Warren Manning
John Charles Olmsted
100 Year BSLA History
Tim Nickerson, ASLA
Most meetings continued to be in New York, but in 1905 (and
again in 1908), Boston served as host. In the three-day 1905
meeting, discussion topics included the boulevards and parkways
of Boston, Harvard University, and private estates in Boston and
Brookline, with subsequent conversations focused on the parks
of Boston, featuring excursion to the Boston Park System and the
Metropolitan Park System. John Charles Olmsted delivered a
lecture on The Boston Park System.
With a desire to support local landscape architects, the same
three Boston-area gentlemen decided to organize a local Chapter.
While no formal process allowed for ASLA chapters at the time,
Warren Manning, John Charles Olmsted, and Frederick Law
Olmsted, Jr. founded the Boston Society of Landsc R&6