Olana State Historic Site

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Frederic Joseph Church, Plan of Olana, September 1886. In 1886 Frederic Joseph Church documented Olana, the three-dimensional masterpiece created by his father. This plan executed in watercolor and ink includes the elements of the 250-acre design: the farm complex and orchards, the 10-acre man-made lake, meadows, parkland, native woodlands, and the Persian-inspired main house?all connected by more than five miles of carriage roads. Historians have consulted this document to assist them with restoration plans for Olana's landscape.
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