Church also made vibrant sketches of the Olana landscape; he framed a few and hung them in the main residence. The family's bucolic life at Olana was forever changed in March, 1865, with the deaths of the children from diphtheria.

We have been working closely with Ho‘ōla Nā Pua to bring awareness and create a coordinated effort to find solutions to this very serious issue. Park Use Guidelines | Directions and Parking | Park Maps Olana State Historic Site is a member of Historic Artists’ Homes and Studios, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. With over 6 million of the world’s best eBooks to choose from, Kobo offers you a whole world of reading. The stone, brick, and polychrome-stenciled villa is a mixture of Victorian, Persian [3] and Moorish styles.Describing his house to a newspaper reporter, Church characterized it as "Persian, adapted to the Occident". To the southwest and south the terrain descends to Quarry Hill directing the eye three miles away toward Inbocht Bay. This is a day for our community to come together to learn more about the fight against child sex-trafficking and exploitation. Ho’ōla Nā Pua (New Life for Our Children) was founded to shine light on the dark criminal enterprise of sex trafficking, placing the health of Hawaii’s youth at the center of our mission and vision for our community.

We acknowledge the generous friends who support our many efforts to increase representation and inclusion in all aspects of theatre: Elizabeth Armstrong, Bank of America, Eugene and Joann Bissell and the Lillian Lincoln Foundation, Kevin Brown, Barbara and Peter Bye, Ginger McKnight Chavers, Ford Foundation, Jill and Barry Lafer, Gina Maria Leonetti, Iva Mills, Beryl Snyder, and Denise Littlefield Sobel. With every donation, you not only provide sanctuary for victims like Lani but also empower our community through vital training programs. Huntington supposed that the name "Olana" was a corruption of an ancient language [33]—an article to that effect had been published in the 1890s in the Boston Herald and believed for many decades. Poet John Ashbery described the results: "The ensemble is breathtaking, and despite the proliferation of architectural elements and polychrome tile decoration, it is not busy but solemn and wildly fanciful, like Church's painting.The first element he added to the property was a small country cottage, believed to have been designed by Richard Morris Hunt. If the system detects something that potentially contradicts our community guidelines, the review is not published. They come in a range of colours, from blonde through shades of green, speckled, and reds to purples. Carr found no confirmation that the Churches ever considered this meaning; instead, Carr believed the answer to be in a copy of Strabo's Geographica in Olana's library, a multi-volume reference work given by Isabel Church to her husband on Christmas 1879.