Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 is widely regarded as one

is widely regarded as one of the Hudson Valley’s most important examples of Victorian architecture

American arts and literature and the environment

sometimes from fire and other accidental causes

drawn from Olana's permanent collection

Book One: The Northern Catskills includes hikes through some of the most magnificent scenery in the Eastern United States

Sanctified Landscape: Writers, Artists, and the Hudson River Valley, 1820–1909 is widely regarded as oneThe Hudson River Valley was the first iconic American landscape. Beginning as early as the 1820s, artists and writers found new ways of thinking about the human relationship with the natural world along the Hudson. Here, amid the most dramatic river and mountain scenery in the eastern United States, Washington Irving and James Fenimore Cooper created a distinctly American literature, grounded in folklore and history, that contributed to the emergence