Founded in 1952 by William R. Coe, the Planting Fields Foundation strives to preserve and make relevant to all audiences the heritage of Planting Fields, an early 20th century 409-acre estate, designed as an integrated composition of the built and natural world.  The four applications that were awarded by the Robert David Gardiner Foundation will enable Planting Fields Foundation to present a series of initiatives that explore the various aspects of the Olmsted Brothers deigned landscape at Planting Fields and throughout Long Island. This work will enable us to have a robust presence in the 2022 national celebration of the bicentennial of Frederick Law Olmsted’s birth, Olmsted 200, by positioning Planting Fields as a significant extant representative of Olmsted residential design and a leader in the scholarly discourse on the firm’s work. All of these projects: symposium, publication, exhibition, guidebook and public programs, will serve as a counterpoint to the landscape restoration we are currently leading, and these projects set a critical framework for the intellectual understanding of Olmsted residential design.