The first letter in this folder is from Thomas J. Coates requesting Olmsted’s services to help integrate a new purchase of land into the campus plan. Many of the letters and reports discuss Plan 35, which is the only extant plan in Eastern’s collection.
