Executive Mansion

Historical marker location:

138 Eagle Street, Albany, New York

( Marker is at the intersection of Eagle Street and Elm Street, on the right when traveling south on Eagle Street.)

Marker installed: 1940

The Hudson River School of painting, which was a 19th-century art movement that focused on landscapes and the natural world, was founded in New York State. Some of its most famous artists, such as Thomas Cole and Frederic Edwin Church, lived and worked in the Hudson River Valley.