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Olana floor plan, 1st floor (Library of Congress, Washington DC).
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Fig. #, Olana floor plan 1st floor.

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Fig. 1, Sitting room, Olana main house, 2020. 180-degree photograph. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson, NY. Photograph by Krista Caballero. Church’s The After Glow (1867) currently hangs on the east wall of the sitting room, and the 180-degree photograph is used to evoke Grace King’s experience. Given King’s description, either The After Glow, which we know was in the house by 1886, or another Church sunset such as Sunset, Jamaica (1865), would have been on the wall in 1887.

 

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Fig. 25, View south from Court Hall, 2020. Animated time-lapse photography. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. Photography by Krista Caballero; animation by Allan McLeod.
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Fig. 26, View of stair hall, 2020. Animated time-lapse photography. Olana State Historic Site, Hudson. Photography and animation by Krista Caballero.
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