The Luck of an Olmsted Legacy

In 1889 men wore top hats, long dress coats, fitted jackets and plaid tweed suits.  It is not impossible to imagine a particular young man of the time to be wearing the latter on a train headed to Washington State. Given that we at Dunn Gardens know his history it is also possible to imagine what he was thinking about as he sat on a days-long journey from the East Coast. He had been lured aboard, in part, by the enthusiasm of a boyhood friend, Elton Ainsworth, who was residing in Seattle.