National Register of Historic Places

Church of the Holy Innocents and Rectory

Highland Falls, Orange County, New York
Listed
November 23, 1982
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
82001213

About this property

The Church of the Holy Innocents is located on Main Street in Highland Falls, New York, United States, not far from the main gate of the United States Military Academy and right across from the West Point Museum. It is an Episcopal church, established in 1841. The building, designed by Robert Walter Weir, a Hudson River School painter then employed as an instructor at the academy, was completed five years later and consecrated in 1847. The name "Holy Innocents" came from Weir's children, who died young. It became the popular place of worship for affluent city residents who summered along the Hudson River. Among them was J. Pierpont Morgan, who funded the construction of the rectory, a Tudor addition to the church. After his death, his family continued the tradition, endowing a Louis Comfort Tiffany stained-glass window depicting Creation. The church and its Tudorbethan rectory were listed as Church of the Holy Innocents and Rectory on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. It is a parish of the Episcopal Diocese of New York.

Location

112 Main St.
Highland Falls, Orange County, New York
41.37355, -73.96452

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When was Church of the Holy Innocents and Rectory listed on the National Register?

Church of the Holy Innocents and Rectory was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 23, 1982.

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Church of the Holy Innocents and Rectory is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

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