ADVISORY/Branch Brook Park Alliance Partners With the Essex County Park System to Announce Results of Cultural Landscape Study.Business Editors & City Editors ADVISORY...For Monday (Dec. 9) --(BUSINESS WIRE)
WHAT: Branch Brook Park Alliance, in partnership with the Essex
County Park System, will announce the results of Phase I of
the Cultural Landscape Study of the Park. Learn the
fascinating history of the Park and hear how this landmark
study is advancing the Park's restoration and working
towards assisting the efforts of the Essex County Open Space
Master Plan.
WHEN: Monday, December 9, 2002 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
WHERE: The Newark Museum - Billy Johnson Auditorium
49 Washington Street
Newark, NJ
WHO: Guest Speakers will include:
-- Dr. Charles M. Beveridge, Department of History, The
American University; Editor, Frederick Law Olmsted Papers
-- Arleyn Levee, Olmsted Historian and Scholar
-- Faye B. Harwell, Principal, and John Meisel, Project
Manager Rhodeside & Harwell, landscape architects
Commentary to be provided by:
-- Charles Cummings, Assistant Director for Special
Collections and Statewide Outreach, The Newark Public
Library
-- Dr. Clement Alexander Price, Professor of History and
Afro-American History,Rutgers University
-- Kathleen Galop, Principal Preservation Possibilities
-- James P. Lecky, Director, Delaware College of Art & Design
-- Daniel K. Salvante, Assistant County Administrator, Essex
County Park System
BACKGROUND: Branch Brook Park, encompassing almost 360 acres, is
located within the cities of Newark and Belleville, NJ.
The Park is listed on both the State and National Register
of Historic Places and was designed by the famed landscape
architecture firm of Olmsted Brothers, a successor to
Frederick Law Olmsted, the designer of Central Park and
Prospect Park in New York. Moreover, Branch Brook Park is
the very first County Park opened to the public in the
United States.
Rhodeside & Harwell, Incorporated specializes in planning, landscape architecture, and urban design services. The firm provides planning services in contemporary and historic settings for a broad range of public and private sector clients. Projects include Arlington National Cemetery Arlington National Cemetery, 420 acres (170 hectares), N Va., across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C.; est. 1864. More than 60,000 American war dead, as well as notables including Presidents William Howard Taft and John F. Kennedy, Gen. John J. Master Plan, Arlington, Virginia Virginia, state, United States Virginia, state of the south-central United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), North Carolina and Tennessee (S), Kentucky and West Virginia (W), and Maryland and the District of Columbia (N and NE). ; Portland Wharf WHARF. A space of ground artificially prepared for the reception of merchandise from a ship or vessel, so as to promote the convenient loading and discharge of such vessel. Archaeological Park, Louisville, Kentucky  “Louisville” redirects here. For other uses, see Louisville (disambiguation). ; Alexandria Open Space Plan, Alexandria, Virginia Alexandria is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 128,284. Located along the Western bank of the Potomac River, Alexandria is approximately 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) south of downtown Washington, DC. ; Park Place Urban Revitalization re·vi·tal·ize tr.v. re·vi·tal·ized, re·vi·tal·iz·ing, re·vi·tal·iz·es To impart new life or vigor to: plans to revitalize inner-city neighborhoods; tried to revitalize a flagging economy. Plan, Norfolk, Virginia Norfolk is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States of America. With a population of 234,403 as of the 2000 census, Norfolk is Virginia's second-largest incorporated city. ; and Cadwalader Park Historic Landscape Master Plan, Trenton, New Jersey. The Branch Brook Park Brook Park, city (1990 pop. 22,865), Cuyahoga co., NE Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland; inc. 1914. A major office complex and the Cleveland municipal airport are there. Industries include transportation equipment and casting plants. Alliance, formed in 1999, is a group of individuals and organizations -- including the City of Newark -- that came together to work cooperatively with the Essex County Essex County can refer to:
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