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A History Mystery Case from Lebanon Valley Historical Society

The Lebanon Valley Historical Society has a “history mystery” that they would like our help with. The society is trying to determine where the house in the picture below is located.

Apparently the house was shown on a couple of H. M. Gillet’s postcards from the early 20th Century. The Historical Society believes that it is still standing, but may no longer have the entire elaborate porch. They say to look for the square widow’s watch on the top, which should help identify the house.

If you think you know where in Columbia County, NY, this house is, tell the Historical Society by leaving a comment under the house’s pictures on their FaceBook page.

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Behind the Scenes Winter Tour at Thomas Cole House

While we are all eagerly looking forward to spring, there are still two more winter tours scheduled at the Thomas Cole National Historic Site. These tours, give visitors a sneak preview into the behind-the-scenes installation of the Parlors Project, which integrates a meticulous historic restoration with interactive technology to bring to life the two main parlors of Thomas Cole’s home.

The project will reveal the only known interiors designed by Thomas Cole, the founder of the first American art movement, the Hudson River School of landscape painting. The interiors include recently discovered original decorative painted borders by Cole himself and reveal another facet of Cole’s artistic vision that was previously lost to history.

DATE/TIME:
Sunday, March 12: 1:00pm & 3:30pm
Sunday, April 9: 1:00pm & 3:30pm

LOCATION:
Thomas Cole National Historic Site
218 Spring Street
Catskill, NY 12414
Meet on the porch of the Main House.

ADMISSION:
General Admission: $10
Tickets are for a specific date and time. Changes must be made in advance. No changes or cancellations may be made on the day of your visit.
To purchase tickets online, Click Here and select the date/time you want to visit.

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For more about the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, visit the site at thomascole.org.

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Chatham Bookstore Hosts Authors on Slavery in the Hudson Valley

in-defiance-cover Authors Susan Stessin-Cohn and Ashley Hurlburt-Biagini will read from, and discuss their book, “In Defiance: Runaways from Slavery in New York’s Hudson River Valley, 1735-1831,” at the Chatham Bookstore on Sunday. The reading will be followed by a conversation with the authors and Thomas Chulak from the bookstore.

DATE/TIME:
Sunday, March 5, from 2 to 4pm.

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The reading is Free.
Refreshments will be served.

LOCATION:
The Chatham Bookstore
27 Main Street in the Village of Chatham.

Visit ChathamBookStore.com for more info.

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Local History Talk: The Proprietors and their Lasting Influence on the City of Hudson by Carl G. Whitbeck, Jr.

The Hudson Area Library History Room, as part of its Local History Speaker Series, presents The Proprietors and their Lasting Influence on the City of Hudson by Carl G. Whitbeck, Jr.

Mr. Whitbeck, a local resident whose family has deep roots in the area, will offer a fascinating presentation on the Proprietors, the founders of Hudson, NY. They were a group of Quaker merchants from Nantucket Island and Providence, Rhode Island who sought to find a fertile land in which to establish a commercial settlement.

DATE/TIME:
Thursday, January 26 at 6:00 pm

LOCATION:
Hudson Area Association Library
51 N. 5th ST
Hudson, NY 12534
The event will be held in the library’s Community Room.

MORE:
The event is free and open to the public.
For more info, visit HudsonAreaLibrary.org by clicking here.
Tel: 518-828-1792

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Last Chance for Follies, Function & Form: Imagining Olana’s Summer House

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This week is the last chance to check out the exhibition, “Follies, Function & Form: Imagining Olana’s Summer House,” at Olana.

The 1886 Plan of Olana is highly accurate, however, the plans contain a mysterious structure labeled “Summer House”. According the the Olana site, “Summer houses were common in early American gardens and public landscapes, yet there is no documentary evidence about the style or form of this structure at Olana”. The exhibition asked 21 architects and landscape architects to imagine what the summer house and it’s environs might look like, then sketch those ideas, much in the way Frederic Church used sketches to convey his design and architectural ideas. Each designer was free to explore and combine historic and contemporary design themes.

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This exhibition is organized by The Olana Partnership, in collaboration with the New York Chapters of The American Institute of Architects (AIANY) and the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA-NY).

DATES/TIMES/ADMISSION:

The exhibition, which opened in August, will close on Sunday, November 13. Until then, it is open 10am-5pm at the Coachman’s House Gallery, and is free.

ADDRESS/CONTACT:
Olana Coachman’s House Gallery
5720 State Route 9G
Hudson, NY
Phone: 1 518 828-0135

For more info, check out http://www.Olana.org

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