St. Paul's Chapel (Staatsburg, New York)

The first Roman Catholic church in Staatsburgh was a stone structure built in 1849 by Rev.

Michael J. Riordan, pastor of St. Peter's, Poughkeepsie, on Clay Hill, on land owned by William Emmett, cousin of New York Attorney General Thomas Addis Emmet.

[1] It was served but Father Augustine P. Anderson, O.P., who also visited stations in Ulster and Sullivan counties.

This church was about two miles from Staatsburg, so a more convenient site was chosen at Staatsburgh, where St. Paul's was built in 1853.

St. Paul's operated as a mission church of St. Joseph's Chapel (Rhinecliff, New York), where Father Scully resided.