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The Olmsted Brothers completed numerous high-profile projects, many of which remain popular to this day, including park systems, universities, exposition grounds, libraries, hospitals, and state capitols. Notable commissions include the United States Capitol and White House Grounds, Great Smoky Mountains and Acadia National Park s, Yosemite Valley , New York's Central Park , Atlanta's Piedmont Park , and entire park systems in cities such as Seattle , Boston and Louisville . The firm employed nearly 60 staff at its peak in the early 1930s. Notable Landscape Architect s in the firm included James Frederick Dawson . The last family member in the firm, Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr., retired in 1949. "Fairsted", the firm's 100 year old business headquarters and design office, has been carefully preserved as the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site , located on 7 acres (28,000 m²) of landscaped grounds at 99 Warren St., Brookline, Massachusetts . It offers excellent insights into the actual practice of large-scale landscape design and engineering. SELECTED OLMSTED BROTHERS LANDSCAPE DESIGNS
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