Niagara Falls has been called the American Mecca—a natural wonder and famed destination for honeymooners and daredevils alike. The colossal cataract at the border of New York and Ontario was the ...

The papers of painter F. Edwin Church (1876-1975) measure 0.7 linear feet and date from circa 1882-2012. The papers include correspondence relating primarily to loans and sales of Church's Japanese ...

One witness to an 1859 Northern Lights display was the artist Frederic Edwin Church, who later painted Aurora Borealis (above, detail). SAAM, 1911.4.1 In 1859, a record-breaking aurora borealis ...

His prominence lasted little more than a decade, but while it did Frederic Edwin Church caught the imagination of the American public as no other U.S. painter had before. In the 1850s, his eloquent ...

HUDSON, N.Y. — When Frederic Edwin Church unveiled “The Heart of the Andes” in the spring of 1859, it was not the painting art critics took issue with, but its frame. Church chose to forgo the ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. From across the Hudson River, you can see the turrets of Olana jutting from the woods at the apex of a hill.

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