National Historic Landmark- Olana

Olana is a 250-acre estate within a 327 acre park. The picturesque estate was designed by the artist Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900).

The Church's residences on the estate include a cottage designed by Richard Morris Hunt and the mansion designed by Calvert Vaux. The estate dominates a hilltop on the east bank of the Hudson River with views west to the Catskill Mountains and east to the Berkshires.

The main house was constructed 1870-74; a wing 1888-90 was designed and constructed by the artist. Frederic E. Church was one of the leading American Landscape artists of the Hudson River School.

Few estates with existing artist's studios of such authenticity remain in existence.

Courtesy National Park Service National Historical Landmarks