Editing Rosendale (CDP), New York (section)

=== Churches ===
{{See also|Rosendale Library}}
[[File:Rosendale, NY - Dutch Reformed Church - Belltower Lighting.jpg|thumb|left|The former [[Dutch Reformed Church|Dutch Reformed]] church, now a [[Studio glass|glass studio]]]]
Rosendale Village has had four churches throughout its existence: a [[Baptist]], [[Dutch Reformed Church|Dutch Reformed]], [[Catholic Church|Catholic]] and [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal]] church. Of these churches, only the Catholic one still functions as a church.<ref name="rosendale-churches">{{Cite news |title=Rosendale's historic churches |newspaper=[[Daily Freeman]] |location=Kingston, NY |first=Marj |last=Balch |date=1986-06-15}}</ref>

The first Baptist minister arrived in Rosendale in March 1839, and the first [[baptism]]s took place on April&nbsp;5, 1840. The ''First Associate Baptist Society in the Village of Rosendale'' was incorporated on May&nbsp;22, 1840. A meeting house for the society was built in 1842; it was dedicated on October&nbsp;17 and its [[pew]]s were purchased on November&nbsp;4. The church underwent a [[Christian revival|revival]] between 1875 and 1876, and was reincorporated on May&nbsp;1, 1876, as the ''Baptist Church of Rosendale''.{{sfn|Sylvester|1880|p=235}} It was closed as a church in 1929, and sold in 1972 to a local filmmaker, Walter Helmuth, who used it as a house.<ref name="rosendale-churches" /> At some point it housed a "fraternal organization of farmers" and was known as the "Grange". In the 1990s it was used as a theater. On January&nbsp;15, 2004, the building burned down. Though the town's [[fire station]] was directly across the street, the extreme cold hindered firefighters' efforts to control the fire.<ref>{{Cite news |title=Rosendale loses landmark |url=http://www.dailyfreeman.com/articles/2004/01/16/top%20stories/10818142.txt |date=2004-01-16 |access-date=2011-03-09 |newspaper=[[Daily Freeman]] |location=Kingston, NY |first=Ariel |last=Zangla}}</ref>

The ''Protestant Reformed Dutch Church of Rosendale'' was incorporated on November&nbsp;28, 1843. The church originally cost $2,500 to build, and was designed to seat 300 people.{{sfn|Sylvester|1880|pp=235–236}} It burned down and was rebuilt in 1895.<ref name="rosendale-churches" /> In 1985, it was renovated and converted into a [[Studio glass|glass studio]] called ''Belltower Lighting''.<ref name="main-street" />

Catholic priests had come to Rosendale as early as 1840, and the first [[Mass (liturgy)|mass]] in the village was held in a [[Cooper (profession)|cooper's shop]]. The original ''Church of St. Peter'' was completed in the summer of 1850, and the first mass in that building was held on August&nbsp;15. The church was not officially incorporated until April&nbsp;29, 1865. A newer, larger building was constructed in 1876, on the same road as the village's rail depot. The new building followed an [[English Gothic architecture]] style. It was made of bricks, created near the [[North River (Hudson River)|North River]], and was ornamented with yellow bricks from [[Perth Amboy, New Jersey]], and [[sandstone]] from [[Amherst, New York]]. The first mass in the new church occurred on December&nbsp;25, 1876; the building's total construction cost was $31,000.{{sfn|Sylvester|1880|pp=236–238}} The ''Church of St. Peter'' is the only one of the village's churches that still functions as a church.<ref name="rosendale-churches" />

Rosendale's Episcopal church, the ''All Saints' Chapel'', was built in 1876.<ref name="library-history" /> It was hit hard by the floods of 1955, to the point where "the rising water floated the organ up toward the altar".<ref name="rosendale-churches" /> It was abandoned after the flooding, and was purchased by a local cement magnate, so that it could be converted into the [[Rosendale Library]]; the library association had its charter granted on October&nbsp;24, 1958. The building was severely damaged by a fire on January&nbsp;15, 1975, but was restored, and a new wing was added; the wing was named after Anna Mae Auchmoedy, the building's first librarian. In 1986, the library was listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="library-history">{{Cite web |url=http://www.rosendalelibrary.org/allfiles/history.html |title=The History of Rosendale Library |first=Linda |last=Tantillo |access-date=2011-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080518231143/http://www.rosendalelibrary.org/Allfiles/History.html |archive-date=2008-05-18 }}</ref>