Olana is Frederic Edwin Church’s (1826-1900) most personal creation, his most complex work of art and his last great masterpiece—a three-dimensional Hudson River landscape crowned with his own Persian treasure house.

While Church’s explorations took him from the jungles of South America to the icebergs of the North Atlantic, from his earliest days as a painter he continued to be drawn to the Hudson River and the Catskill Mountains. In 1860, he purchased the first of several parcels of land south of Hudson, New York, which he would transform into his home, Olana.

Named by the Churches for “a fortress treasure house” in ancient Persia, Olana encompasses the house, the farm and the entire 250-acre picturesque landscape. more