Frederic Joseph Church. Plan of Olana, 1886. Paper, ink & watercolor. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. Olana State Historic Site. OL.1984.39Landscape Curator Mark Prezorski uses the 1886 Plan of Olana to explain to visitors the restoration of Crown Hill. May 2013Mark Prezorski pauses an electric vehicle tour along Ridge Road, using the 1886 Plan of Olana to help interpret the landscapeEllen Harvey, “Winter in the Summer House,” part of the exhibition What’s Missing? Artworks in the Olana Landscape, January 2026. On Frederic Joseph Church’s Plan of Olana there is an intriguing designation for a long-lost “Summer House.”Ellen Harvey, “Winter in the Summer House,” part of the “What’s Missing” exhibition, July 2025. Ellen Harvey, “Winter in the Summer House,” part of the “What’s Missing” exhibition, July 2025. Inside the installation are mirrors engraved with parts of Church’s “The Icebergs,” 1861 and “Aurora Borealis,” 1865.
