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Olana State Historic Site

The Olana Partnership is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to inspire the public by preserving and interpreting Frederic Church’s OLANA, a New York State Historic Site and National Historic Landmark within the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area.

5720 New York 9G, Hudson, NY 12534, USA

Hours: Park:Daily 8:00am to Sunset; Tours: Tuesday-Sunday 10:00am-3:45pm

The Olana Partnership envisions Frederic Church’s OLANA, a New York State Historic Site and National Historic Landmark, as vibrant with the activity of visitors, students, scholars and artists, as the most widely recognized artist’s home and studio in the world. Olana’s 250-acre landscape is free and open every day from 8 AM to sunset. We encourage you to explore Frederic Church’s designed landscape on five miles of carriage roads. Please note Olana, is a carry-in, carry-out, tobacco-free environment. Dogs are welcome outdoors and must be leashed at all times.

Olana State Historic Site has received Trip Advisor’s Travelers’ Choice Award. Visitor feedback has placed Olana among the TOP 10% OF ATTRACTIONS WORLDWIDE! Olana was also voted “Best Historic Site” in the Albany Times-Union “Best of the Valley” poll.

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Olana State Historic Site in Hudson: Hours, admission and more info

• Updated: Feb. 21, 2023, 12:21 p.m.
• | Published: May. 16, 2016, 10:44 p.m.
• Julie McMahon | [email protected]

The Olana Historic Site preserves the home of Hudson River School artist Frederic Church and the views that inspired his paintings.

As a young budding artist, Church's parents sent him to study under Thomas Cole in the Catskills, where he sketched and settled into the rural landscape.

Church lived at Olana through the Civil War, marriage, children, the loss of two sons and between excursions throughout the world. He and his wife traveled extensively in Europe and the Middle East.

When they set about building a home on the hundreds of acres they accumulated alongside the Hudson River, Church learned architecture and oversaw much of the home's construction.

Olana was named for a home in Persia that inspired Church. Its decor is ornate and accents unique. Church's paintings are featured throughout.

What to expect

What began as a "Cosy Cottage" grew to a stone fortress under Church's command of the property.

A visit to Olana typically includes a guided tour of the house and landscape.

Guests buy tickets at the museum store in the visitor center, then walk along a driveway to the house. The tour includes the first floor studio and rooms, and in the high season, the second floor bedroom suite and exhibit.

There are a few opportunities for self-guided tours of the property during part of the year. Reservations are recommended and can be made online or by phone: 518-751-0344.

You can enjoy the views for free or walk the sprawling park with a guide.

Church’s painting and other featured artwork can also be viewed in the house’s upstairs galleries.

5720 State Route 9G

Hudson, NY 12534

Hours change seasonally, so visit OLANA.org for the most up-to-date information.

Visit OLANA.org for the most up to date admission fees.

Free on site

School tours

Olana welcomes school field trips. To learn more and submit your request visit: https://www.olana.org/tour-category/school/

Arrive early to retrieve tickets at least 20 minutes before your tour starts. Bring confirmation of your reservation.

Photography is not permitted, so leave your camera at home or in the car.

Food and drink are not allowed. Strollers and backpacks will not be permitted in the building. There is no secure storage location for large items.

Only service dogs are permitted in the museum.

Exhibitions

An updated exhibitions list is available at the museum website.

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Olana State Historic Site

• 5720 New York 9G
• Hudson, NY 12534
• (518) 751-0344

An official Path Through History Site! Olana is the greatest masterpiece of Frederic Edwin Church, the preeminent American artist of the mid-19th century. It is considered the most important artist’s home, studio, and designed landscape in the US. Church designed Olana as a holistic environment integrating advanced ideas about art, architecture, landscape design, and environmental conservation. Olana’s 250-acre artist-designed landscape with five miles of carriage roads and a Persian-inspired house at its summit embraces unrivaled panoramic views of the Hudson Valley and Catskill Mountains. An array of Church`s art and collections are displayed and a gallery on the second floor features annual exhibitions. The house and landscape are open for guided touring, and reservations are highly recommended. The landscape is open daily 8 am to sunset. Hiking, picnicking, birding, snow-shoeing, and cross country skiing are available seasonally along with programs and special events. Recreational activities on the lake include fishing (with valid NYS fishing license and permit), kayaks, and non-motored boats. Permits for these activities are available from the Site Manager’s office.

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Touring Olana State Historic Site: The Home of Artist Frederic Church

While his popularity has waned somewhat in the 21st century, there were few 19th-century American painters that were more well known than Frederic Church. And, wanting to learn more about his life and art, I recently had a chance to visit his incredible home, Olana.

Olana is located high atop a hill overlooking the Hudson River in Columbia County, New York . The home was built by Church between 1870 and 1872 on land that he had acquired over the previous decades because he loved the view of the river and the Catskill Mountains from the hilltop. 

As one of the most prominent members of the famed Hudson River School, the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains were two of the subjects that most impacted the art of Frederic Church, so it’s no wonder that he desired to see his artistic inspiration from his home.

Today, the home is known as Olana State Historic Site and is open for guided tours from April to October. While there are a variety of tour options at the site, the standard Historic Approach and Interiors Tour is a great option for those wanting to see the home’s interior and learn about the life of Frederic Church.

Tours last roughly an hour and start near the gift shop. They do tend to sell out, so it’s recommended that you buy your tickets a few days early. Even when I visited on a weekday during the fall, people were being turned away because tours were sold out.

Guides take visitors along the paved path that winds its way up the hillside towards the entrance to Olana. Along the way, they discuss the life of Church and the story of his home, Olana,

While there are many cultures that influenced Church’s design of Olana, Middle Eastern elements are clearly present in the house’s design and aesthetic. This gives that house a unique look that you won’t find elsewhere in New York.

Furthermore, to Church, both Olana and the many acres of land that surrounded the home were works of art. He carefully sculpted everything from the amazing framed views from the windows to the walkway up to the home to ensure maximum natural beauty.

Inside the home, guides take you through rooms on both the home’s first and second floor, including sitting rooms, porches, bedrooms, and even Church’s studio.

Along the way, they offer great insight into the home’s features and what life in the home was like for Frederic Church, his family, and even the servants that worked at the property.

Interestingly, nearly all of the furniture and decorations in the home were owned by Church and much of it sits in the same place where it was when he lived here.

These decorations include many of Church’s beautiful paintings, featuring destinations both near and far. Given that his work can be found at world-famous institutions like the Smithsonian and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, it’s really great to see so many of his works within the space.

I also found it interesting that the site also weaves in temporary exhibitions from current artists both inside and outside the home. This really adds a fun and unique feel to the home that you don’t often see at artists’ homes and helps to bring to light emerging artists and their art.

I also really appreciated how a portion of the tour goes into the servent’s quarters. It was interesting to learn a bit about the lives of those that worked in this home and served the Church family. Since Olana was also their home, it’s fitting that they be covered during the tour as well.

After the tour of the home, visitors can explore the grounds of Olana State Historic Site at their own pace. In fact, one of the great things about this spot is that, since it’s a New York State Park , the grounds are open dawn to dusk throughout the year, even if tours are not running.

The park features roughly five miles of trails that offer great views of the incredible landscape that Frederic Church fell in love with. You can even walk around the 10-acre lake that Church created and view his original home on the property, Cozy Cottage.

There is no charge to simply explore the grounds of Olana. However, if you’d rather, Olana does offer several different guided tours of the property for those wanting to learn more about how Church crafted the landscape as part of his artistic endeavors.

Overall, Olana State Historic Site is a really fascinating and beautiful spot to visit. Whether you love art , history , or simply quirky and unusual sites , there’s a lot to love about this great home and park in the northern Hudson Valley .

Definitely don’t miss this spot when exploring the region.

Looking for even more places to visit nearby? Check out the Old Catskill Game Farm , Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site , High Falls Conservation Area , and Hannacroix Creek Preserve .

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Upstate Art Weekend Offers a Year’s Worth of Art in Four Days

By car or train, there’s no better time to get out of the city than now, during the fifth edition of this sprawling festival north of New York City.

By Will Heinrich

Reporting from galleries and art centers in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York.

The list of official participants in this year’s fifth edition of Upstate Art Weekend , a sprawling festival that embraces nearly every art event or exhibition happening north of New York City over the next four days, has reached 145. It’s a dramatic rise from an informal band of some two dozen arts centers and galleries just four years ago, and it now spans 10 counties in New York State.

While the participants include perpetually open historical sites like Boscobel and Olana , and also a few aesthetically inclined specialty grocers and clothing designers , most of the exhibits really are up just for the occasion, and many include one-off performances, like Audra Wolowiec ’s choral performance on a boat crossing the Hudson .

Some events spill over from last year, but there are many new developments. The New Art Dealers Alliance, which put on a small fair last year at the Foreland complex in Catskill, N.Y., is taking the year off, but Foreland is hosting its own youth arts fund-raiser , with auctions, ceramics, food and a conceptual sound installation. At the Zero Art Fair in Elizaville, nearby, visitors are welcome to take home one available work per day for free under an innovative contract that vests ownership over five years, after which time title will pass to the new owner. The contract was developed for the artist William Powhida (who founded that fair with the artist Jennifer Dalton).

The Campus (Columbia County)

If what you really yearn for is that overwhelming art fair feeling, and scene, be sure to visit The Campus , in Claverack, outside Hudson, N.Y. There, in a 78,000-square-foot former school building unused for decades, six New York galleries have combined forces with the curator Timo Kappeller to mount an 80-plus-artist show that fills classroom after unrenovated classroom and spreads out onto 22 acres. (The six galleries — Bortolami, James Cohan, Kaufmann Repetto, Anton Kern, Andrew Kreps and Kurimanzutto — pooled their resources to buy the place , which they’re also using for storage.)

As with any art fair, the best strategy is to identify and focus on a theme or strand that interests you. For me, it was narrow, sculptural lines, and I followed them from a vertically striped Alice Trumbull Mason painting in Room 28 past a pair of trippy, hula-hoop-like sculptures by Madeline Hollander in the hallways, out to a line of hollow, oversize steel “ vessels ” by Maren Hassinger, and back to a space-age, stove-like construction by Diane Simpson in Room 12.

The Gallery Corridor: Kinderhook to Germantown

Galleries tend to cluster from Kinderhook, in northern Columbia County, to Germantown, about 24 miles southwest. In Kinderhook, Jack Shainman Gallery’s The School is hosting an enormous quasi-retrospective of almost incandescently bright paintings by Nina Chanel Abney , but you’ll also find, in the same town, aleatoric wooden sculptures by Taylor Davis and gestural abstract paintings by Annie Bielski at September Gallery , as well as a group show of landscapes at Bill Arning Exhibitions nearby. In Germantown, Alexander Gray has a lush group show, “Groundswell,” which brings together historical and contemporary works from an intergenerational group of artists who use landscape to suggest alternate but familiar worlds (along with one terrifying carnivorous elephant ). In the same town, Mendes Wood DM Archipelago — the upstate branch of the TriBeCa and São Paulo gallery — is showing dreamy paintings and enormous drawings made by the young artist Edgar Calel with his family and the Maya-Kaqchikel community of central Guatemala. Here, too, Mother-in-law ’s, a spinoff of a gallery in Hudson, has both assemblage and video indoors and a group show of works that “examine different methods of living with and parallel from nature,” appropriately enough, out back.

One Busy Route Through the Hudson Valley

For a hectic straight line that will take you back toward the city, start at “Upstate Gnarly,” a group show of work by two painters and two sculptors, all of it color-driven, intuitive, and complicated — or “gnarly” — held in the shared studio of Brian Wood and Ashley Garrett . Continue on to visit several artist residencies: Macedonia Institute , in Chatham, and Interlude Residency , in Livingston, are both mounting alumni group shows for the weekend. (I’m particularly piqued by Interlude’s three-person show: It joins the visceral colors of the abstract painter Annette Wehrhan with work by Saul Chernick and Shanti Grumbine , who are more systematic and abstemious, respectively.)

Head on to “Start Making Sense” at the Hessel Museum at Bard College, in Annandale-on-Hudson, where you’ll find a posse of puppets made by Philippe Parreno and Rirkrit Tiravanija staring at text paintings by Glenn Ligon and Christopher Wool . Stop in Kingston, where Noise for Now — a national initiative that connects artists with grass-roots groups — is once again staging an auction to support abortion rights, or gape at Michael Royce’s painting of fingers that terminate in goose heads at Headstone Gallery, also in Kingston. Next door, in the town of Port Ewen, you’ll find a mysterious group show of artists influenced by photography (the gallery is called The Post Office ). By the time you reach Stoneleaf Retreat , another residency presenting work by alumnae, you’ll be only two hours from Times Square.

Adventures in the Catskills

If you’re willing to put in just a little more driving, head west to the Catskill Art Space to see work by a video art pioneer, Mary Lucier , with a glowing blue rectangle by James Turrell and wall drawings by Sol LeWitt . Then check out the lush, minimalist paintings of Johnny Abrahams at Assembly , a two-year-old contemporary art space in a former Buick dealership in Monticello, N.Y. (Sullivan County), or travel north to the open artist studios at Bird Room in the hamlet of Cooks Falls (Delaware County), where they once sold Pontiacs.

When Bigger Is Better

If you want a single-stop destination, you might want to choose the depth and reach of a larger institution, like the Hessel Museum at Bard College. About an hour south, just across the Hudson River, in New Windsor, the 500-acre sculpture park at Storm King Art Center is always good for a wonderful afternoon when the weather’s nice; it currently has the added bonus of six vibrant new commissions by Arlene Shechet , along with a whole indoor show. Nearby, outside Cold Spring (but worth its own visit), there’s Magazzino Italian Art , a private museum focused on Arte Povera, which recently added a beautiful new wing, the Robert Olnick Pavilion, in which you can see a small but very thoughtfully arranged exhibition of gorgeous Murano glass by Carlo Scarpa and a much larger show of paintings by Mario Schifano .

In the 1960s, Schifano made his name with a series of unusual monochromes — painted with enamel on paper and mounted on canvas, with visible seams, buckles, brushwork and drips, as well as differently-colored borders with rounded edges that evoked TV screens, they were less like monochromes than romantic portraits of monochromes. Later he revisited Futurism and incorporated numbers, letters and the Coca-Cola logo into stylish paintings that still have their cool factor.

Tarrytown and Beacon: Art Tourism for Traingoers

For anyone without a car, the best plan is to take Metro-North either to Tarrytown, where you can bag the fine art and enjoy the Sleepy Hollow Mermaid Festival in Kingsland Point Park, on Saturday, with family-friendly activities and a costume contest, or continue by train directly to the majestic Riggio Galleries of Dia Beacon in Beacon, N.Y., where you can catch the Robert Irwin and Blinky Palermo shows, both closing soon. Serene but vividly colored works from the German-born painter Palermo’s mid-1970s “Times of Day” series meet the ethereal sensation of daylight filtered through Irwin’s piece — a large section of scrim stretched across the room.

From Dia, you can continue by foot into Beacon proper to find some small commercial galleries like Analog Diary and Distortion Society , which will be offering both winsome watercolors and tattoos, and on to an open studios event that includes more than 100 artists in nearly 40 venues. ( Atlas Studios , a beautiful old factory building, will be holding open artist studios, too, right across the river in Newburgh.) Wind up at an exciting show of paintings and mixed media works by 11 African and African-diaspora artists, presented by Ethan Cohen Gallery at the KuBe Art Center (for Kunsthalle Beacon).

On your way back down from Beacon (or continuing north from Tarrytown), get off at Peekskill, where a five-minute cab ride will take you to the KinoSaito Arts Center, in Verplanck, N.Y., a tastefully renovated former Catholic school that hosts a rotating display of work by the downtown painter and set designer Kikuo Saito (1939-2016). These elegant, florally colored abstractions star alongside exhibitions and performances by younger artists. (Currently Chie Fueki is taking Saito’s colors in a multimedia direction, and Kathy Battista curates a show of abstract work by women.) Maiko Kikuchi , working through the La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, will perform two Saturday matinees of her vignettes, “ Note From a Sheep I Met at the Dawn ,” exploring the boundary between reality and dreams.

While you’re there, take my advice — pick up a chocolate smoothie at the coffee bar and bring it along on a little walk to the end of Seventh Street to smell the breeze that rolls in over Lake Meahagh. It’s hot, the world is falling apart, and the most important part of the festival, whichever attractions you land on, is getting out of the city and face to face with some verdant grass and trees.

Upstate Art Weekend Details are available at upstateartweekend.org , with a customizable Google map — and please, double check hours and locations before you go!

An earlier version of this article misstated the name of an arts organization. It is the New Art Dealers Alliance, not the New Art Dealers Association.

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Will Heinrich writes about new developments in contemporary art, and has previously been a critic for The New Yorker and The New York Observer. More about Will Heinrich

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Dive into Frederic Church’s Olana this summer during PANORAMA Summer Art + Nature Program . Back for its 15th annual season, The Olana Partnership will offer four weeks of hands-on exploration for children ages 6-11 from July to August at Olana State Historic Site. Experience art, science, and nature through sketching, lake exploration, hiking, painting, play, and more, all while meeting new friends and learning from the experts. The whole summer focuses on art and nature with special guest visits and activities each week. You don’t want to miss this unforgettable summer adventure!

The program runs Monday-Friday, 9 am to 3 pm. Secure your space! Registration will close on June 1, 2024. If you are interested in a week that has sold out, please email  [email protected]  to be added to the waitlist.

Week 1: July 15 – July 19, 2024 Week 2: July 22 – July 26, 2024 Week 3: July 29 – August 2, 2024 Week 4: August 5 – August 9, 2024

“It is one of the best camps in the area- varied activities and educational” – Panorama Parent

Week 1 Monday, July 15-Friday, July 19: 9:00am-3:00pm Get inspired by artist Frederic Church’s own relationship with science and discover secrets of the natural world through hikes, experiments, and sketching activities. Educators from the Taconic Outdoor Education Center and The Olana Partnership will guide students through Olana’s 250-acre artist-designed landscape where they will explore many habitats, animals, and ecosystems. Learn more about the creatures of Olana by observing insects in the meadow, watching frogs and snails in the lake, and keeping an eye out for the birds and mammals that call the site home. This week will include a special visit from Columbia Land Conservancy to talk more about aquatic creatures that live in Olana’s man-made lake.

Week 2 Monday, July 22-Friday, July 26: 9:00am-3:00pm Create your own designs during sculpture activities, architectural explorations, and games to get you thinking like an artist! Unleash your own inner sculptor by experimenting with professional art materials like clay, wire, and paper mâché. During this art-focused week of PANORAMA, learn more about Frederic Church’s artwork and the places that inspired his designs for Olana’s landscape and main house. This week will include a special visit from The Sylvia Center to lead a creative cooking class.

Week 3 Monday, July 29-Friday, August 2: 9:00am-3:00pm Dig deep and get inspired by artist Frederic Church’s own relationship with nature and farming through hikes, experiments, and art activities. Spend time in Olana’s 250-acre artist-designed landscape discovering what is growing at Olana now, what Church grew onsite at his farm, and what was here long before Church and his family called Hudson home! Students will learn all about Olana’s history as a farm by planting herbs and vegetables of their own, observing edible plants growing in nature, and making creations inspired by their family’s own favorite recipes. This week will include a special visit from Olana’s own beekeepers from Fox Farm Apiary to talk more about the pollinators that populate the site.

Week 4 Monday, August 5-Friday, August 9: 9:00am-3:00pm Spend time sketching Olana’s landscape, painting outside, and creating art connected to the world around us. During this art-focused week, learn more about Frederic Church’s artwork and the travels that inspired his paintings around the world. Students will discover their own artistic talents by experimenting with professional materials like tempera paint, charcoal, watercolor paint, and collage. This week will include a special visit from the curators behind our current exhibition, Frederic Church and the Landscape of Memory .

Safety guidelines:  

Olana State Historic Site is a New York State Park and continues to adhere to CDC/NYS COVID-19 guidelines.  

  Location: This program occurs in Olana’s indoor classroom space, outside the Wagon House Education Center, and throughout the site.

Cost: The cost of attendance is $350 a week for members of The Olana Partnership or $450 a week for non-members. Registration will close on June 1, 2024. If you are interested in a week that has sold out, please email [email protected] to be added to the waitlist. To become a member, visit OLANA.org/membership .

Full scholarships and financial support for transportation are available for students who attend Title 1 schools and/or receive SNAP and EBT benefits. To apply for funding or to learn more email [email protected] . 

Wagon House Education Center programming is made possible in part through support provided by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency; the Hudson River Bank & Trust Foundation; the Golub Family Foundation; The William H. Pitt Foundation, Inc.; Stewart’s Shops; the Bank of Greene County; and the members of The Olana Partnership. 

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• Electrostal History and Art Museum

You can spend time exploring the galleries in Electrostal History and Art Museum in Elektrostal. Take in the museums while you're in the area.

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• Places of interest
• Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center
• Central Museum of the Air Forces at Monino
• Peter the Great Military Academy
• Bykovo Manor
• Balashikha Arena
• Balashikha Museum of History and Local Lore
• Pekhorka Park
• Ramenskii History and Art Museum
• Orekhovo Zuevsky City Exhibition Hall
• Malenky Puppet Theater
• Noginsk Museum and Exhibition Center
• Saturn Stadium