Photos: Historic Churches
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| Canterbury Presbyterian Church |
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| Cornwall Presbyterian Church |
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| Friends Meeting House |
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| Methodist Church |
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| St. John's Episcopal Church holds an auction Saturday evening. |
Cornwall-on-Hudson photographer Phil Hopp, who specializes in landscape photography, recently submitted a series of photos he took of historic churches in Cornwall and Cornwall-on-Hudson. The churches, arranged by the year they were built, show the rich religious heritage of the area.
Town historian Janet Dempsey notes in “Cornwall, New York, Images from the Past 1788-1920,” that by the mid-1800s ten churches were thriving in Cornwall. “It is a marvel, too, how ten churches were able to exist, even prosper, in 19th-centyrt Cornwall. And most were thriving organizations, with Sunday schools of two hundred staffed by twenty-five teachers.”
The first church the Friends Meeting House on Quaker Avenue, built in 1790 by a group of Quakers that includes the Sands family.
The Canterbury Presbyterian Church, on Clinton Street, was erected in 1827 and was in active use until 2003, when a dwindling congregation forced the church to close its doors.
The Methodist Church, on Main Street in Cornwall, was built in 1830 on a hill now overlooking the town hall and park.
The Cornwall Presbyterian Church was built in 1856 by a group of people who broke away from the Canterbury church and started a new congregation in the village.
St. John’s Episcopal Church, on Clinton Street in Cornwall, opened in 1859. The brick building features an elaborate stain glass window.
If readers have photos of the original Baptist church, the original Catholic church or other relevant photos that you would like to submit to this website, please notify [email protected].
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