National Park Service announces spring tours schedule at Brookline’s Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, located at 99 Warren Street in Brookline, begins its spring public hours on Friday, April 10. The site is offering regular tours of the historic Olmsted design office and Olmsted-designed grounds on Fridays and Saturdays at 10:00, 11:00, 1;00, 2:00, and 3:00. The tours take roughly 45 minutes, and admission is free.

In addition, visitors are welcome to view self-guided exhibits on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 12:00 pm to 4:00 pm and Fridays and Saturdays from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm. For further information on Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site, on-site tours, and other programs, please visit www.nps.gov/frla or call 617-566-1689 Monday through Saturday.

The site is a 15-minute walk from the Brookline Hills Green Line MBTA station and also walkable from the MBTA’s #60 bus that runs between Kenmore Station and Chestnut Hill. Limited parking is available on-site for those coming by car.

Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site was the Brookline, Massachusetts home and office of America’s premier parkmaker and the designer of the Emerald Necklace park system. Now administered by the National Park Service as one of its 407 sites around the United States, Olmsted NHS was for nearly a century the headquarters of the first full-scale professional landscape architecture office in the United States. The site maintains the Olmsted Archives, a collection of the Olmsted firm’s plans, drawings, photographs, and other work product for thousands of landscapes around the continent.