Frederic Church’s Olana Architecture and Landscape as Art by James Anthony Ryan introduction by Franklin Kelly paperback, 8 ½ x 11, 104 pages, 74 photographs (31 full-color), isbn 9781883789282, $21.95.   “Almost an hour this side of Albany is the Center of the World—I own it.”----Frederic Edwin Church in a letter to Erastus Palmer, 7 July 1869. (The collection of the Albany Institute of History & Art) Olana, the Persian-style house and romantically-designed grounds built high on a hilltop just south of the city of Hudson by Hudson River School painter...

Charles S. Keefe (1876–1946): Colonial Revival Architect in Kingston and New York by William Bertolet Rhoads foreword by Richard Guy Wilson 8ʹ x 10ʹ, 266 pages, 133 illustrations (color and B&W) Trade paper: isbn 9781883789893, $25.95 “The Colonial Revival is at the heart of American architecture.” —— Richard Guy Wilson (Commonwealth Professor at the University of Virginia and author of The American Renaissance , The Machine Age in America , Thomas Jefferson’s Academical Village , Edith Wharton at Home , and The Colonial Revival House ) A native and...