Throughout the Hotel Fauchère, there are a number of Hudson River School paintings on display. The Hudson River School is a term used to describe a wave of American landscape painting that started early in the 19th century. As the young American nation began to look westward for expansion, the New World paradise was starting to be forever altered by development. The Hudson River School painters, inspired by the uncultivated regions of the Hudson River Valley and the Catskill Mountains in New York State, documented the unspoiled perfection of the wilderness as well as the encroachment of progress, often represented by depicting stumps or forests, a style recording panoramic views in a romantic semi-realistic style, with an underlying mood of serenity and contemplation.

Many of the best-know Hudson River School painters spent time in and around Milford, including Worthington Whittredge, Sanford Robinson Gifford (who was Gifford Pinchot's godfather) and others. James Pinchot, Gifford Pinchot's father, was a great patron of the arts. Sanford Robinson Gifford's most famous work, Hunter Mountain Twilight, (1866), was once owned by the Pinchot family. It depicts the famous mountain at sunsset, but also partially denuded of its trees, a barren expanse of stumps, making a double entendre of its title.