Manning’s extensive environmental studies of Harrisburg, made as he designed a citywide park system in 1901, informed his decisions for the Bellevue community. Warren Manning began his career working at his father’s nursery, after which, in 1888, he joined the firm of Frederick Law Olmsted in Massachusetts and worked as the firm's “Superintendent of Plantings” on many public parks, residential enclaves and estates. He tapped Manning to work with him on Bellevue Park, where the two men created a landscape to match their beliefs in the restorative properties of natural settings. McFarland, living at the peak of the industrial revolution in heavily polluted central Pennsylvania, was a nationally known proselytizer for clean, beautiful city spaces and a self-proclaimed advocate of the “Crusade Against Ugliness” in Harrisburg. Lower pond, Bellevue Park, PA - Photo courtesy Brenda Barrett, 2020
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