Abner Wight Home

Historical marker location:

234 South Main Street, Fairport, New York

( Marker is on South Main Street (New York State Route 250) 0.1 miles north of Hulbert Road, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1949

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.