FROM THE PRESIDENT
2023 was a year of consistent progress for The Olana Partnership in working toward the three primary goals of our 2021-2026 Strategic Plan. Across all areas of our public facing work, from visitor services and education to development and communications, we strove to engage visitors and our communities with Frederic Church’s holistic vision for Olana and its relevance for contemporary audiences. Our public tour attendance grew by 9%, with 20% of ticketed visitors taking a landscape tour. Growing participation in landscape tours is critical to providing a richer and deeper visitor experience, and our Visitor Engagement team had great success with the introduction of the Landscape and Historic House Combo Tour. The frontline experimentation lays the foundation for our expanded operations once the Frederic Church Center for Art & Landscape opens. On that front, construction started in January 2023, and the building was roofed and framed in by the end of the year.
Our two-person Education and Public Programs team did remarkable work in sustaining and growing partnerships with a wide range of local and regional organizations. Our workforce development internship program with Columbia-Greene Community College had a successful second year, and we laid the groundwork for expanding the program into other areas of the college’s curriculum. We had another wonderful “Olana Movie Night” with Upstate Films and completed an ambitious new partnership with Site Specific Dances, whose original choreography embraced all of Olana and its viewshed. It was a year of dramatic grown for our Regional Library Membership program, which is just one way in which The Olana Partnership provides free access to our tours for local residents.
Our strategic plan calls for The Olana Partnership to bring Olana to the national stage. The most critical initiative in this direction is Frederic Church 200, an international program of exhibitions, publications, and events around the bicentennial of Church’s birth in 2026. In August 2023, we took a key step in welcoming Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Curator Emerita of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American Wing and one of the most prominent scholars of American art, as our Senior Consulting Curator. Betsy is heading up our team for Frederic Church 200, alongside myself and Mark Prezorski. In 2023 we also welcomed our new Exhibitions Manager, Blakely Kralovec, whose organizational and administrative expertise is critical to the implementation of Frederic Church 200 as well as our annual cycle of special exhibitions.
Our third strategic goal to build our capacity to accelerate Olana’s impact was bolstered by the success of our annual Frederic Church Awards on April 19 honoring Kelly Williams, Sarah Coffin, and Lynn Davis. Our regional fundraiser in 2023 was “The Olana Viewshed Tour” and brought our supporters together to explore amazing private properties within sight of Olana. The autumn brought the great news that The Olana Partnership received a three-year, $240,000 grant from the Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program to provide a monthly day of free public tours and programming starting in January 2024.
Our successes all stem from the extraordinary commitment of our staff and volunteers working alongside our colleagues at the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation and the Bureau of Historic Sites. None of this would be possible without the enthusiastic support of our members and donors at all levels. On behalf of The Olana Partnership’s Board of Trustees, I extend our sincerest appreciation and gratitude.
Sean E. Sawyer, Ph.D. Washburn and Susan Oberwager President
ESTIMATED IMPACT OF OLANA VISITOR CENTER EXPANSION
OLANA ECONOMIC IMPACT WILL INCREASE TO OVER $15.7 MILLION AND 240 JOBS AFTER EXPANSION
The planned expansion of the visitor center at the Olana State Historic Site will significantly increase the economic impact and jobs supported by Olana in the Capital Region, as compared to the estimated impacts for 2023. Impacts result from annual spending by Olana on its operations and from the spending by visitors that come to Olana each year. Additional impacts result from capital spending, including the one-time impact of the planned expansion of the Olana visitor center. The expansion will allow Olana to accommodate more visitors and result in increased spending on operations. In addition, the investment by Olana in the expanded visitor center will also have an economic impact and support jobs during the time which the project is being completed.
Estimates were developed of the value added economic impact of Olana operations spending, capital spending and spending by visitors. The jobs supported by Olana include those employed at Olana, jobs supported by the spending of visitors to Olana, and jobs supported at businesses that serve Olana.
The above economic impact estimates were developed using the RIMS economic impact model, a widely used and accepted methodology for estimating local economic impacts. Inputs for these calculations came from the following:
• Projected number of visitors to Olana in 2025 (203,500, including house tours, groups, events, and visitors to grounds).
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• Projected operations spending, capital spending and employment for TOP and OPRHP in 2025.
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• Estimated cost of the visitor center expansion project.
• from “Results of an Online Survey of Residents, Visitors and Potential Visitors to the Hudson NY Area” conducted by Audience Research & Analysis, June
• Visitor spending estimates were developed based on survey information of visitors to Hudson from “Results of an Online Survey of Residents, Visitors and Potential Visitors to the Hudson NY Area” conducted by Audience Research & Analysis, June 2017 and from visitor spending patterns for historic sites from the National Park Service.
Based on these inputs, RIMS estimates the multiplier effect of spending generated by Olana operations, capital spending and visitors that come to Olana. The multiplier impact refers to additional spending in the community by employees spending their wages locally, local spending by vendors that serve Olana and spending by those that receive tourism dollars from visitors to Olana. Similarly, the model calculates the number of jobs in the community that are supported by this spending. The economic impact estimated is the value added to the local economy as a result of the economic activity generated. Value added represents the sum total of increased value to goods and services that is generated by the local activities being evaluated and is the most commonly used measure of such economic activity.
All numbers include the combined impacts of Olana State Historic Site, as managed by the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Places (OPRHP) and its non-profit partner, The Olana Partnership (TOP)
Prepared by Brian Zweig of Business Opportunities Management
June 2024.
ABOUT THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP
The Olana Partnership (TOP) is an educational nonprofit organization that is the collaborate partner of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation (OPRHP) at Olana State Historic Site. Our mission is to inspire the public by preserving and interpreting Frederic Church’s Olana.
TOP’s predecessor, Olana Preservation, Inc., was formed in 1964 to save Olana from sale and destruction and in 1966 purchased the house, its contents and land and conferred them to New York State. TOP itself was organized as a 501(c)3 organization under the name Friends of Olana in 1971. We adopted our current name in 2000 to express the central importance of partnership in the preservation and interpretation of Olana, especially with OPRHP.
Over the past twenty-five years, TOP has collaborated with OPRHP to preserve and restore Olana’s historic architecture and landscape. While much has been accomplished, this is an ongoing and continuous process. In 2015 we partnered in the development of Olana’s Strategic Landscape Design Plan. This provides a road map to completing the restoration of all 250-acres of the designed landscape and surviving historic structures, including Olana’s farm complex. The linchpin of this plan is the Frederic Church Center for Art & Landscape, which is scheduled to be completed in autumn 2024.
Throughout this time, TOP has led efforts to protect Olana’s integral viewshed, and our work is a national model for such endeavors. Olana and TOP played crucial roles in preventing the construction of a nuclear power plant at Cementon in the 1970s and the St. Lawrence Cement Plant in Greenport in the 1990s. Alongside these high profile cases, TOP has partnered with OPRHP, Scenic Hudson, Open Space Institute, and private landowners to place over 3,000 acres within view of Olana under conservation easements.
TOP is extremely proud of our record of achievement and of the exceptional educational and cultural experiences TOP provides for the tens of thousands who visit and engage each year. Through guided tours of the house and landscape, special exhibitions, educational offerings and other public programs, TOP provides unparalleled opportunities to engage the imagination; encourage creativity; and explore art, architecture and the environment.
Images: Top: Summer Solstice event Left to Right: Terraforming with curator David Hartt, visitors enjoying the view, Bee program with Fox Farm Apiary, School group at Olana.
OUR MISSION
The Olana Partnership is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to inspire the public by preserving and interpreting Frederic Church’s OLANA, a New York State Historic Site and a National Historic Landmark in the Hudson River Valley Region.
OLANA NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
J. Winthrop Aldrich
Leslie Greene Bowman
Bonnie Burnham
Sarah D. Coffin
Will Cotton
Linda S. Ferber
Stephen Hannock
Eleanor Jones Harvey
Inge Heckel
Morrison Heckscher
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Peter Warwick, Chair
Stephen Clearman, Vice Chair
Janet S. Dicke, Vice Chair
Robin M. Key, FASLA, Vice Chair
Susan Winokur, Vice Chair
Lucy S. Rhame, Treasurer
Margaret Davidson, Secretary
Valerie Hegarty
Franklin Wood Kelly
Elizabeth Kornhauser
- as of December 31, 2023
Katherine E. Manthorne
George W. McDaniel
- as of December 31, 2023
Joe Baker
Sheila A. Bridges
Elizabeth Broun
Laurel Durst
Meyer S. Frucher
Olivia J. Fussell
Elizabeth Graziolo
Phoebe Gubelmann
Christine Jones
Meredith J. Kane
Belinda K. Kaye
Ricky Lark
Elizabeth A. Mason
Richard N. McCarthy
Laurie Norton Moffatt
Laurie Olin, FASLA
Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr.
Barbara Tober
Jamie Carano Nordenström
Emily Sachar
Jane Smith, FAIA
Sedgwick A. Ward
Kelly M. Williams
Karen Zukowski
OUR VISION
The Olana Partnership envisions Frederic Church’s OLANA, vibrant with the activity of visitors, students, scholars and artists, as the most widely recognized artist’s home and studio in the world.
THE OLANA PARTNERSHIP STAFF
Senior Leadership & Full Time Staff
Sean E. Sawyer, Ph.D., Washburn & Susan Oberwager President
Mark Prezorski, Senior Vice President & Landscape Curator
Mary Lawrie, Vice President of Visitor Engagement & Business Operations
Allegra Davis, Associate Curator
Melanie Hasbrook, Director of Advancement & Marketing
Carolyn Keogh, Director of Education & Public Programs
Hiro Kitamura, Director of Finance & Human Resources
Rachel Tice, Director of Retail Operations
Joyce Batterton, Executive Assistant & Office Manager
Lorraine Bulson, Bookkeeper & Human Resource Assistant
Blakely Kralovec, Collections Manager
Nicole Madden, Development Associate
Gracie Mills, Education Coordinator
Lauren Miller, Membership & Volunteer Coordinator
Erin Orison, Visitor Services Engagement Coordinator
Hannah Scott, Director of Visitor Services & Engagement
- as of December 31, 2023
Part Time Staff
Stephen Blendell, Interpreter
Ida Brier, Librarian/Archivist
Paul Davis, Interpreter
Elle Dietemann, Customer Service Associate
Nordica Holochuck, Interpreter
Elizabeth Kornhauser, Consulting Senior Curator & Chair of the Church 200 Committee
Ellen Kulisek, Interpreter
Rebekah Leatherman, Customer Service Associate
Betsy Mattice, Interpreter
Interpreter
G Muñoz, Inventory Assistant
Donald Pedersen, Interpreter
Diana Perretti, Interpreter
Bailey Reed, Staff Accountant
Jennifer Scheitinger, Customer Service Associate
Celine Smith, Assistant Manager
Donna Strietz, Interpreter
Florence Umezaki, Interpreter
VISITOR OPERATIONS & ENGAGEMENT
In 2023, TOP’s Visitor Services & Engagement team made steady progress toward our strategic goals of whole-site interpretation and expanding access to diverse audiences. Ticketed tour participation increased by 9% overall, and 20% of tickets were for landscape tours, and increase of 15% over 2022. Responding to guest feedback, TOP introduced a 2-hour Combo tour, which bundles tours of the house and landscape. We continue to encourage visitors to explore the landscape on their own, via map or audio-guide download. To this end, TOP beta-tested a new, user-friendly walking map, with the goal of rolling out the finished product in spring 2024.
A key strategic goal for TOP is increasing access for diverse audiences across all our programming. For Visitor Services, our principal tactics are to lower the financial threshold for public tours and to build Spanish language access for public tours and at the frontline greeting and ticketing processes. In 2023, TOP introduced free tours for SNAP/EBT cardholders and increased the age for free children’s tours from
12 to 16. We also built on existing discounts for NYS residents, members, veterans, and our regional Library Pass program. Notably, the free Library Pass program continued to grow, and use on Main Floor tours was up 30% over the previous year, representing $19,000 in visitor savings. Overall, TOP provided visitors with over $77,000 in discounts for adult tours and over $100,000 with children included. At the end of the year, TOP was awarded a $240,000, three-year grant from the Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program to introduce one day per month of free public tours and programs. We will launch “Third Thursdays/Tercer Jueves” in 2024.
TOP successfully launched a limited run of Spanish language tours, and we continue to work on targeted promotion and outreach. Visitor Services’ main hiring goal in 2024 will be to bring on more bilingual and multilingual Visitor Services staff, and Spanish language offerings are a key component of the free “Third Thursday/Tercer Jeuves” programming planned for 2024.
Top: Walking Landscape Tour
WHAT VISITORS ARE SAYING
We continue to receive overwhelming positive feedback from guests responding to their posttour surveys. We loved our electric tour guide, and we are so inspired by the passion of everyone at Olana.
My guide was great, informative, knowledgeable, friendly, witty and was able to answer any question that was asked of him.
The “Terraforming” exhibition was something completely new to me, but the staff was excellent at explaining what it was. I loved that by doing the electric car tour, we got to see the exhibition in action in the landscape!
It was a pleasure to participate in this knowledgeable guided tour. I’ve already recommended to some friends and family to have a tour of the site not only for the magnificent views but also for the history of this New York State Park. Thank you!
EDUCATION & PUBLIC PROGRAMS
TOP continued building partnerships with key regional organizations to expand the reach of Olana’s programs to new audiences. TOP built upon our work with other nonprofits and community organizations like the Sylvia Center, Upstate Films, Columbia Land Conservancy and Cornell Cooperative Extension of Columbia and Greene Counties. We continued our partnership with the Hudson Area Library on our first Spanish-language program for families at Olana, Arte y Lugares Especiales, and hosted an open house at the Library to support literacy efforts and promote new Spanish-language tours at Olana. Additionally, we explored new partnerships, working with the
choreography non-profit, Site-Specific Dances, to host a month-long residency at Olana State Historic Site culminating in a “Day of Dance.”
2023 saw continued growth in youth programs and school field trip attendance. TOP worked with the Hudson City School District to provide 11 scholarships for our Panorama Summer Youth Program. We continued offering field trips at no cost for Columbia and Greene County school districts, leading to a continued increase in demand. In 2023, we served over 1700 students through onsite field trips, a 112.5% increase from 2022. We also increased the number of schools visiting from Columbia and Greene counties by 73%.
PHOTO
Left to Right: Winter Solstice Event, Unfolding Olana with Site Spectific Dances, Sail and Sketch with Hudson Ferry Co., Panorama with the Sylvia Center, Artmaking in the Afternoon, a free drop-in series
LANDSCAPE, VIEWSHED, & CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT
The mingled flower garden is enjoyed by thousands of visitors each year and blooms consistently from April through November. The maintenance of this garden continues to be generously funded by TOP supporters, Serra and Glenn Butash.
Two undeveloped land parcels (approx. 25 acres total) across Route 9G went on the market in late 2023. This land was also close to the Rip Van Winkle Bridge and the Hudson River Skywalk route. Even though it would be challenging to develop this property due to topography and wetland constraints, this sale was a concern. TOP evaluated options with our conservation partners at Scenic Hudson, and,
ultimately, a conversation-minded buyer purchased the parcels, so any immediate threat of development has passed.
TOP has been working to minimize the impact of communications towers on Blue Hill, to the immediate southeast of Olana. Following the erection of a new tripod tower, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) required the old towers to be removed. In late 2023, we learned from Scenic Hudson that the National Park Service Historic Landmark program had brought this to the FCC’s attention and been assured that they would be removed in Spring 2024.
Two major capital development projects were underway simultaneously in 2023. In January, the clearance of the site for the Frederic Church Center for Art & Landscape (FCC) began. Construction proceeded on schedule through the year, and by December the building was roofed and framed in. Meanwhile, the first phase of the farm complex restoration was completed in early autumn. The most visible element of this project was the removal of the temporary parking lot built on top of the historic Kitchen Garden location adjacent to the Wagon House and the construction of a new lot surrounded by native plantings with safer, code compliant pedestrian access to Olana’s farm buildings and Lake Road. The view from Crown Hill over Olana’s historic farm zone
no longer includes a parking lot and cars, and TOP and OPRHP can now turn attention to restoring the Kitchen Garden and Main Barn. Activating the farm complex has always been a core idea within the Olana Strategic Design Plan and the siting of the Frederic Church Center. This project also included major drainage improvements to prevent erosion and flooding of the Wagon House, which had become more frequent with more intense rains.
Left to Right: Visitors enjoying the View, Frederic Church Center for Art and Landscape construction, Farm parking construction
COLLECTIONS & EXHIBITIONS
This was a year of growth for TOP’s curatorial department, as we welcomed a new exhibitions manager, Blakely Kralovec and brought on Dr. Elizabeth Kornhauser, Curator Emerita of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as Senior Consulting Curator. Dr. Kornhauser will be activating museums and scholars nationwide to participate in Church 200, our 2026 initiative marking the bicentennial of Church’s birth. Blakely Kralovec, who brings more than 15 years of experience in collections and exhibitions management to her role, has implemented new organizational and budgeting processes and expanded our capacity to take on ambitious exhibitions.
From May-October Olana presented Terraforming: Olana’s Historic Photography Collection Unearthed, an indoor-outdoor exhibition curated by artist David Hartt. Featuring 50 original 19th-century photographic prints collected by Frederic Church, plus six large-scale reproductions of Church-owned photographs placed in the historic landscape and two new site-specific artworks by Hartt, Terraforming excavated Olana’s remarkable collection of historic photography to explore questions of human relationships with the land. The accompanying catalogue featured 136 historic images selected by Hartt, along with essays by Hartt and photography historian Corey Keller.
In November, we opened our second winter exhibition, Spectacle: Frederic Church and the Business of Art, which responded to two of our visitors’ most frequently asked questions: how were Church’s paintings experienced in the 19th century, and how did an artist make enough money to create Olana? Spectacle features a 2.5D digital exploration of Church’s 1859 masterpiece Heart of the Andes, originally produced by the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Alongside this immersion into Church’s “great picture,” artifacts from Olana’s archives that illuminate Church’s business practices were on view in the gallery.
TOP and Bureau of Historic Sites’ staff assisted numerous researchers through the year. Mary Roberts, a scholar of Orientalist art at the University
of Sydney (Australia), investigated Church’s architectural influences with research in his library at Olana. Victoria Johnson, who is writing a comprehensive biography of Frederic Church, received ongoing research support. Shannon Vittoria, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Assistant Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, did extensive research on Church’s years in Mexico for a future exhibition. The painting A Solitary Lake in New Hampshire by Thomas Cole left Olana to receive conservation treatment in anticipation of a loan to a traveling exhibition organized by the Thomas Cole National Historic Site focusing on indigeneity and landscape painting. These projects are among many ongoing that will continue to raise Olana’s profile and foster new scholarly perspectives on Church’s life and work, more than ever as we build towards 2026.
Left to Right: Terraforming with curator David Haart, SPECTACLE: Frederic Church and the Business of Art
DEVELOPMENT & COMMUNICATIONS
The Olana Partnership’s Development and Communications team builds and sustains relationships with a wide range of constituencies, from the general public to major donors, private foundations, government, and the press, in order to advance TOP’s mission. In addition to having primary responsibility for all marketing and public relations, TOP’s Development team’s responsibilities include: membership and volunteers, special events, restricted initiative and program fundraising, and TOP’s capital campaign for the Frederic Church Center for Art & Landscape. In 2023, TOPs membership program grew to 796 households and continued to cultivate affiliation and support. Popular member events included “Hard Hats and Mimosas” series, a behind the scenes tour for members that shares upcoming capital plans and projects, and “Prosecco on the Piazza” and “Pastries on the Piazza,” special opportunities to enjoy refreshment and conversation with senior staff and other members on the Piazza before and after public
tour hours. In addition, a new Curator Talk series was launched, giving members an opportunity to tour current exhibitions with TOP’s curatorial team. TOP’s 23rd Annual Frederic Church Awards were presented on April 19 and honored Kelly M. Williams, Sarah D. Coffin, and Lynn Davis. The event exceeded revenue goals by 156%. The Critical Initiative / in-room fundraising element of the event raised over $250,000 for The Church 200 Fund, which will support TOP’s national initiative of exhibitions and programs marking the bicentennial of Frederic Church’s birth in 2026.
The Olana Viewshed Tour returned in June as our primary regional fundraising event. 2023’s event was held in honor of Glenda Berman, one of TOP’s first historic landscape interpreters, who went on to lead our Visitor Engagement team during COVID. TOP greatly appreciates her extraordinary contributions to raise awareness and understanding of Olana’s as a holistic work of American landscape art.
2023 was the sixth year of TOP’s capital campaign to fund the design and construction of The Frederic Church Center for Art & Landscape, a new visitor entry and orientation facility that is the linchpin of Olana’s Strategic Landscape Design Plan. As of the end of 2023, TOP had raised $10.8 million. This includes matching $1M of an extraordinary $2 million matching challenge. The campaign and match continues in 2024. In October, We TOP trustees and staff and OPRHP colleagues were joined by Assemblymember Didi Barrett to raise a glass in celebration within the frame of the new structure.
On the marketing and communications front, the 2023 exhibitions Terraforming: Olana’s Historic Photography Collection Unearthed and SPECTACLE: Frederic Church and the Business of Art received coverage in WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Berkshire Eagle, American Art Review, Maine Antiques Digest, and several local publications, as did public programs such as Olana’s Movie Night and the Winter Solstice Celebration.
Left to Right: Frederic Church Awards honoring Lynn Davis, Kelly Williams, and Sarah Coffin, Donor toast at the Frederic Church Center, Prosecco on the Piazza for members, Tour of the Metropolitan American Wing with Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Olana Viewshed Tour, Olana Viewshed Tour donor event
2023 OPERATING REVENUE
*Note: In FY23 TOP received $206,901 in Covid relief funds. These have been designated as operating reserve funds.
OPERATING REVENUE: $2,544,207
2023 OPERATING EXPENSE
OPERATING EXPENSES: $2,444,498
2023 MEMBERS & DONORS
Combined Operating and Capital Contributions
$100,000 and up
Art Bridges Foundation
Steve and Renee Iacone Clearman
Jim and Janet Dicke
Henry and Susan Livingston
Lucy S. Rhame
The Thompson Family Foundation
Susan Winokur and Paul Leach
$50,000 - $99,999
Joseph Baker
Christopher E. Buck and Hara Schwartz
David Diamond and Karen Zukowski
The Henry Luce Foundation Inc.
Meredith J. Kane
Peter and Helen Warwick
Kelly Williams and Andrew Forsyth
$20,000 - $49,999
Jamie Carano and Philip Nordenström
Laurel Durst and Edward Strong
Phoebe Gubelmann
Hudson River Bank & Trust Foundation
Bindy and Stephen Kaye
Steven Kern
Robin and David Key
Beth and Ricky Mason
Nick and Lynn Nicholas
Robert Ouimette
Lucy Rockefeller
Waletzky and James Hamilton
Sedgwick Ward
$10,000 - $19,999
Nicholas and Jamie Botta
Glenn and Serra Butash
Margaret Davidson and John Stein
Foundation of America
Christopher J. and Kim Elliman
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Ricky Lark and Rickey Shaum
Nina Lesavoy
Macklowe Gallery
Rick McCarthy and Jean Hamilton
Pauline Metcalf
Eric and Constance Silverman
Jane Smith
Dianne Young
$5,000 - $9,999
Regina Aldisert
Susan Austin Warner, Ph.D.
Betsy Broun
Eric Brown and Nguyet
Chau
Sarah D. Coffin and Thomas O’Connor
Community Bank
Joan K. Davidson
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Mr. and Mrs. Meyer S. Frucher
Kristin Gamble
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Colin and Katrina Stair
Barbara Tober
Kay Toll and Maynard
Toll
John Wilmerding
$2,500 - $4,999
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$1,000 - $2,499
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Christian Anthony
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Kelly Bakshi
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Charles and Kathryn
Berry
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$500 - $999
Ellen Albert and David Grigg
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Bradley
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2023 DONORS CONTINUED
Sheila Bridges
Adrian Bryan-Brown and Joan Marcus
Bonnie Burnham
Philippe Cao and Alessandra Bautista
Patricia and Thomas Carano
Carrie Haddad Gallery
Alex Chapple
CNY Arts
Columbia County
Libraries Association
Columbia County
Tourism
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Wright
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Jane Daye
Georgia and Michael de Havenon
Lawrence Delson
Lois E. Dickson
Whitney and Peter Donhauser
A.C. Dorrance, III
Amy Dubin
Jacqueline and Stephen Dunn
Kianga Ellis
Maia Farish
Deanna Felicetta
Ralph Gardner and Debbie Gardner
Nickolas Garin and Liz
Dee
Di-Anne and Thomas Gibson
Irene Gibson
Lew Haber and Carmen
Dubroc
Bryanne and Thomas Hamill
Hosanna Houser
Courtney Iglehart
Alice Iglehart Schwarz
Tom Jayne
Daphne Jordan
Nicholas Kafi
Jon Katz and Amy Davidsen
David Kermani
Robin Kornstein
Roberta and Lawrence Krakoff
Stephen Kronovet and Dawn Shapiro
George and Shelly Lazarus
Lyle Lentz
Carolyn Libretti
Lockwood Mathews Mansion
Museum
Jeffrey and Pamela Lovinger
Susan and Glenn Lowry
David Marden
John Neumayr
Florence and Victor M.
Meyers
Chas A. Miller, III and Birch Coffey
Mountain Top Library
Linda Moye
Onteora Runners Club
Questroyal Fine Art
Jenny and Jim Quirk
Mervin Richard
Debra and Chip Roberts
Jason Rosenfeld
John Schobel and Daniel Schmeder
Florie Seery and Marc BryanBrown
Elizabeth Silver-Schack
Stephanie Smart
Priscilla and Matthew Snyder
John Stein
Rosemary and Robert Steinbaum
Sutter Antiques
Vincent Teahan and Johanna Triegel
Judith Thurman
Jane Trombley
Dorsey Waxter and Richard
Armstrong
Vera and Myles Weintraub
Kimberly Yao
OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE
NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF PARKS, RECREATION, AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION STAFF (as of December 31, 2023)
Amy Hausmann, Director
Tim Dodge, Park Manager, Olana/Clermont
Ray Bender, Landscape, Olana/Clermont
Daniel Bigler, Olana State Historic Site Assistant
Anthony Cidras, Security
Kevin Gavigan, Security
Bryan Gerard, Landscape, Olana/Clermont
Donna Grein, Administrative Assistant
Jon Harrington, Trades Generalist
Maddie Hermance, Collections
Robert Hills, Restoration & Landscape, Olana/Clermont
Jules Lamanec, Landscape, Olana/Clermont
Frank Munz, Landscape, Olana/Clermont
David Poole, Security
Pat Philipbar, Landscape, Olana/Clermont
Gordon Riggs, Security
Patrick Tompkins, Landscape, Olana/Clermont
Matt Turner, Landscape, Olana/Clermont
Karl Weidel, Security
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