Editing Cold Spring, New York (section)

===Churches===
[[File:Church of Our Lady, Cold Springs, from Robert N. Dennis collection of stereoscopic views.jpg|thumb|Our Lady church, circa 1855]]

In 1826, Union Church was built. By mutual agreement the Presbyterians used the building in the morning and the other religious groups in the afternoon. In 1830, the Baptists constructed a church on land donated by [[Samuel L. Gouverneur]].{{cn|date=May 2024}} The first Methodist church was built in 1833.<ref name=Floyd>[https://archive.org/stream/stmaryschurchinh00floy#page/n41/mode/2up Floyd-Jones, Elbert. ''St. Mary's Church in the Highlands'', Frank B. Howard, Poughkeepsie, 1920]</ref> The building was sold in 1870, and a new brick Italianate structure was built in 1868.<ref name=Grace/> The Dutch Reformed Church was built around 1855 in Neoclassical style. The building was later replaced by the Julia L. Butterfield Library.{{cn|date=May 2024}}

Many of the workers at the Foundry were Irish immigrants. Our Lady of Loretto church was constructed in 1833 of locally made red brick covered with stucco. The church was abandoned in 1906 and fell into disrepair. It was repaired and re-dedicated in 1977.<ref>[http://www.chapelrestoration.org/history.html "History", Chapel Restoration]</ref>

Saint Mary's in the Highlands church was incorporated in 1840. A second larger church was built in 1867, designed in the [[Gothic Revival architecture|Victorian Gothic]] style by architect and vestry member [[George Edward Harney]].<ref name=history>{{Cite web |url=http://stmaryscoldspring.org/history.html |title="History", The Episcopal Church of St Mary-in-the-Highlands |access-date=December 3, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161219005524/http://stmaryscoldspring.org/history.html |archive-date=December 19, 2016 |url-status=dead }}</ref>