To work in such beauty is certainly a distraction, but Frederick Church made the best of the Hudson Valley and became America’s highest paid artist. Read about his home than visit it. You will be awed beyond belief.
Thousands of students arrive on campuses each year to study at one of the 30+ private institutions of higher learning in New York City. King’s College was chartered in 1754 at Trinity Church, Manhattan. The name was changed to Columbia University after the American Revolution, and it is still hard at work making Americans smarter.