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Piedmont Way was conceived in 1865 by Frederick Law Olmstead, America’s foremost landscape architect, as the centerpiece of a gracious residential community beside the College of California. Olmstead envisioned a roadway that would follow the natural contours of the land and be sheltered from sun and wind by “an over-arching bowery of foliage.” This curvilinear, tree-lined parkway was Olmstead’s first residential street design and served as the model for similar parkways across the nation.
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Berkeley, California · United States
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy Charter Day Speech
History
First Church of Christ, Scientist
Arts & Culture
University of California Berkeley Campus
Education
“A People’s History of Telegraph Avenue”
Arts & Culture
The Lawrence 37-Inch Cyclotron
Science & Tech
University of California Botanical Garden
Nature
