Press Coverage

Olmsted-Beil House: Sampling of Press Coverage

National Association for Olmsted Parks--Olmsted 200

Call to Release Grant Funds for the Purchase of Olmsted Farm Property
(May 6, 2021)
https://olmsted200.org/call-for-release-grant-funds-to-purchase-the-olmsted-farm-property/

Olmsted: The Scientific Farmer on Staten Island
(January 15, 2021)
https://olmsted200.org/olmsted-the-scientific-farmer-on-staten-island/

The New York Times

Far From the Great Lawn, Saving a Home Tied to Central Park
(Feb. 12, 2018)
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/11/nyregion/saving-frederick-law-olmsted-house-central-park.html?searchResultPosition=2

Saving a Vital Patch of Olmsted’s Staten Island Eden
(Nov. 30, 2015)
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/01/nyregion/saving-a-vital-patch-of-olmsteds-staten-island-eden.html?searchResultPosition=1

A Lab, A Home, A Memory
(August 4, 2012)
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/nyregion/a-lab-a-home-a-memory.html

Staten Island Advance

To save a house you need friends with a passion and funding | Then and Now
(Jan. 7, 2022)
 

Olmsted-Beil House added to N.Y. State Register of Historic Places
(Sept. 26, 2020)
https://www.silive.com/news/2020/09/olmsted-beil-house-added-to-ny-register-of-historic-places.html

Staten Island Park Volunteers to be Honored for Service
(February 23, 2020)
https://www.silive.com/news/2020/02/staten-island-park-volunteers-to-be-honored-for-service.html

Community pushing to restore Frederick Law Olmsted home
(Oct. 18, 2019)
https://www.silive.com/news/2019/10/community-pushing-to-restore-frederick-law-olmsted-home.html

Olmsted-Beil House Park: Historic home of Central Park co-designer Frederick Law Olmsted
(Nov. 4, 2018)
https://www.silive.com/seen/2018/11/olmsted-beil-house-park-historic-home-of-central-park-co-designer-frederick-law-olmsted.html

 

NY1

Preservationists Launch Campaign to Save Historic New York Landmark
(Nov. 13, 2018)
https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2018/11/14/olmstead-beil-house

unTapped New York

See Frederick Law Olmsted’s Abandoned Staten Island Home That Inspired Central Park
(Sept. 3, 2019)
https://untappedcities.com/2019/09/03/see-frederick-law-olmsteads-abandoned-staten-island-home-that-inspired-central-park-2/

The Cultural Landscape Foundation

Olmsted’s Staten Island Farm
(Jan. 3, 2019)
https://tclf.org/olmsted-staten-island-farm?destination=search-results

CityLand

City Planning Commission Considers Acquisition of Land to Expand Olmsted Beil House Park
(Nov. 12, 2018)
https://www.citylandnyc.org/city-planning-commission-considers-acquisition-of-land-to-expand-olmsted-beil-house-park/