PRESS RELEASES

Governor Hochul Cuts Ribbon at Olana State Historic Site’s Over $18 Million Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape
Governor Kathy Hochul today announced the opening of the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape, a new entry and orientation facility at the historic site in Hudson, Columbia County. The Frederic Church Center will be a welcoming gateway for all visitors to Olana State Historic Site, making all 250 acres of the historic landscape an integral part of the visitor experience. This sustainably designed, all-electric building is the first structure built at Olana since Church’s lifetime. “Olana State Historic Site is one of the Hudson Valley’s most striking destinations, drawing visitors from around the world,” Governor Hochul said. “With the opening of the Frederic Church Center, even more residents and visitors can fully experience the work of one of our nation’s most visionary artists right here in New York State.” To read the full press release, click here.

The Olana Partnership Welcomes New Trustees and Staff
TOP is pleased to announce the appointment of three new trustees and two new staff members. TOP is the collaborative partner of the NYS Office of
Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation at Olana State Historic Site in Hudson NY. TOP’s board and staff are charged with achieving its mission to inspire the public by preserving and interpreting Frederic Church’s Olana. Trustees recently elected are Eric Blair-Joannou, Jennifer Krieger, and Michael Tavano. To read the full press release, click here.

Frederic Church’s Rarely Seen Memorial Landscape Paintings Debut at Olana State Historic Site in New Exhibition, Afterglow
TOP is the not-for-profit cooperative partner of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation at Olana State Historic Site and is the primary programming entity at Olana. TOP’s Board of Trustees provides leadership to realize its mission to inspire the public by preserving and interpreting Frederic Church’s Olana, a National Historic Landmark and the most significant artist-designed environment in the United States. To read the full press release, click here.

The Olana Partnership Invites Volunteers to Apply for 2024 Season at Olana State Historic Site
The Olana Partnership will be holding an in-person Volunteer Information Session on Sunday, March 24 from 12:30 – 1:30 PM for anyone who is interested in learning about 2024 volunteer opportunities at Olana State Historic Site. Volunteering with The Olana Partnership provides a great way to immerse yourself in one of the Hudson Valley’s most unique cultural treasures and interact with visitors who are looking to learn more about Olana and artist Frederic Church. To read the full press release, click here.

The Olana Partnership announces Paula Forman joined the Board of Trustees
TOP is the not-for-profit cooperative partner of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation at Olana State Historic Site and is the primary programming entity at Olana. TOP’s Board of Trustees provides leadership to realize its mission to inspire the public by preserving and interpreting Frederic Church’s Olana, a National Historic Landmark and the most significant artist-designed environment in the United States. To read the full press release, click here.

The Olana Partnership Launches First Free Third Thursday at Olana State Historic Site
The Olana Partnership will hold its first Olana Third Thursdays on January 18 from 11:00am to 5:00pm at Olana State Historic Site. Olana Third Thursdays are monthly days of free tours of the historic landscape and house and programs for all ages. On January 18, a special drop-in Artmaking in the Afternoon will take place from 1:00 PM to 5:00 PM in the Wagon House Education Center for all ages and skill levels, professional art supplies and refreshments are included. To read the full press release, click here.

SPECTACLE: Frederic Church and The Business of Art Opens at Olana State Historic Site; A 21st Century “Heart of the Andes” Debut at Olana
The Olana Partnership and Olana State Historic Site announced today the new exhibition titled, SPECTACLE: Frederic Church and The Business of Art opening November 19 at Olana. SPECTACLE will bring visitors a 21st century way of viewing Frederic Church’s great masterwork, The Heart of the Andes, and this exhibition highlights the showmanship and marketing that Church used to promote the debut of this work in 1859. To read the full press release, click here.

Construction Begins on the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape at Olana State Historic Site
New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (NYS OPRHP) and The Olana Partnership (TOP) announce that construction has begun for the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape at Olana State Historic Site. Designed by New York City-based Architecture Research Office (ARO), the Center will provide visitors with an immersive experience of the landscape, while serving Olana’s growing audience with orientation, education, tours, a café and other services. To read the full press release, click here.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Curator Elizabeth Kornhauser to Join The Olana Partnership; A National Frederic Church Bicentennial Celebration Planned for 2026
The Olana Partnership announces that Dr. Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, currently the Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art will be retiring from her position and joining The Olana Partnership as Consulting Senior Curator and Chair of The Church 200 Committee effective August 1. Dr. Kornhauser will lead planning efforts for a national celebration in 2026, the 200^th anniversary of the artist Frederic Church’s birth. To read the full press release, click here.

Contemporary Artist David Hartt Explores Olana’s Historic Photography Collection
The Olana Partnership announced that the special exhibition, Terraforming: Olana’s Historic Photography Collection Unearthed, will open at Olana State Historic Site on May 14. The exhibition focuses on Olana’s remarkable trove of nearly 5,000 19th century photographic prints, collected by the artist Frederic Church between 1850 and 1900. Until now, this nationally significant and intact photography collection has been little-known and unseen by the public. To read the full press release, click here.

Internationally Acclaimed Photographer Lynn Davis And Climate Scientist Anthony Leiserowitz to Speak Following a Special Screening of the 2021 Film MELTDOWN
The Olana Partnership, in collaboration with Basilica Hudson, Hudson Hall, Partners for Climate Action, and Upstate Films, is proud to present a special screening of the 2021 film MELTDOWN on Saturday, March 4 from 4-6pm at Hudson Hall. The screening will be followed by a special Q&A with trailblazing Hudson-based photographer Lynn Davis and climate scientist Anthony Leiserowitz, Ph.D.  To read the full press release, click here.

The Olana Partnership Awarded $148,500 by the New York State Council on the Arts
The Olana Partnership announced today a grant award totaling $148,500 over three years from the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) to support the recovery of the nonprofit arts and culture sector. Following New York State’s historic investment for the arts, NYSCA has awarded $90 million since Spring 2022 to a record number of artists and organizations across the state. The Olana Partnership is grateful to be among the recipients of this statewide investment in the arts. Since its creation by artist Frederic Church in the 19th century, to its current status as one of the most widely visited New York State Historic Sites and as a National Historic Landmark, Olana has always been a center of inspiration and creativity.  To read the full press release, click here.

Governor Hochul Announces $25 Million in Improvements at Olana State Historic Site
Governor Kathy Hochul today announced that Olana State Historic Site will undergo major capital and site improvement projects over the next two years, including construction of the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape, a new entry and orientation facility at the historic site in Hudson, Columbia County. The sustainably designed, all-electric Frederic Church Center will be a gateway to all visitors to Olana State Historic Site and is the marquee project of a $25 million investment to the site.” The new projects will build on the legacy of Olana – the visionary home, studio and landscape design of artist Frederic Church and his family,” Governor Hochul said. “The Frederic Church Center will add to this canvas and help to welcome patrons to one of the most strikingly beautiful places in New York State.” To read the full press release, click here.

Inaugural Winter Exhibition Opens at Olana; Chasing Icebergs: Art and a Disappearing Landscape, Frederic Church’s Historic Art Expedition Shines New Light on Contemporary Climate Challenges
The Olana Partnership, in collaboration with the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation, presents Chasing Icebergs: Art and a Disappearing Landscape, the first winter exhibition at Olana State Historic Site. The exhibition, shown primarily in the Sharp Family Gallery at Olana, highlights Frederic Church’s iceberg sketches from his 1859 intrepid voyage to the Arctic. Risking his life, Church chartered a ship to the treacherous waters surrounding Newfoundland and Labrador—an area known as Iceberg Alley—on a mission that made him the first American artist to explore the region for the purpose of painting icebergs, a landmark event in the history of art. To read the full press release, click here.

Sacred Site at Olana by Artist Diana Wege Highlights Intersection of Art and Environmental History
Artist and environmentalist Diana Wege studied one of Frederic Church’s masterpieces for a decade. Her impulse was to focus on Church’s traditional representation of Niagara Falls as a way to raise contemporary awareness of the climatic and environmental challenges we face today. The result is Sacred Site, an installation of twelve hand-painted full-scale replicas of Church’s largest painting, Niagara, from the American Side. Placed in the North Meadow at Olana State Historic Site, this installation is accessible and free for all visitors to Olana’s designed historic landscape. To read the full press release, click here.

The Olana Partnership Announces New Chair of Board of Trustees and Elects Three New Trustees
The Olana Partnership (TOP) is pleased to announce the election of Peter Warwick as Chair of the Board of Trustees and of Janet S. Dicke, Elizabeth Graziolo, and Emily Sachar to first terms as trustees. TOP is a not-for-profit educational 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. Trustees provide leadership to realize TOP’s vision to fully restore Olana as the country’s most significant artist-designed environment. To read the full press release, click here.

Assemblymember Barrett Secures $1 million in Assembly Funding for Olana
Assemblymember Didi Barrett (D-Dutchess/Columbia) joined with NYS Commissioner of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Erik Kulleseid, to announce that she has secured $1 million to support capital development plans for Olana State Historic Site. This is the largest single grant from the Assembly to a NYS Historic Site. The funds will be allocated towards the construction of The Frederic Church Center, a new visitor entry and orientation facility that will transform the visitor experience. The project is the linchpin of the site’s larger capital development plan being undertaken by the public-private partnership of the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and The Olana Partnership. To read the full press release, click here.

Olana and Drawing America Host The First Annual OLANA Plein Air Festival
Drawing America, The Olana Partnership, and Olana State Historic Site announce the Olana Plein Air Festival on Saturday, September 25. Participants of all skill-levels are invited to participate in this exciting all-day festival taking place at Olana State Historic Site. To read the full press release, click here.

Olana Receives Major Grant to Fund Ladder of Lifelong Learning
The Olana Partnership received a generous two-year grant directed by Kate Gubelmann to formalize a ladder of lifelong learning and engagement at Olana State Historic Site. This support will sustain four key areas of public programming: K 12 in-person and virtual school visits; Panorama Summer Learning Program for Youth; Young at HeART creative aging program for adults 55+; and a new internship and work development program created in partnership with New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation and Columbia Greene Community College. Supporting programs that serve these broad audience groups will provide new opportunities within local communities for expanded, ongoing public engagement centered on Olana as a public resource. To read the full press release, click here.

Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment Collaborative Exhibition Focuses on Historic and Contemporary Environmentalism at Olana State Historic Site and Thomas Cole National Historic Site
The Olana Partnership, Olana State Historic Site, and the Thomas Cole National Historic Site announced today that Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our Contemporary Moment will open on June 12 at the two historic sites–the only opportunity to see the unique presentation of the exhibition in New York, in the landscapes and historic spaces that so dramatically influenced and continue to influence the evolution of art in America. For the first time in over two decades, 16 paintings from the influential series of hummingbirds and habitats–The Gems of Brazil (1863-64)–by Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) will be on view in New York for public audiences. The project uses the metaphor of cross-pollination inspired by Heade’s paintings to explore interconnections in art and science, between artists, and across the 19th and 21st centuries. Paintings, sketches, sculptures, and natural history specimens will be displayed in provocative juxtapositions. To read the full press release, click here.

The Olana Partnership Receives Grant for Hudson River Skywalk Trailhead Design
The Olana Partnership is pleased to announce that it was awarded a $14,400 matching grant from the Environmental Protection Fund’s Park and Trail Partnership Grants program administered by Parks & Trails New York. The grant will fund the design of the trailhead for pedestrians entering Olana State Historic Site from the Hudson River Skywalk from State Route 23. To read the full press release, click here.

Governor Cuomo Announces New Investments to Increase Tourism in the Catskills and Hudson Valley Region
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced the fulfillment of a three-phase, $11.1 million tourism initiative for the Upper Hudson Valley Region. A $4.5 million, pedestrian friendly roundabout to improve pedestrian and traffic safety, and link two nearby historic sites. In addition, a sidewalk leading from Thomas Cole National Historic Site to the Rip Van Winkle Bridge is substantially complete, which allows visitors to walk along the Hudson River Skywalk in Greene County and eventually up to the Olana State Historic Site in Columbia County. To read the full press release, click here.

Governor Cuomo Announces Grand Opening of Hudson River Skywalk for National Trails Day
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced the opening of the Hudson River Skywalk to commemorate National Trails Day. Following an $11.1 million investment by the State, the completed project extends the historic and scenic walkway along the Rip Van Winkle Bridge to connect the two founding sites of America’s first art movement: the Thomas Cole National Historic Site and Olana State Historic Site. The Hudson River Skywalk includes new pedestrian viewing stations on the bridge that allow for stunning views of the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains, as well as safe pedestrian access to the two historic sites and a new visitor parking area on the east side of the bridge. To read the full press release, click here.

Second Annual Skywalk Arts Festival
The Second Annual Hudson River Skywalk Arts Festival Will Take Place on September 30 at Three Locations: the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, and Olana State Historic Site. The Hudson River Skywalk Arts Festival is presented by Historic Bridges of the Hudson Valley, in conjunction with the New York State Bridge Authority and the two historic sites, and celebrates the art of the Hudson Valley and the Hudson River Skywalk Initiative, which will physically link the Thomas Cole Site and Frederic Church’s Olana across the Hudson River. The Festival includes free special events at all three locations in the Hudson River Skywalk Region. To read the full press release, click here.

The Olana Partnership Awarded $420,000 Environmental Protection Fund Historic Preservation Grant for Historic Farm Landscape Restoration
The Olana Partnership (TOP) has been awarded a $420,000 grant from the New York State Environmental Protection Fund (EPF) Historic Preservation Program to help fund the restoration of Frederic Church’s historic farm at Olana State Historic Site. The award announced last month by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo is part of the annual Regional Economic Development Council Initiative (REDC) grant process and was the second largest grant made in Columbia County. To read the full press release, click here.

The Olana Partnership and the Thomas Cole National Historic Site Were Awarded a Collaborative Marketing Grant for $225,000 As Part Of The 2017 Regional Economic Council Awards
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site (TCNHS) and The Olana Partnership (TOP) are excited to announce that they have been awarded $225,000 for a joint marketing grant from New York State through the Regional Economic Development Council Awards, Empire State Development Program. The project will further the transformation of these two historic sites into major economic drivers for the area by working together to promote the Skywalk region as a comprehensive and internationally significant destination. To read the full press release, click here.

“OVERLOOK” Exhibition at Olana Features a Groundbreaking Site-Specific Installation by Artist Teresita Fernández
The ground-breaking exhibition “OVERLOOK: Teresita Fernández Confronts Frederic Church at Olana” will open on Sunday, May 14 at Olana State Historic Site. In this exhibition, an innovative collaboration between The Olana Partnership and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC), artist Teresita Fernández examines Frederic Church and his contemporaries’ response to the cultures and landscapes they experienced during their 19th-century Latin American travels. To read the full press release, click here.

Olana State Historic Site Celebrates 50th Anniversary
On Monday morning, June 27, The Olana Partnership and the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation will mark the 50th anniversary of the creation of Olana State Historic Site. On June 27, 1966 (also a Monday), Gov. Nelson A. Rockefeller arrived by helicopter to sign the Lane-Newcombe Bill into law, which authorized the state to purchase Frederic Church’s Olana, saving America’s most intact artist’s home, studio, and landscape from destruction. To read the full press release, click here.

The Olana Partnership Announces New Exhibition: Follies, Function & Form: Imagining Olana’s Summer House
The Olana Partnership, in collaboration with the New York chapters of the American Institute of Architects (AIANY) and the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA-­‐NY), is pleased to announce a design exhibition at Olana State Historic Site in Hudson, New York. Titled Follies, Function & Form: Imagining Olana’s Summer House, the exhibition unites noted architects and landscape architects and is curated by The Olana Partnership with guest co-­‐curator Jane Smith, AIA, of Spacesmith. The exhibition addresses one of the great mysteries at Olana–the Summer House–and it runs from August 14 through November 13 in Olana’s Coachman’s House Gallery. To read the full press release, click here.

Olana Opens New Exhibition: Mystery Box: Student Artists at Work
The Olana Partnership and Bard College have partnered for a second year to create a student exhibition titled Mystery Box: Student Artists at Work in the Coachman’s House Gallery at Olana State Historic Site, on view from June 4 to July 31. To read the full press release, click here.

Historic Landscape Tours Give Visitors a New View of Olana and Celebrate Frederic Church’s Legacy
The Olana Partnership is launching the 2016 season at Olana by introducing regular public tours of Olana’s historic landscape. This is a dramatic and fundamental expansion of the visitor experience and coincides with the 50^th Anniversary of the saving of Olana from the brink of destruction. Landscape tours will begin on Friday, May 20 and continue through Sunday, November 6. To read the full press release, click here.

The Olana Partnership Awarded $24,380 for Historic Landscape Tours this Spring
The Olana Partnership was awarded a $24,380 matching grant from the Environmental Protection Fund’s (EPF) Park and Trail Partnership Program to provide interpretative materials for historic landscape tours launching alongside regular house tours this spring. The launch of landscape tours is part of the organization’s celebrations around the 50^th Anniversary of the saving of Olana from destruction in 1966. To read the full press release, click here.

The Olana Partnership Brings Internationally Acclaimed Author Andrea Wulf to Hudson
The Olana Partnership proudly presents an illustrated lecture and book signing with internationally acclaimed author Andrea Wulf at Hudson High School on Saturday, April 9 at 4:00 PM. The event will be Wulf’s first East Coast stop on her United States and United Kingdom tour. To read the full press release, click here.

Thomas Cole National Historic Site and The Olana Partnership Win National Grant
The National Park Foundation awarded a $9,000 grant to Thomas Cole National Historic Site and The Olana Partnership to pay for the transportation costs for 4th graders from local public schools to visit these two historic sites. To read the full press release, click here.

The Olana Partnership Announces Appointment of New Vice President for Development
Christine Kane recently joined the staff of The Olana Partnership (TOP) as Vice President for Development. She is responsible for the planning and implementation of all fundraising, marketing, and outreach efforts for TOP, the non-profit partner of New York State’s Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. To read the full press release, click here.

Groundswell 2015
The Olana Partnership and Wave Farm’s WGXC 90.7-FM are pleased to co-present a third iteration of their award-winning exhibition event Groundswell. On Saturday, September 19, 2015, hundreds will converge at Olana State Historic Site for site-specific performance and works in sound, installation, broadcast, and movement. To read the full press release, click here.

Creating Landscapes Within the Landscape: Fourth Annual Plein Air Paint-Out and Festival
Columbia County Council on the Arts (CCCA) and The Olana Partnership will host the 4th annual en plein air event, “Creating Landscapes within the Landscape,” held at Olana State Historic Site from Thursday, July 9 through Sunday, July 12, 2015. To read the full press release, click here.

Artists on Art Tours
The Olana Partnership announces special artist-led tours to illuminate the exhibition River Crossings: Contemporary Art Comes Home. Artists on Art Tours are offered at Olana every Saturday from June 13 through October 31, 2015. To read the full press release, click here.

The Olana Partnership Announces Appointment of New President
Sean E. Sawyer, Ph.D. has been appointed as the Washburn and Susan Oberwager President of The Olana Partnership (TOP). He will join Olana on May 18. Mr. Sawyer’s appointment comes as the result of a national search to find a visionary, strategic thinker and operational leader for TOP’s staff, programs, and mission. To read the full press release, click here.

River Crossings Exhibition Will Bring Contemporary Art by World-Renowned Artists Back to the Homes Where Distinctly American Art Was Born
The Thomas Cole National Historic Site and The Olana Partnership announced today that they will co-host a landmark exhibition of contemporary art to highlight the pivotal role that the two historic properties–and the artists who lived and worked there–played in shaping America’s culture of contemporary art. To read the full press release, click here.

The Olana Partnership Announces Interim President
David Redden, Vice President of Sotheby’s NYC and President of The Olana Partnership Board of Trustees, has confirmed the appointment of Rena Zurofsky as Interim President of The Olana Partnership. To read the full press release, click here.

The Olana Partnership Awarded $200,000 ESDC Marketing Grant for River Crossings
The Olana Partnership (TOP) and the Thomas Cole National Historic Site (TCNHS) are partnering to launch a joint exhibition of contemporary art, entitled River Crossings: Contemporary Art Comes Home. Click here for entire press release in PDF format.

Olana Receives Stewart’s Holiday Match Grant
The Olana Partnership announced that it received a grant of $1,500 from the Stewart’s Holiday Match program. The grant will be used to support children’s programs and activities in the Wagon House Education Center at Olana State Historic Site during the 2014 season. To read the full press release, click here.

Birding 101 with Audubon NY at Olana
The Olana Partnership is proud to offer First Day of Spring Birding with Audubon NY Education Coordinator Larry Federman on Thursday, March 20, from 9:00 – 11:00 AM at the Wagon House Education Center at Olana State Historic Site. Larry Federman will present on local birds found at Olana and in the Hudson Valley. Following the presentation, participants will be led on a guided walk in Olana’s beautiful artist-designed landscape. To read the full press release, click here.

All the Raj – Frederic Church and Lockwood de Forest; Painting, Decorating and Collecting at Olana, On View at Olana: May 11-November 2, 2014 
All the Raj – Frederic Church and Lockwood de Forest; Painting, Decorating and Collecting at Olana, an exhibition featuring oil sketches and decorative arts by landscape painter and 19th-century tastemaker Lockwood de Forest, will open at Olana, the historic home and studio of Frederic Church, on Sunday May 11, 2014. Lockwood de Forest (1850-1932) studied painting with the eminent landscape artist Frederic Church in the 1870s; the exhibition will begin by highlighting sketches showing that the two artists worked side by side at Olana. To read the full press release, click here.

Expert Report Identifies Solutions That Can Boost Emergency Communications, Minimize Impacts to Historic Site and its Economic Contributions
The Olana Partnership and Scenic Hudson today released a report, prepared by a nationally recognized telecommunications engineer, that supports their continuing efforts to resolve a dispute in order to both enhance emergency communications and preserve the visitor experience at Olana State Historic Site. Olana is one of the region’s most important historic sites and a major contributor to the local economy. To read the full press release, click here.

Olana Receives Grant for Programming from Hudson River Bank and Trust Company Foundation
The Olana Partnership announced that it received a grant of $30,000 over the next three years from the Hudson River Bank and Trust Company Foundation (HRBT). The grant will be used to support Olana’s programs and activities in the Wagon House Education Center and at Olana State Historic Site. To read the full press release, click here.

Cook Up a Delicious Meal at Olana with Chef Julie Gale
The Olana Partnership is pleased to offer “Heart and Hands Cooking Workshop” with local chef-instructor Julie Gale on Saturday, February 15 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM at the Wagon House Education Center at Olana. Julie Gale, owner of At the Kitchen Table Cooking School, will lead participants through a hands-on cooking demonstration and teach participants how to make a meal that your sweetheart is sure to enjoy. To read the full press release, click here.

The Olana Partnership Appoints Four New Members to the Board of Trustees
The governing members of The Olana Partnership elected four new members to the Board of Trustees at its January 25, 2014 board meeting. “Each of the new members brings a world class level of expertise to the board and will guide The Olana Partnership to new heights,” said Sara Griffen, President of The Olana Partnership. To read the full press release, click here.

Snowshoe Walk
The Olana Partnership is pleased to collaborate with environmental educator Fran Martino for a guided snowshoe walk at Olana State Historic Site on Saturday, February 8 from 1:00 – 3:00 PM, beginning at the Wagon House Education Center. Snow date of Sunday, February 9. To read the full press release, click here.

Capital Region Economic Development Council Announces Historical Preservation Projects Underway At Olana State Historic Site
The Capital Region Economic Development Council today announced The Olana Parternship, the non-profit support arm of the Olana State Historic Site, has signed its contract with the state and is moving forward with two critical historical preservation projects on the strength of $1.75 million in awards from key economic development initiatives advanced by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo. To read the full press release, click here.