Central Park Designer Honored With Stamp

BOSTON — Frederick Law Olmsted, one of the founders of American landscape architecture and the designer of New York’s Central Park, was honored Sunday with a 33-cent stamp from the U.S. Postal Service.

Olmsted, who lived in Brookline, Mass., designed several parks in the Boston area, including the “Emerald Necklace,” a ring of parks around the city.

The stamp is a montage that includes a John Singer Sargent portrait of Olmsted, a photograph of Central Park and two of his landscape plans.