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CHAPTER II
AUGUST 1874–JANUARY 1875
Reports in this chapter to Henry Stebbins and the commissioners of New York City Department of Public Parks spell out Olmsted’s continuing concern for the policing, maintenance, and landscape management of Central Park. His report to Stebbins of January 15 describes his concept of a unified plan for Riverside Park and Riverside Avenue. The chapter also contains Olmsted’s first description of his plan for a public recreation ground on Mount Royal in Montreal and his plan for Niagara Square in Buffalo with a proposed Civil War memorial arch by Henry Hobson Richardson. The article “The National Capitol” in the New-York Daily Tribune was Olmsted’s first and fullest statement to the press concerning his plan of the U.S. Capitol grounds.