PBS and The New York Post don’t often get mentioned in the same breath, but the latter has a feature today on Upstate estates which the paper considers “our very own versions of ‘Downton Abbey’: opulent mansions set on acres of manicured grounds with spectacular river and mountain views. They’re the legacies of old-money families like the Astors and Livingstons, the nouveaux riche Goulds and Vanderbilts, and celebrated painters like Frederic Edwin Church.”
About Olana, the Post writes that “it’s the grounds—all 250 acres—that were paramount to Church; every window of the house (especially the top floor) perfectly frame the artfully designed landscape, which includes an ornamental farm.”
(For those at all baffled by the headline above, Hudson has attempted to brand itself in recent years as “Upstate’s Downtown.”)
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About Olana, the Post writes that “it’s the grounds—all 250 acres—that were paramount to Church; every window of the house (especially the top floor) perfectly frame the artfully designed landscape, which includes an ornamental farm.”
(For those at all baffled by the headline above, Hudson has attempted to brand itself in recent years as “Upstate’s Downtown.”)
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