This place is just gorgeous.  Here’s a little tidbit about Olana from their website https://www.olana.org/

Olana was the home of Frederic Church.

Who Was Frederic Edwin Church?

Frederic Church is well-known as a painter, but he was also a world traveller, a family man, and a self-taught architect, farmer and landscape designer. He and his wife Isabel were pious, wellread, and funloving. They raised four children at their estate overlooking the Hudson. Though Frederic and Isabel Church moved among New York City’s cultural tastemakers, Olana was their primary home.

A descendant of one of the Puritan families that founded Hartford, Connecticut, Frederic Edwin Church was born there in 1826 to Joseph and Eliza Janes Church. Frederic Church was raised in a Congregationalist household, the son of a silversmith with interests in milling, insurance, real estate and railroads. Showing early artistic talent, Church’s parents arranged for him to study with Thomas Cole in Catskill, New York. Cole had already established himself as an important landscape painter, and Church studied with him between 1844 and 1846. The two spent time in the studio and in the landscape, and a twilight scene on the Catskill Creek painted during this period by Church can be seen at Olana. Church moved to New York in 1847 and began his independent career. Travel became a constant in Church’s life, as he sought out specific locales and topics to paint. He crisscrossed New England, and Olana has canvases depicting Ira Mountain, Vermont, Bar Harbor, Maine, and the Charter Oak in Hartford, Connecticut. He went further afield to Labrador to see icebergs, and to South America, in 1853 and 1857, along the cordilleras of the Andes, to see equatorial volcanoes.

While still in his twenties, he achieved great success at the exhibitions and sales of the American Art Union and the National Academy of Design, and attracted important patrons, like Cyrus Field, inventor of the transatlantic cable, and John Taylor Johnston, a railroad tycoon. Even when Olana became his primary residence, Church maintained an active presence in New York City, where he was a part of the art community. Like many artists, Church, was a member of the National Academy of Design and the Century Club, and had a studio in the 10th Street Studio Building.

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