Isabel Charlotte (Downie) Church and her grandmother, Emma Carnes, 1884. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. Olana State Historic Site. OL.1982.1520
The “stiff approach” to a country residence (left) and the “happiest effects” of a redesign following in “a magical manner…the principles of modern Landscape Gardening,” from Downing’s Treatise (1841), pp. 62-63Converging paths in The Ramble, Central Park, December 2016Ridge Road (left) and Bethune Road (right), February 2025Rustic seats in Andrew Jackson Downing’s Treatise (1841), p. 385A rustic bench in The Ramble, Central Park, March 2014Frederic E. Church, sketch of a rustic bench, 1889. Paper, graphite. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation & Historic Preservation. Olana State Historic Site. OL.1980.1579(V)
Rustic bench at the top of Crown HillEven the roadblocks at Olana have an artistic, rustic look.
The “Susie Barstow” tree at the junction of North Road and Ridge Road, February 2025Susie M. Barstow’s drawing of women climbing a tree. Courtesy Ken BarstowSusie M. Barstow, “The Old Camp by the Lakes,” ca. 1870. Photo by Dennis DeHart, permission courtesy Ken BarstowSusie Barstow in her hiking suit. Courtesy Ken BarstowFlorence Peek Abbott sketching by a stream. Photo courtesy of Ms. Abbott’s great-niece Ginny Folsom UmikerThree women at summit. From left: Hazel Peek, [unidentified], Theodora Beckwith. Courtesy of Ginny Folsom Umiker, granddaughter of Ms. Peek
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