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Photograph of Olana State Historic Site
Photograph by Netniks, CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Olana

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1872 (Moorish Revival architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. 12 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1895.

From the record

“Olana State Historic Site is a historic house museum and landscape in Greenport, New York, near the city of Hudson. The estate was home to Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), one of the major figures in the Hudson River School of landscape painting.”

Wikipedia article Olana State Historic Site, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 155 National Register listings published here for Columbia County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · built in 1872, Moorish Revival architecture, by Calvert Vaux, Frederic Edwin Church · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. Church Hill, E end of Rip Van Winkle Bridge, Church Hill, 12534
  • When was it listed? October 1966
  • Category. building
  • Town. Greenport town
  • When was it built? 1872
  • Architectural style. Moorish Revival architecture
  • Architect. Calvert Vaux, Frederic Edwin Church
  • National Register reference number. 66000509 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

253 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 253 fires within 5 miles of Olana between 1992 and 2020, burning about 289 acres in total. 24 started naturally. 19 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined123
Debris and open burning37
Natural24
Smoking23
Arson/incendiarism19
Equipment and vehicle use14
Railroad operations and maintenance6
Misuse of fire by a minor4
Recreation and ceremony3

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2005Debris and open burningunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2010Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
30 September 2007Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
29 September 2020Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA
28 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
26 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
24 September 2017Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkN/A
22 September 2014Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named

Every fire recorded in Columbia County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Olana: 17 past producers, 16 producers, 2 occurrences. 16 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Sulfur, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Limestone, General. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Austin's Glen DepositQuartzOccurrence
Diamond Hill DepositQuartzOccurrence
Fabiano PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Kearny PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Catskill Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Catskill QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Colarusso QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Hudson Clay PitClayProducer
Hudson Limestone QuarryLimestone, GeneralProducerLimestone
Hudson QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary

Every working recorded in Columbia County

Maps showing this location

12 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Oak Hill1.4 miles1979
Oliver Wiswall House2.4 miles1980
Hudson/Athens Lighthouse2.7 miles1979
Dr. Oliver Bronson House and Stables2.9 miles1973
Dr. Oliver Bronson House and Stables2.9 miles1973
Dr. Oliver Bronson House and Estate2.9 miles2003

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 66000509 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Columbia CountyAll 155 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.