Approach to the Mountain House

Story Of An American Cultural Icon Site 2: View From North Mountain Site 3: Mountain House Site 4: Description of Mountain Site 5: Kaaterskill Falls Site 6: Kaaterskill Clove, West Site 7: Kaaterskill Clove, East Site 8: In Kaaterskill Clove Site 9: Palenville Overlook

Approach to the Mountain House

A view of the Mountain House that many painters admired was from a big bend in the old stage road that came up the escarpment near North Mountain. First built in the Federalist style, the Mountain House later adopted a more Neo-Classical look, with thirteen huge Corinthian columns in front giving it the look of a Greek temple.

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Sara Cole (1805-1857), A View of the Catskill Mountain House, oil on canvas, 1841, 15 x 23 1/4 inches, Albany Institute of History and Art.

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