Created the city's 1929 master plan; also designed the gardens at Bok Tower.
Son of the designer of Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. (1870–1957) was one of America's most influential landscape architects and a founder of the American Society of Landscape Architects.
His firm shaped Lake Wales twice over: the Olmsted Brothers' 1929 plan gave the city its 'city in a garden' framework of parks, medians, and lakefront open space, and Olmsted Jr. personally designed the gardens at Bok Tower and the Mountain Lake community nearby.
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Olmsted Brothers
Responsible for the 'city in a garden' planning concept; successors to Frederick Law Olmsted Sr.