\n I felt like I was wandering through an art museum as I explored the resort’s seemingly endless galleries.\n <\/p>\n
It was pouring when I woke up for my first full day at Mohonk Mountain House. Luckily, there were more than 2,000 pieces of art inside.<\/p>\n
“On rainy days, one thing you can do is walk up and down the hallways to look at all the artwork,” Boucher said. “Each building section on each floor is a different little discrete gallery.”<\/p>\n
Exploring these winding halls of art ended up being one of my favorite parts of my stay, and if it hadn’t rained, I likely wouldn’t have paid any attention to them.<\/p>\n
Collections included oil paintings by prominent 19th-century Hudson River School artists, photos and paintings of horses, and 20th-century prints of the hotel’s brochures, to name a few. Some gallery themes were broad, like American landscapes. Others were more specific, like photographs of distressed vehicles.<\/p>\n
“In the early days at Mohonk Mountain House, artists would trade paintings for stays,” Boucher said, adding that guests also donated photos and artworks from their travels.<\/p>\n
One of the historic galleries featured reproductions of famous European paintings.<\/p>\n
“Back then, our guests mostly did not go to Europe because you had to take a long steamship,” Boucher said. “This was their European art experience.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I felt like I was wandering through an art museum as I explored the resort’s seemingly endless galleries.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3346,14589,1533,35047,141254,5886,15104,141255,89252,141253,9,24,23450,55,54,1641,56,141251,85809,141252],"class_list":["post-388922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-air-travel","tag-booking","tag-business-insider","tag-chaos","tag-double-occupancy","tag-europe","tag-meal","tag-medium-rate","tag-mohonk-mountain-house","tag-most-activity","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-apartment","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-night","tag-ny","tag-ny-all-inclusive-resort","tag-room","tag-staycation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}