HLOM Guest Speaker Series: Patrick Ryan, "The Richardson Olmsted Campus: Past, Present & Future"

The Holland Land Office Museum welcomed as the next presenter in its Guest Speaker Series, Patrick Ryan, the Cultural Curator of The Richardson Olmsted Campus and the Lipsey Architecture Center Buffalo. His presentation, "The Richardson Olmsted Campus: Past, Present & Future," covers the complicated history of the former Buffalo Sate Asylum for the Insane, now the Richardson Olmsted Campus. Learn about how three of the 19th century's finest minds, Thomas Story Kirkbride, Frederick Law Olmsted, and Henry Hobson Richardson came together to create one of the nation's most famous architectural treasures. The program will look into mental health treatment, architecture, landscape design, and current-day rehabilitation efforts.
“This project is made possible with funds from the statewide Community Regrant Program, a regrant program of the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and administered by GO ART!”