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Our Heritage The church itself sits on a small rise in the town of Highland Falls on approximately two and a half acres of land, which looks down on North Main Street. The property includes the church, parish hall, thrift shop, and rectory, which was built in 1887 by J. P. Morgan. The town has numerous restaurants and shops which serve both local citizens as well as cadets and, especially on weekends, visitors and tourists to the Military Academy. The Academy Visitor's Center and the West Point Museum, the largest military museum in the western hemisphere, are directly across the street from the church. The Church of the Holy Innocents, Highland Falls A mission was established in 1841 in Highland Falls, which was then called Buttermilk Falls, in order to serve the surrounding population. Five years later, Robert W. Weir, a Professor of Drawing and Painting at the Military Academy and also a member of the mission, built the Church of the Holy Innocents using proceeds from the painting entitled "Embarkation of the Pilgrims," which had been commissioned by Congress for the Rotunda of the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. Professor Weir named and dedicated the church to the memory of two of his children, the "Holy Innocents," who had died at early ages. The children's memorial window faces east above the door. The Church of the Holy Innocents was consecrated on July 1, 1847, and soon became a house of worship for citizens of Highland Falls and the other local communities, for affluent New Yorkers who maintained houses along the banks of the Hudson River, as well as for military families. Among those who worshiped here was J. P. Morgan, who maintained a summer residence in Highland Falls and, as previously mentioned, built the Tudor-style rectory on the church grounds. Funds to build the sacristy and the parish hall were donated to the church by Mr. Morgan's family after his death. Another Morgan family legacy to the church is the beautiful Tiffany stained-glass window of God's Creation. It was donated to the church by Mrs. Herbert Satterlee in memory of her father, J. P. Morgan. The sea coast of Mount Desert Island, Maine, which was a favorite vacation destination of the Morgan family, was used as the model for the theme of creation. Creation Window contact us at holyinnocents@verizon.net
