Colonnade Row

Historical marker location:

428 Lafayette Street, New York, New York

( Marker is on Lafayette Street, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1963

Landmarks of New York.

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.