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For a short time in the 1850S, the center of the New York art world was located in North Conway, New Hampshire. Yes, before there was SoHo, there was NoCo.
The rage for all things Conway can be traced to 1839. In that year, Thomas Cole, dean of the Hudson River School, traveled to the region to create what is most likely our first painting of Mount Washington: A View of the Mountain Pass Called the Notch of the White Mountains. But it was not until 1853, when a painter named Benjamin Champney, a New Hampshire native, bought a home in North Conway that interest in the area took off. Many landscape artists at the time lived in the same complex of studio apartments ...