Article • Olmsteds: Landscapes and Legacies

The Olmsted Brothers 1918 Report on Washington D.C.’s Rock Creek Park: America’s First National Park General Management Plan

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

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Tim Davis

Presenter Biography

Tim Davis is a National Park Service historian based in Washington, DC. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard and Ph.D from the University of Texas, Austin. He specializes in cultural landscape history and has worked for the Historic American Buildings Survey, Historic American Engineering Record, Historic American Landscapes Survey, and Park Historic Structures & Cultural Landscapes Program. He is the author of National Park Roads: A Legacy in the American Landscape and coeditor of America’s National Park Roads & Parkways: Drawings from the Historic American Engineering Record. Along with producing HABS/HAER/HALS reports, he has contributed to numerous scholarly books and journals.

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Last updated: December 21, 2022