The Olana Partnership - 2024 Annual Report

2024

ANNUAL REPORT

FROM THE PRESIDENT I’m very pleased to present The Olana Partnership’s Annual Report for 2024. With the many projects and programs that we undertook, there is no doubt that the year’s most significant accomplishment was the opening of the Frederic Church Center for Art & Landscape. Not only is this new visitor orientation facility the pivotal element of our vision for centering the visitor experience on Olana’s historic landscape, it is also the first new structure at Olana since Frederic Church’s lifetime.

As such, we felt it was critical to get it right, and the public (and private) response has been glowingly positive.

Our team reports that follow provide much detail about the successes and some challenges of 2024. In reading them, please keep in mind two things: first, that these necessarily brief texts only provide the highlights of the wide array of work underway at Olana and, second and very importantly, that The Olana Partnership’s staff is our greatest resource. I want to express my admiration and appreciation for their professionalism and commitment to Olana, our visitors, members, donors, and the communities we work within that they demonstrate every day.

I am particularly excited to share our success in engaging more visitors in our public tours and our educational programs. A key element of this in 2024 was the introduction of Third Thursdays / Tercer Jueves, a monthly day of free access and special programming made possible with a major grant from the Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program. A focus of this program has been outreach to Spanish-speaking communities across our region, an initiative that I think would please Frederic Church, who cherished his extensive and lifelong travels through the Americas.

2024 saw important progress on two major, future-focused projects: the planning of The Olana Partnership’s Frederic Church 200, an international celebration of the bicentennial of Church’s birth in 2026; and the launch of the first phase of creating a public, online catalogue of Olana’s collections.

This last is made possible with a major, multi-year grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, and we thank them for understanding of the national significance of Olana’s collections.

While we said farewell to several brilliant staff members in 2024, one deserves a particular note of appreciation. After 26 years, Ida Brier, The Olana Partnership’s Archivist-Librarian, retired. Beginning as a volunteer in Olana’s Mingled Garden, Ida aided countless researchers and curators and enlightened several generations of our staff on the rich resource of Olana’s archives. We wish her much happy reading and gardening in her retirement.

Sincerely yours,

Sean E. Sawyer, Ph.D. Washburn & Susan Oberwager President Cover: Peter Aaron/OTTO

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 25 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 opened in October 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.

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 within the Hudson River Valley National Heritage Area.

OLANA NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE - as of December 31, 2024 J. Winthrop Aldrich Leslie Greene Bowman Bonnie Burnham Sarah D. Coffin Will Cotton

Linda S. Ferber Stephen Hannock Eleanor Jones Harvey Inge Heckel Morrison H. Heckscher

Valerie Hegarty Franklin Kelly Elizabeth Kornhauser Katherine E. Manthorne George McDaniel

Laurie Norton Moffatt Laurie Olin, FASLA Elizabeth Barlow Rogers Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. Barbara Tober

BOARD OF TRUSTEES - as of December 31, 2024 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

Joe Baker Eric Blair-Joannou Sheila A. Bridges Elizabeth Broun Laurel Durst Paula Forman Elizabeth Graziolo

Phoebe Gubelmann Christine Jones Meredith J. Kane Belinda K. Kaye Jennifer C. Krieger Ricky Lark Elizabeth A. Mason

Richard N. McCarthy Jamie Carano Nordenström Emily Sachar Jane Smith, FAIA Michael P. Tavano 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 - as of December 31, 2024 Executive Team

Part 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

Stephen Blendell, Interpreter Erin Curry, Visitor Services Associate Paul Davis, Interpreter Elle Dietemann, Retail Associate Lisa DiPietro, Office Administration Clare Flemming, Research Archivist Karen Gerstel, Interpreter Nordica Holochuck, Interpreter John Hunka, Visitor Services Associate Mikel Inchausti, Interpreter Rebekah Leatherman, Retail Associate Axel Robbins Lindy, Visitor Services Associate Amanda Lion, Visitor Services Associate Betsy Mattice, Interpreter Donald Pedersen, Interpreter Diana Perretti, Interpreter Bailey Reed, Staff Accountant Jennifer Scheitinger, Retail Associate Shelly Shugars, Interpreter Celine Smith, Olana Shop Assistant Manager Barbara Stevens, Interpreter Donna Streitz, Interpreter Florence Umezaki, Interpreter

& Business Operations

Senior Staff Maggie Dimock, Associate Curator Melanie Hasbrook, Director of Advancement & Marketing Hiro Kitamura, Director of Finance & Human Resources Carolyn Keogh, Director of Education & Public Programs Hannah Scott, Director of Visitor Services & Engagement Rachel Tice, Director of Retail Operations Full Time Staff Lorraine Bulson, Bookkeeper Jennifer Dixon, Advancement Associate Blakely Kralovec, Exhibitions Manager Nicole Madden, Development Manager Gracie Mills, Education Manager Erin Orison, Visitor Services Engagement Coordinator Tom Picasso, Manager, Visitor Services & Engagement Reagan Schweppe, Advancement Associate

VISITOR OPERATIONS & ENGAGEMENT The Olana Partnership’s Visitor Services team is the frontline for engaging all of Olana’s visitors, whether coming to enjoy the landscape as a public park or purchasing tickets to one of our public tours. The Visitor Services team operates ticketing out of the Frederic Church Center, acts as greeters and way finders, and serves as interpretive guides for a wide range of year-round tour offerings, both in the landscape and in the historic house.

In 2024, The Olana Partnership’s Visitor Services team welcomed over 34,000 guests on public tours, a 4% increase over 2023. We engaged approximately 25% of Park visitors at Olana in a ticketed tour, up from 20% in 2023.

We continue to expand free and discounted tour access through Library Passes, SNAP/EBT, and Members and other discounts, resulting in $55,000 in adult public ticket savings. Notably, our Library Pass program continued to grow, and use on house tours was up 35% over the previous year, representing over $26,000 in visitor savings. The two-hour combination tour (which includes a one-hour landscape tour

and main floor house tour) continued to be a visitor favorite, supporting our commitment to whole-site interpretation and creating an upward trajectory of landscape engagement.

One of several significant milestones in 2024 was the launch of TOP’s free Third Thursday / Tercer Jueves initiative, funded by the Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program. Through this initiative, TOP is able to offer a full day of free public tours and innovative public programs once a month. A key component of the program is Spanish-language access, including dedicated Spanish-language tours every Third Thursday / Tercer Jueves.

The highlight of the year was the opening of the Frederic Church Center for Art & Landscape.

Governor Kathy Hochul opened the building to the public on October 25, and the visitor response has been overwhelmingly positive. First-time guests and long-time visitors alike are thrilled to experience the building and discuss its siting, concept, and sustainability story with staff. Guests are grateful to have Lake Road re-opened for the first time in two years, allowing access to the key view of the house across the lake, as well as access to the farm complex

WHAT VISITORS ARE SAYING My e-car guide was THE BEST!!! She knew her history and answered all questions her enthusiasm and love for her job and the site was wonderful!

June 2024 Visitor from Fredericksburg, TX Our visit was beyond delightful, made more so by the wonderful staff and guides.

Everyone was so enthusiastic, friendly, and warm. I cannot stress enough how all the staff made us feel so amazingly welcome.

June 2024 Visitor from Bronxville, NY OMG this experience was beyond my hopes and expectations. I can’t wait to get back. We are considering moving to NY to be a part of Olana’s future state. This historic treasure has a heart and a soul we must preserve forever.

July 2024 Visitor from Rocky Mount, VA

via Lake Road. Visitors are encouraged through wayfinding signage to make the new facility their first stop upon arrival, and ticketing operations are fully functional both there and the Olana Shop at the top of the hill. We look forward to our first full year in the building, during which time TOP will gather data and information about how visitors are engaging with the space overall.

The Olana Shop, operated by The Olana Partnership, offers a curated range of gifts and items connected to the site’s art, architecture, and local landscape. Custom merchandise, branded apparel, books, home goods, children’s items, and more are available to visitors at a variety of price points, and many items are locally made or connected to Hudson Valley artisans. The Olana Shop also offers hot and cold beverages, and a selection of food choices through Taste NY, highlighting the quality and diversity of food and beverages grown, produced, or processed in New York State.

EDUCATION & PUBLIC PROGRAMS The Olana Partnership’s Education and Public Programming staff develop and implement diverse programming for all audiences. Rooted in placebased education principals, core elements of our educational programs include: K-12 onsite, curriculum-based field trips; accessible family programs designed for intergenerational audiences; our Workforce Development Internship program with Columbia-Greene Community College; Panorama Art + Nature Summer Youth Program; virtual webinars with scholars and artists, and workshops for lifelong learners.

offering free tours and programs to all audiences.

Supported by a major, three-year grant from the Access for All program of the Art Bridges Foundation, this initiative provided more regular free programming for audiences through workshops, drop-in artmaking experiences, lectures, concerts, and performances.

In addition, TOP provided a robust selection of other interdisciplinary offerings, providing over 200 programs throughout the year. This includes an increase in onsite family programs and an uptick in K-12 field trips serving students in our regional communities and beyond.

In 2024, The Olana Partnership expanded the reach of our onsite programming by 28% and virtual programming by 54%. A key factor in the growth of onsite attendance was the launch of Third Thursdays/Tercer Jueves, a monthly community day

This increase in the number of regular onsite programs posed a challenge for Education’s two-person team in 2024, as the increased demand of more frequent programming took up the bulk of the staff’s capacity and programming time. As such, offsite program

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10,800 People engaged in virtual, onsite, and offsite programs

5,000

Virtual program viewers

200

Programs, field trips, webinars, and events

28%

Increase in onsite program attendance

attendance decreased by 13% from 2023. To meet this challenge and continue prioritizing outreach through offsite initiatives and partnerships, at the end of 2024 a third staff position was developed. This role is designed to support onsite program teaching and coordination while increasing the capacity for regular offsite programs and The Olana Partnership’s ability to serve a wide range of audiences both onsite and in the community.

LANDSCAPE, VIEWSHED, & CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT The Olana Partnership works in close partnership with the Office of Parks, Recreation, and Historic Preservation to restore and preserve Olana’s 250acre designed landscape and its integral viewshed.

This includes routine maintenance and capital development plans across the site. Since 2015, this work has been guided by Olana’s Strategic Landscape Design Plan, a comprehensive planning document whose development was led by Nelson Bryd Woltz Landscape Architects. The Olana Partnership plays a particularly critical role in protecting Olana’s viewshed, since as a private non-profit organization representing Olana as a National Historic Landmark, we are able to advocate in ways that are impossible for a state agency.

On October 25, 2024, Governor Kathy Hochul officially opened the Frederic Church Center for Art & Landscape. This carbon neutral, net zero allelectric building and its integral climate resilient landscape create a new public threshold for Frederic Church’s historic landscape and are the linchpin of Olana’s Strategic Landscape Design Plan. Initial reaction to the Frederic Church Center has been overwhelmingly positive, and the last quarter of 2024 saw The Olana Partnership’s staff begin to observe how visitors would interact with the new space.

The rehabilitation of the section of Lake Road extending from the Frederic Church Center to the

historic farm complex was included in the project.

This historic carriage road now provides a seamless connection for visitors across the southern portion of Olana and includes reopened views to the main house, as designed by Church.

2024 saw construction begin on NYS Parks’ new maintenance facility at the foot of Olana, across Route 9G. This, combined with the recent expansion of Parks staff (shared between Olana and Clermont State Historic Site), will help to ensure adequate support for Olana as a designed historic landscape and public park.

The Mingled Garden thrived in 2024, and The Olana Partnership continued to work with its long-term gardener on maintenance plans. We greatly appreciate the continued and generous support of Serra and Glenn Butash for funding the full maintenance and materials for this garden, a prominent feature in Olana’s landscape that is enjoyed by many visitors.

COLLECTIONS & EXHIBITIONS For four decades, The Olana Partnership has employed curatorial and archival staff to work alongside professional staff at the NYS Bureau of Historic Sites to conserve, research, and interpret Olana’s nationally significant collections. This team provides the content that underpins the work of our Visitor Services and Education & Public Programs staff, including organizing a program of special exhibitions and site-specific contemporary art commissions.

The Olana Partnership’s 2023-2024 winter exhibition, Spectacle: Frederic Church and the Business of Art, concluded on March 31, and our summer exhibition, Afterglow concluded in October 2024. The Afterglow catalogue featured essays by Dr. Rebecca Bedell and the exhibition’s curator, Allegra Davis. This exhibition centered on two rarely seen paintings from private collections, To the Memory of Cole (1848) and The Evening Star (1858). In November, we launched A Closer Look in the Sharp Family Gallery. This rotating installation of

artworks from Olana’s collections offered visitors an opportunity to engage in dialogues about Church, his art, and their own reactions to the work.

2024 was a critical year of advance planning for Frederic Church 200, the international celebration of the bicentennial of Church’s birth in 2026. Led

by Senior Consulting Curator and Curator Emerita at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Frederic Church 200 will encompass a series of exhibitions, installations, and special programming at over 50 institutions around the world.

At Olana, Frederic Church: Global Artist, a special exhibition co-curated by Elzabeth Mankin Kornhauser, Tim Barringer, and Jennifer Raab, will be the focus of the year. In September 2024, The Olana Partnership hosted a convening of 14 scholars from across the U.S. as well as Australia, Colombia, and the United Kingdom, who are contributing essays to the exhibition publication, Frederic Church: Global Artist, to be published by Yale University Press.

In late 2024, The Olana Partnership was awarded a $300,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation to fund a 30-month project to create a public online catalogue of works by Frederic Church in Olana’s collection. This initiative will represent a major cooperative undertaking between our curatorial staff and the Bureau of Historic Sites’ team and will provide access to Olana’s rich collections. The first element of this landmark project is anticipated to debut in 2026 as part of Frederic Church 200.

The curatorial team hosted in-depth visits for a number of scholars and museum colleagues in 2024, including: Cornell University Professor Dr. Cynthia Robinson and students; Casey Monroe, Ph.D., Senior Research Cataloguer at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Christian Ayne Crouch, Ph.D., Dean of Graduate Studies, Director, Center for Indigenous Studies at Bard College; Suzanne Kite, Director of the Wihanble S’a Center for Indigenous AI at Bard College; the Albany Institute of History and Art; the Hudson River Valley Institute at Marist College; the Florence Griswold Museum; and Historic Hudson Valley.

After 26 years as The Olana Partnership’s Librarian & Archivist, Ida Brier retired in June 2024. We have established the annual Ida Brier Archival Webinar in recognition of her remarkable contributions to Olana. In July 2024, Associate Curator Allegra Davis departed to begin graduate studies in art history at Boston University.

In June 2024, Maggie Dimock joined The Olana Partnership as Associate Curator, having most recently served as Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the Greenwich Historical Society.

That same month, Clare Fleming joined as Research Archivist, coming from the New York State Archives and Archives Partnership Trust.

TOP LEFT: Frederic Church, To the Memory of Cole, 1848, Private Collection.

CENTER: Ida Brier (right) with author Victoria Johnson.

RIGHT: Contributors to Frederic Church: Global Artist at September 2024 convening at Olana.

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 our mission to preserve and interpret Olana.

In addition to having primary responsibility for all marketing and public relations, our Development team’s responsibilities include: membership and volunteers, special events, restricted initiative and program fundraising, and the capital campaign for the Frederic Church Center for Art & Landscape.

SPECIAL EVENTS The Olana Partnership’s annual Frederic Church Awards was held at the Rainbow Room in New York City on April 30 and honored patron Janet S. Dicke, curator Barbara Haskell, and designer Sheila Bridges. The event exceeded revenue goals by 115%, raising a net of $696,208 to support the organization’s operations. The in-room paddle raise raised $314,225 for the Frederic Church 200 Fund to underwrite the development and implementation of

programs celebrating the bicentennial of Church’s birth in 2026.

The Olana (Last Day of) Summer Party was held on the East Lawn at Olana on September 21 and recognized Carrie and Nick Haddad, for their longterm commitment to the City of Hudson, regional landscape artists, and the broader Olana region. The event exceeded its revenue goal by 13%, raising a net of $162,155 to support the organization’s work.

MEMBERSHIP In 2024, social and educational events continued to be an important and growing element of The Olana Partnership’s membership program. These included the Mimosas and Hard Hats series, a behind-the -scenes tour that shares upcoming capital plans and projects, and Prosecco on the Piazza, an opportunity to enjoy prosecco and conversation with senior staff and other members on the Piazza at sunset, and the Curator Talk series, giving members a personal opportunity to learn more about the current exhibition with The Olana Partnership’s curatorial

team. Other membership events included the opening of the summer Afterglow: Frederic Church and the Landscape of Memory exhibition, Yoga in the Landscape, a special listening tour of the Olana benches around Afterglow, Member Shop & Sip, and special tours of the winter A Closer Look series.

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS 2024 was the first year of OLANA Third Thursdays/ Tercer Jueves, a monthly free community day sponsored by the Access for All program of the Art Bridges Foundation. TOP has included outreach to Spanish language visitors in its monthly marketing around Third Thursday/Tercer Jueves. The opening of the Frederic Church Center was highlighted in the New York Times and Architectural Record.

The year’s exhibitions Afterglow: Frederic Church and the Landscape of Memory and A Closer Look received coverage in The Magazine Antiques, Hyperallergic, and local publications, as did programs and events such as Olana’s Movie Night and the Winter Solstice Celebration.

LEFT: Members’ “Prosecco on the Piazza” event.

CENTER: Olana (End of) Summer Party.

TOP RIGHT: 2024 Frederic Church Award honorees: Sheila Bridges, Barbara Haskell, and Janet Dicke.

MIDDLE RIGHT: BOTTOM RIGHT: Olana (Last Day of) Summer Party honorees Nick and Carrie Haddad with Sean Sawyer and Mark Prezorski.

2024 OPERATING REVENUE

2024 MEMBERS & DONORS Combined Operating and Capital Contributions

$100,000 and up Anonymous Janet and James Dicke, II The Henry Luce Foundation Inc. David and Susan Rockefeller Richard T. Sharp The Thompson Family Foundation Peter and Helen Warwick

OPERATING REVENUE: $3,056,493

2024 OPERATING EXPENSE

OPERATING EXPENSES: $2,969,088

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$50,000 - $99,999 Christopher Buck and Hara Schwartz Meredith Kane Belinda and Stephen Kaye Jennifer Krieger and Eric Siegel Alice Walton $20,000 - $49,999 Joseph Baker Eric Blair-Joannou Jamie Carano and Philip Nordenström Steve Clearman and Renee Iacone Clearman Laurel Durst and Edward Strong The Educational Foundation of America Phoebe Gubelmann Barbara and Sven Huseby Robin and David Key Ricky Lark and Rickey Shaum Elizabeth and Richard Mason Nick Nicholas NYS Council on the Arts Robert Ouimette Lucy Rhame Thomas Russo Emily Sachar and Joel Gordin Soros Fund Charitable Foundation Lucy Waletzky and James Hamilton Sedgwick Ward Susan Warner Susan Winokur and Paul

Leach Wyeth Foundation for American Art Zukowski Diamond Foundation $10,000 - $19,999 David Abrams Regina Aldisert Betsy Broun Glenn and Serra Butash Andrea Currier Margaret Davidson and John Stein Paula and Philip Forman Olivia Fussell Kristin Gamble Gubelmann Family Foundation Hudson River Bank & Trust Foundation Robert Hurst Tim and Stephanie Ingrassia James LaForce and Stephen Henderson Nanci and Nick Lanni Rick McCarthy and Jean Hamilton Anne McNulty Richard and Elizabeth Miller Mary and Garrett Moran National Bank of Coxsackie Nancy and Fred Poses Russ Post Sam Rose Jane Smith Jonathan Snow Theodore Stebbins Laurie Tisch Kelly Williams and Andrew Forsyth Dianne Young $5,000 - $9,999 Terence Boylan and Illiana van Meeteren Bright Funds Carrie Haddad Gallery Sarah Chalfant

Sarah Coffin and Thomas O’Connor Robin and Julie Graham Agnes Gund Suk Han and Andrea Vittorelli Karen Howat Laura Howat Victoria Johnson and Markley Boyer Peter Kindler Kanna Kitamura William Lambert Doris Lindbergh Michael and Barbara Polemis Jacqueline Rose Joshua Schulteis and Jimmy Asci A. Stair Herb and Paula Stumberg Michael Tavano and Lloyd Marks Monica Taylor Lotty Felicitas Thorne Barbara Tober Kay and Maynard Toll Christabel and Paul Vartanian James and Alison Von Klemperer Nadia Zilkha $2,500 - $4,999 Adam Yarinsky and Amy Weisser Alan Hilliker and Vivien Liu Alison Lankenau Allan and Julie Shope Amy and Matthew Davidson Anthony Alofsin and Patricia Alofsin Blair Effron C.L. King & Associates Carole Feuerman Christine Jones and Bert Goldfinger Christine Oaklander Claire Donohue David Theobald and Giovanna Bernardini Denise Simon and Paulo

Vieira da Cunha Diane Archer Durst Organization Edward Hoe Edwina Thorn Elizabeth Graziolo Elizabeth Roberts Eric and Constance Silverman Erin Hawker and Jonathan Furay Gary Holder and Todd Whitley Gwen Barnes Hal Aronow-Theil and Pat Henry Hudson Valley Credit Union Jack and Mary Ellen Higbee Jennifer Lynn Jennifer Ryan John and Hélène Heath John Frishkopf and Brett Mattingly Kayla Carlsen Lester and Jan W. Greenberg Mary Wilson Max and Pam Berry Michael Altman Fine Art & Advisory Services LLC Michael and Carlee Drummer Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins Norman and Melanie Mintz Norman Olson Paul Cassidy and Vernon Evenson Peter and Paula Lunder Richard Brodie Simon Salama-Caro Stuart Breslow and Anne Miller Susan and Joel Mindel Susan and Roger Kennedy Tania and Thomas Evans The Donohue Family Foundation

The J.M. Kaplan Fund Thomas Krizmanic Thomas Woltz, FASLA van Beuren Charitable Foundation Victor Kovner Washburn and Susan Oberwager $1,000 - $2,499 Kim and Gloria Anderson Judy Angelo The Bank of Greene County Phebe Banta Ann Beha and Robert Radloff Judy Bernhang Peter Bienstock Thomas and Lisa Blumenthal Luca Borghese and Michael Pierson Cara Boyle and Craig Mende Brown Harris Stevens and The Burden Team Ty Buckelew James Campion Ronald Carleton Mark Cheffo Eliza Childs and Will Melton Christie’s Randy Correll and Paul Occhipinti Rosalind Daly and Glenda Ruby Hope Dana Debra Force Fine Art, Inc. Stephen Donnarumma Pat Doudna Debra and Mr. Scott Edelman Eli Wilner and Company Linda Ferber and Joel Berson Jeanne Fisher Maria Friedrich Iona Fromboluti and Douglas Wirls Timur Galen Elizabeth Gilmore

James Gold Carlos Gonzalez and Katherine Stewart Len and Roni Greer Eva Griepp Sara and Tom Griffen James Guidera and Edward B. Parran Hawthorne Fine Art, LLC Michael Hofemann and Andrew Arrick Margaret Hofer Michael Humphreys Keith and Katherine Kanaga Peter Kellogg Martin Kenner and Camilla Smith Jane Klein Frederick Knecht Byron Knief and Rebecca Robertson Douglas Larson Nina Lesavoy Marika Lindholm and Ray Nimrod Richard Livingston Glenn Lowry Martha McMaster and Sheldon Evans Vincent and Brenda Miller Martha Moran and George Meyer Jonathan Nadler Alex and Kathryn Nyerges Monica Oswald James and Mary Ottaway Justin Patterson Linda Payne Peggy McGrath Rockefeller Foundation Peter R. & Cynthia K. Kellogg Foundation Thomas and Jean Phifer Steven Polan and Betsy Roistacher Jennifer and Andrew Prewitt Peter Reed and Alden Y. Warner

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2024 DONORS CONTINUED Eric Richter Al Roker and Deborah Roberts Harvey Ross Sean Sawyer and Michael Susi Elizabeth Scott Mary Jo Shen and Theodore Shen Lynda Shenkman Alton Sioussat Frances Spark and Michel Goldberg Silda Spitzer Silda Spitzer Stephanie Stebich Sarah Sterling Stewart’s Shops Corporation Lenard Tessler Margaret and Nathan C. Thorne Leslie Vosshall and Mr. Kevin Lee Alan Wanzenberg Abigail Westlake Ronald Wilcox and Susan Sullivan Windham Mountain Club Carol Yeager $500 - $999 Steve Adams Paul Barrett Benevity Community Impact Fund William Bissell Marilyn Bradley Marianne Brigham and Brendan Dougher Natalie Brown and Andrew Colyer Adrian Bryan-Brown and Joan Markus Bonnie Burnham CNY Arts Columbia County Libraries Association Columbia County

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Tourism Michael and Georgia de Havenon The Decorators Club Lawrence Delson Andrew Dolkart Elizabeth Ely Fingar Insurance (Hudson) Nickolas Garin and Liz Dee Patti Gillette Mitchell Golden Philip Gorrivan Gurnee and Marjorie Hart George and Chris Hearst Inge Heckel and Jeffrey Hamlin Harry Hill Hollis Taggart Galleries Hudson Wine Merchants Tracey Hummer Patricia Jasper-Zellner Lowell Johnston and Franny Olivieri Thomas Keesee Susan and Thomas Kelly Elizabeth and Stephen Kornhauser Joshua Laird and Gail Wittwer-Laird Peggy Lampman and Ian Nitschke Nataleigh Kohn Lehman and Tom Lehman Joseph Loonan Macklowe Gallery Christine Madden and Scott Koster Hermes Mallea and Carey Maloney Diane Max Alexandra McCagg Pauline Metcalf Melody and Kim Meyer New York Council for the Humanities

Nine Pin Cidery Marty O’Brien and Lisa Gordon Becca Piastrelli Erik Piecuch and Alex Wright Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation Joseph Rapp Kyle Reed and Carl Fischer Mark Rockefeller Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Leslie Rose and Stephen Kohn Scott Safier John Schobel and Daniel Schmeder Kenneth Schultz Michael Schweppe Melissa Scott Julia Seaver Kevin Seery David Sprouls and Kate Wood Chloe Squires Hollis Taggart Mona Talbott and Kate Arding Richard Trachtman Bobby Tudor Florence Umezaki W. P. Carey Foundation Chris Walther Paul Warren and Chris Chi Dorsey Waxter and Richard Armstrong Wheelock Whitney, III and Mr. Sandro Cagnin Williams Lumber and Home Centers $200 - $499 A.C. Dorrance Adams Fairacre Farms, Inc. Andrew Gates Anne Parke

Barbara Sheehan and Earl Zimmerman Carl Dress Catharine and Rhett Tyler Catherine Kayser and Peter Manka Catskill Public Library Charles Geiger Chas Miller, III Christine Boeke Christopher Boehning Claire Ackerman David Greifinger David Hansen David Marden Delmore Kinney Elisabeth Kent Elise Ottenberg and Herb Lachman Elizabeth Silver-Schack Ellen Jouret-Epstein and Martin A. Epstein Florie Seery and Marc Bryan-Brown Frances Grace Frederick Osborn Gary and Marla Gidlow Geoffrey Leckie George and Shelly Lazarus Gerald and Stephanie Smart James Quirk Jane Daye Jay David Lesenger and Hudson Talbott Jeff Rogart Jim Denney and Amy Ilias Jimmy Bulich Jonathan Davis and Laurie Kaiser Joseph Ahern and Leland Midgette Karen Rothmyer and Bernard Rivers Karla Worsdell Kim Friday Laurence Sorkin Lewis Haber Lillian Cohen Lois Dickson Matthew Brown Mervin Richard

Michael Bucek Morrison Heckscher Mountain Top Library Neil Bakalar Nishan and Tory Vartanian Palenville Branch Library Patrick Sullivan Paula Prewett and Stanley Mark Peggy Anderson Peter Bertine Peter Bray and Bridget A. Reel Peter Donhauser Peter Sweeny Pro Printers Questroyal Fine Art Rachel Hyman-Rouse Richard Weininger and Gretchen Stearns Scott Shafranek and Caveni Wong Sheila Bridges Sheila Murnaghan Stephen Kronovet and Dawn Shapiro Susan Mathisen Suzanne Slesin and Michael Steinberg Thomas Gibson Thomas Hamill Victor and Florence Meyers Waterford Public Library

OLANA STATE HISTORIC SITE NEW YORK STATE OFFICE OF PARKS, RECREATION, AND HISTORIC PRESERVATION STAFF (as of December 31, 2024) Linda Cooper Interim Director Tim Dodge, Park Manager Olana/Clermont Ray Bender, Landscape, Grounds Olana/Clermont Daniel Bigler, Olana State Historic Site Assistant Paul Carcaramo, Trades Generalist Olana Clermont Anthony Cidras, Security Brian Cleveland, Landscape, Grounds, Olana/Clermont Jake Dominique, Landscape, Grounds Olana/Clermont Kevin Gavigan, Security Donna Grein, Administrative Assistant Olana/Clermont Jon Harrington, Trades Generalist Olana/Clermont Paul Harwood, Horticulturalist Olana/Clermont Maddie Hermance, Collections Care Robert Hills, Landscape, Grounds Olana/Clermont Jules Lamanec, Landscape, Grounds Olana/Clermont Joshua Lawton, Landscape, Grounds Olana/Clermont Bryan Miller, Landscape, Grounds Olana Clermont Frank Munz, Landscape, Grounds Olana/Clermont David Poole, Security Alex Pratt, Landscape, Grounds Olana Clermont Leslie Reed, Horticulturalist Clermont/Olana Gordon Riggs, Security Carter Sorensen, Landscape, Grounds Olana/Clermont Anthony Stronconi, Landscape, Grounds Olana/ Clermont Patrick Tompkins, Landscape, Grounds Olana /Clermont Cassandra Weaver, Collections Care Karl Weidel, Security

The Olana Partnership is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit cooperative partner of the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation at Olana State Historic Site

2024 LIBRARY PARTNERS New Lebanon Library Newburgh Free Library North Chatham Free Library North Greenbush Public Library Olive Free Library (West Shokan) Palenville Branch Library Patterson Library Philmont Public Library Phoenicia Library Plattekill Public Library Poestenkill Library Poughkeepsie Public Library RCS Community Library (Ravena) Red Hook Public Library Richmond Free Public Library Roeliff Jansen Community Library (Hillsdale) Rosendale Library Sarah Hull Hallock Free Library (Milton) Saratoga Springs Public Library Saugerties Public Library Stanford Free Library Starr Library (Rhinebeck) Stone Ridge Public Library Tivoli Free Library Town of Esopus Library (Port Ewan) Town of Ulster Public Library Troy Public Library Ulster County Library Association Valatie Free Library Voorheesville Public Library Wallkill Public Library Waterford Public Library West Hurley Public Library Woodstock Library

Albany Public Library Albert Wisner Public Library (Warwick) Amenia Free Library Bethlehem Public Library Blodgett Memorial Library (Fishkill) Cairo Public Library Catskill Public Library Chatham Public Library and Canaan Branch Claverack Free Library Clinton Community Library Colonie Library Columbia County Libraries Association Cragsmoor Free Library D.R. Evarts Library (Athens) East Greenbush Community Library Egremont Free Library Ellenville Public Library & Museum Elting Memorial Library (New Paltz) Gardiner Library Germantown Library Guilderland Public Library Heermance Memorial Library (Coxsackie) Highland Public Library Hudson Area Library Hurley Library Kent Public Library Kinderhook Memorial Library Kingston Library LaGrange Association Library Livingston Free Library Marlboro Free Library Millbrook Library Morton Memorial Library (Pine Hill) Mountain Top Library (Tannersville) Nassau Free Library

2024 FOUNDATION PARTNERS W. P. Carey Foundation Price Chopper's Golub Foundation Peggy McGrath Rockefeller Foundation The J.M. Kaplan Fund The Donohue Family Foundation Hudson River Bank & Trust Foundation The Henry Luce Foundation Inc. John Ben Snow Foundation

The Educational Foundation of America The Wyeth Foundation for America Art The Art Bridges Foundation The Thompson Family Foundation The Henry Luce Foundation Inc. The Joan W. Rhame Foundation

As of December 31, 2023

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