Church Of The Good Shepherd (Raquette Lake, New York)
The island church was a subject for many well-known photographers during the late 19th century - Seneca Ray Stoddard, William Henry Jackson and Edward Bierstadt. John Whetten Ehninger's 1881 painting of it is now at the Adirondack Museum. Good Shepherd was also mentioned in writings by the authors and poets Nessmuk, Seneca Ray Stoddard, the Rev. E.O. Flagg and Alfred L. Donaldson, among others.
The first treasurer of the summer chapel was John Boyd Thacher, a future mayor of Albany (1886–88, 1896–97). The warden was William West Durant.
The church is open to the public annually on the first Sunday of August at 3:00 pm, with free transportation from the Raquette Lake Village dock beginning at 2:00 pm. Visitors are also invited to come by canoe, guide boat and rowboat as they did more than a century ago.
St. William's Roman Catholic Church (1890), a nearby shingle style church on Long Point, was also designed by Cady and built by Durant.
References
External links
- Church of the Good Shepherd website
- History of St. Hubert's Isle
- 1880 Church of the Good Shepherd Raquette Lake, New York
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