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      • Annual Meeting January 18, 2019
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      • Annual Meeting January 16, 2015
      • Annual Meeting January 17, 2014
      • Annual Meeting January 18, 2013
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        • Post-Blizzard Buzz
      • Annual Meeting January 15, 2010
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  • Events
    • Vintage Baseball Game Hits Riverside
    • House Walk 2019: Masterworks
      • Lecture: CITY IN A GARDEN, NEW ENGLAND ROOTS
      • Avery Coonley House – Bedroom Wing
      • Avery Coonley Estate – Gardener’s Cottage
      • Thorncroft Residence
      • Caretaker’s Cottage
      • Freeark Residence
      • L.Y. Schermerhorn House
    • Hop Stop 2019
    • FLOS Volunteer Happy Hour!
    • Historic Riverside BioBlitz
    • FLOS Calendar
    • Landscape Workdays
      • Landscape Workdays: October 5 & 12, 2019
      • Landscape Workday: October 26, 2019
      • Landscape Workday: April 27th
      • RB Day of Service 2019
      • Workdays 2018
        • Landscape Workday: March 17, 2018
        • Landscape Workday: Prescribed Burns in Riverside
        • RB Day of Service 2018
        • Landscape Workday: May 12, 2018
        • June Workdays 2018
        • Landscape Workday: July 14th
        • Landscape Workday, October 12
      • Workdays 2017
        • FLOS Workdays – Spring into Action!
        • FLOS Workday – March 11, 2017
        • FLOS Arbor Day Thank You to Peter B!
        • Happy 50th Anniversary Frederick Law Olmsted Society!
        • FLOS Workday July 15
        • FLOS Workdays – September 9 & 16
        • Landscape Workday: September 30, 2017
      • Workdays 2016
        • Double Duty April/May Workdays!
        • Workdays – Summer Sum UP with Pics!
        • Fall Plantings – October 22nd
        • Final Workday 2016!
      • Workdays 2015
        • Swan Pond Workday: April 25th
        • Swan Pond Workday – April 11, 2015
        • Landscape Workday – October 25th
        • Prescribed Burn Training
      • Workdays 2014
        • April 5th, 2014 Workday
        • Arbor Day 2014
        • May 31st, 2014 Workday
      • Workdays 2013
        • 2013 RBHS Day of Service
      • Workdays 2012
        • Arbor Day 2012
        • Workday on June 23rd
      • Workdays 2011
        • GUIDED NATURE WALK OF WAUBANSEE PRESERVE
        • GUIDED NATURE WALK OF ZOO WOODS
        • Spring Cleaning
        • Urban River and Riparian Restoration
        • Unearthed Treasures
        • Sawed, Dug, Dragged and Chipped
        • FREDERICK LAW OLMSTED SOCIETY LANDSCAPE WORKDAY
        • The Great Garlic Mustard Pull
      • Workdays 2010
        • Zoo Woods and Waubansee Preserve Tours
        • The Ultimate Recycler
        • Xylem and Phloem!
        • Good to the last Drop
      • Workdays 2009
        • Celebrating the Earth by Improving a Park
        • Scottswood Workday – Battling Buckthorn!
        • Treasures found in Scottswood Common
        • Take a Walk on the Wild Side
        • Riverside Road – August 29, 2009
        • Scottswood Commons – Fall Clean-up
        • Workday Update – Rainy Riverside
        • Winter Workday – Miller Woods Brushpile Burn
      • Invasion of the Land Snatchers
      • 50/50 Tree Planting Program
    • Historic Walking Tours
      • Garden Walk – July 9th
    • Lectures
      • August 10th – Wild Flower Walk and Talk
      • Lecture: Olmsted’s Offspring: From Riverside to Seaside
      • Lecture: Secrets from Very Old Trees
      • Lecture: Salt Creek Greenway Development and Future Connection with Centennial Trail
      • Lecture: Restoring Wright Buildings to their Rightful Brilliance
      • Lecture: The Mafia in the Western Suburbs
      • Lecture: How Zero Waste Can Become a Reality
      • Lecture: Bird Friendly Gardens and Landscapes
      • Lecture: Zoo News
      • Lecture: What’s New (& Old) in the Cook County Forest Preserves
      • Lecture – Giants in the Park
      • Lecture – Gardens of England
      • Lecture – Gardens of China
      • Lecture – Riverside, Graceland Cemetery and William LeBaron Jenney
      • Lecture – Canada: Landscapes of Modernity
      • Lecture – The Impacts of Exotic Species on Native Trees
      • Lecture – How Berwyn is Going Green
      • Lecture: What’s Happening in Riverside Lawn?
      • Pre-Screening: Ten Towns with Geoffrey Baer
      • FLOS Lecture: Rethinking Your Lawn
      • Lecture: Where Did Martha Go?
      • Lecture: The Arcade Building: The Past, Present and the Future
      • Lecture: A Deep Energy Retrofit Case Study
      • Lecture: Undamming the Des Plaines
      • Crude by Rail – the Story Behind the Fiery Derailments
      • The State of our Urban Forest
      • Lecture: Jackson Park Restoration
      • Lecture – Backyard Beekeeping
      • Solar Panels in Riverside: A Case Study
      • Durable Living Arrangements in Response to the Twin Sides of the Fossil-Fuel Coin
      • Riverside: Comprehensive Sewer Study
      • GOATS DO ROAM – INSIGHTS INTO GOATS AND LANDSCAPING
      • Trees and Changing Climate
      • Environmental Conservation After Dark
      • The Charm of Chickens: Reasons to Raise Backyard Hens
      • Architecture, Efficiency, and Place
      • World’s Fair Gardens
      • The Making of Downton Abbey: Setting the Scene
      • Shunde, A Chinese Eco City District Design Competition
      • Olmsted Straight – No Chaser
      • Riverside in the Urban Millennium – The Need for the Next Civic Spirit
      • Confessions of a Nature Lover
      • A. Caldwell and the A-Bomb
      • Wright’s Search for Innovation in Design
      • The Zero Energy Home & Residential Green Roofs
    • Riverside Cruise Nights
    • FRED
    • Housewalk Archives
      • Housewalk 2014: SUSTAINABILITY: THEN & NOW
        • Housewalk Bike Rental
        • The Gear-Foulkes Residence
        • The Karasek-LaMantia Residence
        • The O’Brien-Rubio Residence
        • The Kotlar Residence
        • The Skiba-Brannick Residence
        • The Foley Residence
        • Housewalk 2014 Sponsors
      • Housewalk 2012: HOMEwork
        • The Arcade Building
        • The Cykner Residence
        • The Gorielding Residence
        • The Silverthorne Residence
        • The Plhak Residence
        • The Kestory Residence
        • The Vesely Residence
      • Housewalk 2010: Babson to Baltis – A 20th Century Pageant
        • Purchase Tickets 2010 Housewalk
        • Housewalk Sign Ambush
        • Babson Estate Service Buildings
        • Fortunate Forty – Jahn
        • Baltis Built – 1955
        • Fortunate Forty – 1965
        • Fortunate Forty – Page
        • French Normandy – 1936
        • Skala Residence
      • Housewalk 2008
        • Avery Coonley Gardens
        • Youngman Residence
        • Aichinger Residence
        • Salsbury / Altmayer Residence
        • John F. Palmer Residence
        • Thorncroft Residence
        • Denniston Residence
  • Photos
    • Take Your Best Shot! Naturally Riverside Photo Contest
    • PICTURING RIVERSIDE: An Exhibition of a National Historic Landmark Community
    • 2010 Housewalk Photos
    • Landscape
      • Scottswood Workday May 16, 2009
    • 4th of July 2007
    • Reflections on Riverside
    • CBD Planting May 2008
    • Then and Now
  • Education
    • History of Dams in Riverside, IL
    • Parc du Mont Royal
    • Olmsted Collection at Riverside Library
      • Living the Plan in Riverside
      • New Addition to Olmsted Collection
    • Reflections on Riverside
      • 2016 Reflections on Riverside Poetry Winners
      • 2015 Reflections on Riverside Poetry Winners
      • 2013 Poetry and Imagery Contests
        • Bike Trails
        • What the Tree Sees
        • U-Turn City
        • The Riverside Man
        • The Love of Riverside
        • The Riverside Train Station
      • 2012 Poetry Contest
        • This is Riverside, Where Nature’s Always Found
        • What I Can See…
        • The Wish
        • The Gentle Des Plaines
        • Riverside
        • Riverside’s Spring
        • Riverside
        • Riverside is the Place to Be
        • Seasons in Riverside
        • Good Morning River
        • Blythe Park
        • Riverside
      • 2011 Poetry Contest
        • Des Plaines River
        • White Tail Deer on my Lawn
        • Mother Nature and the River
        • Town by the River
        • Riverside’s Beauty: Reflections of a First Grader
        • Des Plaines River
        • Spring in Riverside
        • Spring in Riverside
        • Frederick Olmsted
        • Ode to Flowers
        • River
        • Arbor Day in Riverside
        • Lighting the Landscape
        • River
      • 2010 Poetry Contest
        • The Nature Side of Riverside
        • I Am Nature
        • Spring Wildlife
        • Swan Pond Haiku
        • In Riverside
        • A Tour of Riverside
        • Riverside
        • Turtle Park in My Eyes
        • The Open Spaces of Riverside
        • Tunnel of Trees
        • Home
        • The Des Plaines River
      • 2009 Poetry Contest
        • Olmsted’s Plan for Riverside
        • Birds of Riverside
        • Big Ball Park
        • Living Thing
        • River
        • Riverside in Spring
        • Down by the River
        • Journey of a Traveler: Peace Haven
        • Nature Lover
      • 2008 Poetry Contest
    • About Olmsted
    • Architectural Awards
      • 2010: Restoration Award
      • 2009: Olmsted Spirit Award
      • 2008: Architecture Award
      • 2007: Architecture Award
  • Resources
    • FLOS Video on RBTV
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      • Wolf Road Prairie Nature Reserve
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    The Frederick Law Olmsted Society is dedicated to sustaining Olmsted's vision for Riverside for generations to come. Its members are guided by his concern for humanity, nature, sense of community and the innovative and thoughtful essence of his work. The Olmsted Society invites residents and visitors to join us in learning, protecting the environment, and preserving our cultural and physical heritage.

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    • FLOS Annual Meeting
      Friday, January 10, 2020 07:00 pm

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