Olana State Historic Site

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Frederic Edwin Church, Cosy Cottage, c. 1870?72. Shortly after Church's marriage to Isabel Carnes in 1860, the newlyweds hired the architect Richard Morris Hunt (1827?1895) to plan a small wood-frame house for them that they later named Cosy Cottage. Built on the 126-acre farmstead the artist had only recently purchased, the cottage was situated in the midst of the farm, with a kitchen garden, a floral cutting garden, and myriads of fruit trees just beyond its doorways. For a decade this house served as the family home until Church built the Persian-inspired villa at the hill's summit. Church often sketched throughout his property at Olana. This particular oil sketch was used as a guide in the reconstruction of a missing wing when the cottage was restored for adaptive reuse in 2006.

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Frederic Edwin Church, Cosy Cottage, c. 1870?72. Shortly after Church's marriage to Isabel Carnes in 1860, the newlyweds hired the architect Richard Morris Hunt (1827?1895) to plan a small wood-frame house for them that they later named Cosy Cottage. Built on the 126-acre farmstead the artist had only recently purchased, the cottage was situated in the midst of the farm, with a kitchen garden, a floral cutting garden, and myriads of fruit trees just beyond its doorways. For a decade this house served as the family home until Church built the Persian-inspired villa at the hill's summit. Church often sketched throughout his property at Olana. This particular oil sketch was used as a guide in the reconstruction of a missing wing when the cottage was restored for adaptive reuse in 2006.