Olana was the home, studio, farm, and culminating masterpiece of Frederic Edwin Church, the preeminent 19th-century artist of the Hudson River School of landscape painting. Church envisioned the 250-acre site as a work of art, blending architecture and nature into a singular, immersive experience.

Open Council members are invited to a special “Summer Friday” tour with Architecture Research Office of the Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape, Olana’s new all-electric, mass timber welcome center, the first of its kind for a public building in New York State. The center anchors Nelson Byrd Woltz’s transformative landscape plan and introduces visitors to Church’s vision of nature and culture in harmony.