Yerkes Future Foundation Board Vice Chair Tom Nickols (right) leads members of the Washington, D.C.-based Olmsted Network on a guided Sept. 22 tour of the 50-acre John Charles Olmsted-designed arboretum grounds at historic Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay. Here, Nickols exhibits the March 1906 landscape design plans for the Yerkes campus, as prepared by Brookline, Mass. Olmsted Brothers Landscape Architects.
Around 50 members of the nonprofit Washington, D.C.-based Olmsted Network toured Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay on Sept. 22 as part of their annual national conference, held Sept. 20-22 in Milwaukee. Those making the tour were drawn from as near as Milwaukee and Chicago and as far afield as Seattle, Portland, Ore., New York City and Paris, France. Yerkes' picturesque 50-acre Geneva Lake campus features a historic 1906 landscape design by John Charles Olmsted of Brookline, Mass.-based Olmsted Brothers Landscape Architects.
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Yerkes Future Foundation Board Vice Chair Tom Nickols (right) leads members of the Washington, D.C.-based Olmsted Network on a guided Sept. 22 tour of the 50-acre John Charles Olmsted-designed arboretum grounds at historic Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay. Here, Nickols exhibits the March 1906 landscape design plans for the Yerkes campus, as prepared by Brookline, Mass. Olmsted Brothers Landscape Architects.
Around 50 members of the nonprofit Washington, D.C.-based Olmsted Network toured Yerkes Observatory in Williams Bay on Sept. 22 as part of their annual national conference, held Sept. 20-22 in Milwaukee. Those making the tour were drawn from as near as Milwaukee and Chicago and as far afield as Seattle, Portland, Ore., New York City and Paris, France. Yerkes' picturesque 50-acre Geneva Lake campus features a historic 1906 landscape design by John Charles Olmsted of Brookline, Mass.-based Olmsted Brothers Landscape Architects.