Olana, south façade. —Stan Ries photo
By Andrea Valluzzo
Court Hall of the main house at Olana. —Andy Wainwright photo, 2004
HUDSON, N.Y. — Rising high above the Hudson River just south of the town of Hudson is a most incongruous sight. A Moorish mansion, seemingly plucked from a Middle Eastern city and dropped into rural Hudson Valley — an area better known for its colonial Dutch and English architecture — where for more than a century it has s… (View original article)