Gov. Nelson Rockefeller (left) and David Huntington in the bell tower at Olana, June 27, 1966. Courtesy of the Register-Star/Columbia-Greene MediaDavid Carew Huntington. Faculty and staff biographical files, Smith College Archives, Smith College Special Collections, Northampton, MassachusettsCoverage in the Register-Star Gov. Rockefeller’s historic visit to Olana. Photo courtesy Dorothy Heyl
A staffer from NYS Parks cutting the meadow along Ridge Road. October 2022Kids participating in a summer program hosted by The Olana Partnership, August 2025A tree stump along Lake Road recalls the Manhattan skyline President of The Olana Partnership Sean Sawyer addressing “Art and Landscape,” the first public event held at the Frederic Church Center, June 14, 2025Over the years The Olana Partnership & NYS Parks worked to bury the overhead power lines that were installed in the 20th century. This scar, visible from the Rip Van Winkle Bridge, is the last visible remnant of the poles, the last of which was removed in July 2008. Photo taken in February 2014In autumn the NYS Parks staff uses a machine to clear the roads of fallen leaves. A volunteer with The Olana Partnership works in the gardens near the Frederic Church Center for Art & Landscape, August 2025
The Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape, August 2025The Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape, February 2025The Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape, with the Catskills in the distance, May 2025“Art and Landscape,” the first public event held at the Frederic Church Center, June 14, 2025 A volunteer with The Olana Partnership working in the gardens near the Frederic Church Center, August 2025
The Otis Elevating Railway and, at top left, the Catskill Mountain House, ca. 1902. Detroit Publishing Co., Library of CongressGetting to the Catskill Mountain House by boat and rail. Source: Hudson River By Day Light, Wallace Bruce, 1898William Henry Bartlett’s “View from the Mountain House, Catskill,” engraved by Robert Brandard, ca. 1839Hudson River Day Line steamer Albany after passing under the Poughkeepsie Bridge, bet. 1900 – 1910. Detroit Publishing Co., Library of CongressWilliam Gray Hassler and Ethel Magaw Hassler on a Hudson River Day Line ferry from New York to Poughkeepsie, watching a train go over the Poughkeepsie Bridge, September 10, 1915. Photo courtesy The New-York Historical Replica of the Seneca Chief passes the Catskill Mountain House site on a historic voyage from Buffalo to NYC in observance of the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Erie Canal
The passage in The Geography of Strabo describing the treasure-storehouse of Olane, after which Olana is named. John Ashbury’s poem “Some Trees” in the Wagon House Education Center, part of “Poetry in the Parks,” a state-wide celebration of the Centennial of New York’s parks
