Historical Marker

Methodist Church

Historical marker location:
250 Broadway, Monticello, New York
( Marker is on Broadway (New York State Route 42) east of Landfield Avenue, on the right when traveling east.)
Marker installed: 1940

Monticello, N Y.

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.