Kimberly Flook, Historic Site Manager, Olana State Historic Site 2016 is the 50th anniversary of the saving of Olana State Historic Site. While I have only been lucky enough to have worked at Olana for the last three years, by looking at what has been accomplished over the last 49 ...Read More

Alex Simon, Director of Membership and Community Relations Frederic Edwin Church? You’ve heard of him, right? American landscape painter, central figure in the Hudson River School. He was the creator of this masterpiece, Olana. And so are you. You restore the main building, preserve the collection, protect the viewshed, you ...Read More

Paul J. Banks, Interpretive Program Assistant People love Olana as much for the landscape as for the house and the treasures inside it. Be it a stroll around The Lake, or the stunning vistas from Ridge Road, or just the sound of the wind in the pines, the out ...Read More

Rena Zurofsky, Interim President Winter Sunset photo by Julia Thomas, 2014 I have just completed my first two month working, happily, for The Olana Partnership. It has been a time of intense learning, including some surprises. Before working here, I thought Olana (which loosely translates/is interpreted as a ...Read More

Mark Prezorski, Landscape Curator After Olana was saved from destruction in 1966, David Huntington — the art historian who led the preservation effort — commented about how ignorant the public had been of Olana. “Olana was not a girl, not an Hawaiian drink, and not a drug,” he joked. ...Read More

Evelyn Trebilcock, Curator and Valerie Balint, Associate Curator Custom carved teak balustrade in the Corridor of the house at Olana, provided by Lockwood de Forest and made by the Ahmedabad Wood Carving Company, India, c. 1887 photo by Melanie Hasbrook 2014 There has recently been a revival of ...Read More