William E. Esarey speaker at the Kentucky Landscape Industries Winter Conference

Bill will be speaking on his project in Austin, Indiana.

Morgan Foods Corporate Retreat - An Olmsted Brothers Update

Bill Esarey, WEE Landscape Architecture

Olmsted Brothers Area

- History of the Olmsted Brothers Involvement

- Site Analysis, Inventory of what remained, and inconsistencies

- Being true to the Olmsted Brothers design in a 21st century upgrade

- Overall Design

- Hardscape

- Details

- Planting

- Olmsted Brothers details in the new design

- Taking details from other Olmsted projects

for new elements

- Elements Olmsted’s didn’t consider in 1938

and 1939

- Tour of the built project

Outside the limits of the Olmsted Plans

- Horses, Longhorns, and Buff alo

- Regenerating a farm

- Tree preservation

- Watershed protection

- Native plantings