The Olana State Historic Site, home of Frederic Edwin Church. This year is the 200th anniversary of the American landscape painter's birth. (Will Waldron/Times Union) One of the best front porches in America sits atop a glacial drumlin in Columbia County overlooking the Hudson River. It commands a stunning view of the Hudson Valley that's worthy of a Frederic Church painting. In fact, that view is a Frederic Church painting, because the porch fronts Olana, the home he built to turn nature into art.