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Olana State Historic Site, main building. The inner courtyard of an ornate stone mansion showing Persian influences mixed with European and American.

... that New York's Olana State Historic Site (pictured) was named "Olana" by artist Frederic Edwin Church after he read about Olana, an ancient treasury in Artaxata, Armenia, overlooking the Araxes River?
... that, in 1767, Union Street first connected Poughkeepsie, New York, to the Hudson River?
... that Sylvan Lake is the deepest in Dutchess County, New York?

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