This is the view of the new Saint Mary's RC Church a few doors down from 247 Church Street. In Harriet's time, the older church would have been there, but it burned down in a fire November 1968, and was replaced by a gift of the James McCann Foundation. Jim McCann had been a lifelong member Saint Mary. Just around the corner we find The former Presbyterian Church, something very important in Harriet Wickes Winslow's life. Like Saint Mary, the original Presbyterian Church suffered a fire. Edmund Platt in his History of Poughkeepsie which ends at 1905 writes of the magnificent new Presbyterian Church under construction at the corner of Hamilton and Cannon Street.

The structure has been sold to another Christian group, and the dwindled Presbyterian congregation merged with the Presbyterian Church on route 55 near the Taconic Parkway. Sources indicate that Harriet Winslow contributed over half the funds for the construction. Inside there is a large stain glass window in honor of her husband John F Winslow, and a small chapel/meditation room named in her honor.

Harriet Wickes Winslow furnished this stained glass in memory of her late husband, John Flack Winslow, who died in 1892. The new church was under construction around 1905, and she was the principal donor to construction of the church.

The Marist College music and choral groups hold an Advent concern within the church each year. Harriet Wickes Winslow is buried with her husband in Albany Rural Cemetery. I like to think this beautiful church is her memorial for us here in Poughkeepsie.

Richard Foy 6 October 2012