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View From Olana
Greenport
lost
threat: inappropriate industrial development, loss of visual
and architectural integrity (Athens Generating Station)
The Pacific Gas and Electric Company has
proposed to construct a gas fired power plant in the Village of
Athens, a small community located on the west side of the Hudson
River in Greene County. The Athens Generating Plant, if built,
would have a significant impact on the surrounding water, land,
and numerous historic structures in its proximity. One of the most
devastating impacts would be on State Historic Site Olana, located
across the Hudson River from Athens. Olana is the 1870-1889 Moorish
Italianate villa of Hudson River School painter, Frederic E. Church.
Many of Church’s famous landscape paintings were inspired by the
quintessential views from his 250-acre estate-views that would
be marred by the unavoidable impact from Athens Generating.
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