Olmsted and
Vaux’s plan for the South Park System went up in smoke in the 1871 fire.
Luckily, a landscape architect had moved to Chicago in 1869. Horace Cleveland
was a friend of Olmsted’s who shared a vision of nature as a necessary relief
in urban design. He designed and developed Washington Park and Drexel Boulevard
in the 1870s. Cleveland thought the Chicago grid of streets was rigid and
confining. His designs developed flow through a natural environment as an
emotional relief. With the boulevard landscaped and traffic restricted, it
quickly became an attractive location for development. Horace Cleveland - Wikipedia
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