Biography: Olmsted Brothers was the landscape architecture firm formed in 1898 by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. and his half-brother John Charles Olmsted, the children of Frederick Law Olmsted. The firm was the successor to Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot after the retirement of Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. and the death of Charles Eliot. Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot was active from 1893 - 1897.