The Olana State Historic Site is the home of Frederic Edwin Church, the most celebrated painter of the Hudson River School. Church dedicated his life to creating art that focused on the beauty and importance of the nature that surrounds us, especially that of the Hudson Valley. He carefully designed the landscape at Olana to frame inspirational vistas from all vantage points.
Below are before and after depictions of one of Church's deliberately framed vistas, from Cosy Cottage that sits on the eastern edge of the Olana property. |
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| View from Cosy Cottage at Olana |
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Existing view from Cosy Cottage at Olana. |
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Photo simulation of proposed SLC plant in same view. |
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This vista is within the Catskill-Olana Scenic Area of Statewide Significance, which is a legally protected viewshed. The designation affords a heightened degree of protection. Nevertheless, SLC intends to mar this view.
This photo simulation is illustrative of how SLC's proposal, crowned with a 406-foot smokestack, would impair this untainted viewshed by breaking the continuity of the existing sinewy landscape with an incongruous form. |
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