Olmsted’s plan with its curvilinear roads layout, traffic islands, entrance parkway, use of the topographic features and fine architecture is remarkably well preserved.

Part of the original plan showed “Overlook Park” with steps leading to it at the end of Monument Avenue.

The original subdivision had 191 lots of varying sizes and shapes.”[2] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

[1] At the same time, many argue that Olmsted never actually set foot in Swampscott, and the original plan was only for a strip of land that begins roughly at Humphrey Street and concludes where Monument Avenue turns into Walker Road.

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