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'''St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo''' is an historic [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal]] parish church located in the Village of [[Tuxedo Park, New York]].
{{Infobox church
| name = St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo
| image = [[File:St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo.jpg|250px]]
| country = United States
| location = 10 Fox Hill Road, Tuxedo Park, NY 10987
| denomination = [[Episcopal Church in the United States of America|Episcopal]]
| website = https://www.stmtux.org/
| founded date = 1887
| consecrated date = 1888
| status = [[Parish Church]]
| architect = [[William Appleton Potter]]
| architectural type = Shingle Style
| diocese = New York
| province = Province II
| rector = Richard James Robÿn
| organist = Sheldon Eldridge
}}

== History ==
The brother-in-law of Tuxedo Park founder [[Pierre Lorillard IV]], Henry I. Barbey, offered to build and furnish a new village church in 1887, as the community had outgrown the public schoolhouse and later the temporary chapel that had been used for services up to that point.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Tuxedo Park: The Historic Houses|publisher=Tuxedo Park Historical Society|year=2007|isbn=0978945204|editor-last=Sonne|editor-first=Christian R.|location=Tuxedo Park, NY|pages=42-44|editor-last2=Hempel|editor-first2=Chiu yin|editor-last3=Bleecker|editor-first3=James}}</ref> Following construction, St. Mary's was consecrated by architect [[William Appleton Potter|William A. Potter's]] brother, Bishop of the [[Episcopal Diocese of New York]] [[Henry C. Potter|Henry Codman Potter]],<ref>{{Cite book|last=Crofut|first=Doris|title=St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo, 1888-1975|publisher=Library Research Associates for St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo|year=1975|location=Tuxedo Park, NY|pages=5}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=October 20, 1888|title=Notes from Suffern|volume=XXXVIII|work=Rockland County Journal|url=https://news.hrvh.org/veridian/?a=d&d=rocklandctyjournal18881020.2.15&srpos=7&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-%22St.+Mary%27s%22+%22Tuxedo+Park%22------|access-date=June 2, 2021}}</ref> on October 14, 1888.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Rushmore|first=George M.|title=The World With a Fence Around It: Tuxedo Park, The Early Days|publisher=Pagent Press, Inc.|year=1957|location=New York, NY|pages=43}}</ref> The church was significantly expanded starting in 1897, with a series of additions that widened and lengthened the [[nave]] over the following seven years.<ref>{{Cite book|title=St. Mary’s-in-Tuxedo Condition Survey & Stewardship Plan Report of Investigation|publisher=WSA{{!}}ModernRuins|year=2020|pages=19}}</ref>

The St. Mary's Guild was incorporated in 1899, tasked with supervising a number of church organizations.<ref>Crofut 1975, p. 15.</ref> A significant gift of $10,000 was provided by financier [[Robert Fulton Cutting]] in 1919, ensuring the Guild's financial stability during the Great Depression.<ref>Crofut 1975, p. 25.</ref>

Several notable figures are known to have attended services at St. Mary's. At a baptismal ceremony on June 9, 1896, a young [[Franklin D. Roosevelt|Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] served as a godfather for his cousin and Tuxedo Park resident Sara Roosevelt Collier.<ref>Crofut 1975, p. 12.</ref>{{Additional citation needed|date=June 2021}} [[J. P. Morgan]] attended a wedding service for his niece at St. Mary's in June, 1908.<ref>{{Cite news|date=June 24, 1908|title=MISS MORGAN WEDS REV. WM. FITZ-SIMON: The Bride is Given in Marriage by Her Uncle, J. Pierpont Morgan|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=}}</ref> The then-[[Superintendent of the United States Military Academy]] [[Douglas MacArthur]] was a speaker at two Memorial Day services held on the church lawn in the early 1920s.<ref name=":3">Lemanski, Bill (February 22, 2012). "St. Mary's in Tuxedo shines as a gem". ''The Photo News''. Retrieved May 31, 2021.</ref><ref>Crofut 1975, p. 27.</ref>{{Additional citation needed|date=June 2021}} The then-Bishop of Rhode Island [[James De Wolf Perry|James DeWolf Perry]] presided over the wedding of Louise King and Kenneth Shaw Safe at St. Mary's on April 24, 1926; guests included [[Henry Francis du Pont]] and [[Frederic Augustus Juilliard]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=April 25, 1926|title=LOUISE KING WEDS KENIETH A. S. SAFE: Bishop Perry of Rhode Island Performs Ceremony in St. Mary's Church, Tuxedo. 2,000 ASKED TO RECEPTION Father Escorts the Bride -- Alice M. Post Maid of Honor -- Great Array of Society.|work=The New York Times}}</ref> Notable attendees present at the funeral for New York State Special Sessions Judge Frederic Kernochan in January 1937 included [[Fiorello La Guardia]], [[Thomas E. Dewey]] and President Franklin D. Roosevelt's son, [[James Roosevelt]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=January 13, 1937|title=LEADERS ATTEND KERNOCHAN RITES: Judicial Associates Attend Simple Service in St. Mary's Church, Tuxedo Park. CITY OFFICIALS IN THRONG Mayor La Guardia Among 500 at Funeral--President's Son Represents Washington. Boys Scouts Guard of Honor James Roosevelt Present|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> The Duke of Windsor and former King [[Edward VIII]] of England and his wife, Duchess of Windsor [[Wallace Simpson]], attended a baptismal event at St. Mary's in 1969 for one of the Duchess's godchildren.<ref name=":3" />{{Additional citation needed|date=June 2021}}

=== List of Rectors ===

{| class="wikitable"
!Years
!Rector
|-
|1888 - 1891
|The Rev. Vaughn Colston
|-
|1892 - 1894
|The Rev. W. McCarthy Windsor
|-
|1894 - 1903
|The Rev. George G. Merrill
|-
|1903 - 1911
|The Rev. William Fitz-Simon
|-
|1911 - 1912
|The Rev. Malbone Burkhead
|-
|1912 - 1937
|The Rev. Robert S. W. Wood
|-
|1937 - 1952
|The Rev. Leon E. Cartmell
|-
|1953 - 1969
|The Rev. Fenimore E. Cooper
|-
|1969 - 1979
|The Rev. James R. Leo
|-
|1980 - 2006
|The Rev. Dr. Edwin H. Cromey
|-
|2007 - 2015
|The Rev. Elizabeth S. McWhorter
|-
|2017 -
|The Rev. Richard J. Robÿn
|}
<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Rectors of St. Mary's|url=https://www.stmtux.org/rectors|url-status=live|access-date=June 1, 2021}}</ref>

== Art and Architecture ==
[[File:St. Mary's Nave during Christmas.jpg|thumb|A view of the nave during the annual Christmas Eve service]]Desiring to complement the work of Village architect [[Bruce Price]], architect [[William Appleton Potter|William A. Potter]]—known for his numerous contributions to [[Princeton University|Princeton University's]] campus—produced a [[Shingle style architecture|Shingle style]] design for St. Mary's in 1887.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Wodehouse|first=Lawrence|date=May 1, 1973|title=William Appleton Potter, Principal "Pasticheur" of Henry Hobson Richardson|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/988831|journal=Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians|volume=32|pages=190|via=JSTOR}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Schuyler|first=Montgomery|date=1909|title=The Work of William Appleton Potter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oUlTAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA195&ots=XsZ-RqFq-2&dq=tuxedo%20st.%20mary's%20church%20william%20a%20potter&pg=PA196#v=onepage&q=tuxedo%20st.%20mary's%20church%20william%20a%20potter&f=false|journal=Architectural Record|volume=26|pages=196|via=Google Books}}</ref> In 1922 Isabelle Weart Giles arranged to redesign the church's [[Sanctuary#Sanctuary_as_area_around_the_altar|sanctuary]] in honor of her late husband, [[Henry Morgan Tilford]], by the noted Gothic Revivalist architect [[Bertram Goodhue]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=A Tour of Our Campus|url=https://www.stmtux.org/campus|url-status=live|access-date=May 31, 2021}}</ref><ref>Crofut 1975, p. 25.</ref> Celebrated architectural sculptor [[Lee Lawrie]] contributed an alabaster and gold panel located behind the altar as part of this redesign.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Tachau|first=Hanna|date=August 1922|title=Lee Lawrie - Architectural Sculptor|url=https://archive.org/details/internationalstu75newy/page/394/mode/1up?view=theater|journal=International Studio|pages=394|via=archive.org}}</ref>

Several prominent architects contributed to the wider St. Mary's campus. The 1895 rectory was designed by [[Richard Howland Hunt]] in the same Shingle style of the nearby church. The parish house, currently named Bentley Hall, was designed by Beaux-Arts architect [[James Brown Lord]] and was built in 1901.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Tobin|first=Richard Leonard|title=Deconstructing James Brown Lord: A Monograph|publisher=Columbia University Historic Preservation Thesis|year=2012|pages=89}}</ref><ref name=":1" /> Bishop Potter assisted in the ceremony of laying the cornerstone in February, 1901.<ref>{{Cite news|date=February 3, 1901|title=Parish House Cornerstone Laid|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>

The Chapel of the Holy Spirit, constructed in the church's stone [[undercroft]] in 1941 and featuring elements taken from the Tuxedo Park homes of [[Richard Mortimer]] and [[Henry Morgan Tilford]], was designed by George de Ris of [[J&R Lamb Studios]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=George de Ris architectural drawings and papers, 1922-1983 bulk 1922-1931|url=http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/archival/collections/ldpd_3464556/|url-status=live|access-date=May 31, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=January 16, 1941|title=Bishop Manning to Dedicate New Chapel at Tuxedo Sunday|page=2|work=Ramapo Valley Independent|url=https://news.hrvh.org/veridian/?a=d&d=larcindependent19410116.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------|access-date=June 1, 2021}}</ref> Multiple stained glass fragments dating from the 16th century were incorporated into the chapel windows.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Caviness|first=Madeline H.|title=Stained glass before 1700 in American collections: Corpus vitrearum Checklist I|publisher=National Gallery of Art|year=1985|series=Studies in the History of Art|location=Washington, D.C.|pages=203}}</ref>
== Stained glass ==
[[File:St. Mary's Tuxedo Chapel Window.jpg|thumb|A window featuring 16th- to 17th-century Swiss [[Heraldry|heraldic]] glass fragments in the Chapel of the Holy Spirit]]St. Mary's is home to an array of [[stained glass]] produced by several prominent studios around the turn of the 20th century,<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=A Tour of Our Windows|url=https://www.stmtux.org/windows|url-status=live|access-date=May 31, 2021}}</ref> including those of [[Louis Comfort Tiffany]],<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/synopsisexhibit00tiff|title=A synopsis of the exhibit of the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company in the American Section of the Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building at the World's Fair, Jackson Park, Chicago, Ill., 1893, with an appendix on Memorial Windows|publisher=Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company|year=1893|location=New York, NY|pages=30}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=December 19, 1896|title=Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LWExAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA24-PA8&lpg=RA24-PA8&dq=%22St.+Mary%27s%22+%22tuxedo%22+%22Maitland+Armstrong%22&source=bl&ots=yuAq3jEEwK&sig=ACfU3U1rLMAd9Oz_3nDIdvPYilD0PVXxMA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjXso666fbwAhWISzABHU9cB-IQ6AEwD3oECBcQAw#v=onepage&q=%22St.%20Mary's%22%20%22tuxedo%22%20%22Maitland%20Armstrong%22&f=false|journal=The Churchman|volume=74|pages=viii|via=Google Books}}</ref> [[Charles Rollinson Lamb|Charles Lamb]], [[John La Farge]], [[Maitland Armstrong]] and Henry Wynd Young. Several windows have been restored in recent years.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Clients|url=https://femenellaassociates.com/index.php/clients|url-status=live|access-date=June 1, 2021|website=Femenella & Associates}}</ref><ref name=":2" />
=== List of windows ===
* Louis Comfort Tiffany<ref>Chicago Exposition booklet, Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company. 1893.</ref>
** "Edith Godfrey Memorial" (presumed)<ref name=":7">{{Cite web|title=St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo, Tuxedo Park, New York|url=http://www.cambridge2000.com/tiffany/html/site/3.128.1.html|url-status=live|access-date=June 2, 2021|website=Tiffany Census}}</ref>
** "Pilgrim Window" - Memorial to William Lawrence Breese<ref>''The Epoch.'' February 28, 1890. p. 60.</ref><ref name=":4">A List of Windows: And Extracts from Letters & Newspapers, Tiffany Glass & Decorating Company. 1897. p. 23.</ref><ref name=":5">A Partial List of Tiffany Windows, Tiffany Studios. 1910. p. 36.</ref><ref name=":6">Duncan, A., Aulicino, B., & Arnoldo Mondadori, eds. (1980). ''Tiffany windows''. p. 207.</ref>
** "George Preston Memorial" - Preston Memorial Window (Hoffman Memorial Window)<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" />
** "St. Elizabeth" - De Rham Memorial Window<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" />
** "Crown of Life, St. Gertrude" - Memorial to Emily Post Griswold (May 10, 1905)<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" />
** "Cross in a Field of Painted Flowers" - Coster Memorial Window<ref name=":5" /><ref name=":6" />
** "Angel Playing a Musical Instrument" - Dated 1890 (presumed)<ref name=":7" />
* [[File:Crown of Life Tiffany.jpg|thumb|"Crown of Life" - Memorial to Emily Post Griswold, by [[Tiffany glass|Tiffany Studios]]]]Maitland Armstrong
** "C. F. Crocker Memorial" - Installed in 1898 in memory of [[Charles Frederick Crocker]]<ref>{{Cite news|date=April 9, 1898|title=Memory of C.F. Crocker - A Stained Glass Window for St. Mary's Church, in Tuxedo|page=8|work=The Topeka State Journal|url=https://newscomwc.newspapers.com/image/323057370/?terms=%22St.%20Mary%27s%20Episcopal%22%20%22Tuxedo%20Park%22&pqsid=tjuDSn61rX2LH2_6Nf1Tgg%3A818000%3A1582752719&match=1|access-date=June 2, 2021}}</ref><ref>''The Churchman.'' June 11, 1898. p. 853.</ref>
* John La Farge
** "Belief in the Resurrection" - Dated 1890; commissioned by [[Pierre Lorillard IV|Pierre Lorillard]] in memory of his son, Nathaniel Griswold Lorillard (1864-1888)<ref>{{Cite book|last=Yarnall|first=James|title=John La Farge, A Biographical and Critical Study|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2012|pages=164}}</ref><ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite news|date=July 11, 1890|title=A WINDOW FOR CLEVELAND, OHIO.|page=4|work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref>[[File:Belief in the Resurrection La Farge.jpg|thumb|"Belief in the Resurrection" - Apse Window by [[John La Farge]], in memory of Nathaniel Griswold Lorillard]]
* J&R Lamb Studios
** "Jesus with Angels" - Andrae Memorial Window (also called "Resurrection")<ref>''The Churchman.'' April 29, 1905. p. 646.</ref>
**"Iselin Memorial" (presumed)<ref>Femenella and Associates.</ref>
*[[Duffner and Kimberly#Key staff|J. Gordon Guthrie]]
**"Christ the Good Shepherd" - Post Memorial Window<ref name=":2" />
[[File:Jesus with Angels Lamb.jpg|thumb|"Jesus with Angels" - Memorial to Benjamin Henning Andrae, by [[J&R Lamb Studios|Lamb Studios]]]]

== Burials ==
The cemetery at St. Mary's was founded in 1910, soon after the deaths of [[Pierre Lorillard IV|Pierre Lorillard's]] daughter Emily Lorillard Kent and her husband, William Kent.<ref name=":0" /> Noted burials at St. Mary's include:<ref>{{Cite web|title=Saint Mary's-In-Tuxedo Church Cemetery Memorials|url=https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1959592/memorial-search?page=1#sr-193161537|url-status=live|access-date=May 31, 2021|website=[[Find a Grave]]}}</ref>

* [[Emily Post]], American author, novelist and socialite
* [[Katharine St. George|Katherine St. George]], [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] member of the [[United States House of Representatives]] from [[New York (state)|New York]], and cousin of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
* Henry Morgan Tilford, oil magnate; considered the founder of [[Standard Oil of California]]
*Richard Mortimer, real estate investor and [[Gilded Age]] socialite
*[[Frederic de Peyster Foster]], prominent lawyer and philanthropist
* Ellen Farnsworth Loomis, wife of investment banker and scientist [[Alfred Lee Loomis]]
*Herbert Claiborne Pell, father of U.S. Representative and Minister [[Herbert Pell]]
* Pierre Lorillard Barbey, son of prominent socialite [[Mary Lorillard Barbey]]
* John Insley Blair II, grandson of railroad magnate [[John Insley Blair]]

== Notes ==
<references />

== References ==

* Crofut, Doris (1975). ''St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo, 1888-1975''. Tuxedo Park, N.Y: Printed by Library Research Associates for St. Mary's-in-Tuxedo. [[OCLC]] [https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2006112 2006112].

== External links ==
{{Commons category|Churches in the Episcopal Diocese of New York}}
* [https://www.stmtux.org/ Official Website]
*[https://www.dioceseny.org/ Episcopal Diocese of New York]
*[http://www.cambridge2000.com/tiffany/html/site/3.128.1.html#3.128.1.1 More information on St. Mary's stained glass]


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