Hyde Park Post Office Mural: Plans for St. James Church

Hyde Park Post Office Mural Panel 12. From "Murals in the Hyde Park Post Office": The Reverend Reuben Sherwood and two vestrymen, Archibald Rogers (grandfather of the Colonel in [panel 11] and Augustus Cowman discuss plans for St. James Church. Cowman (publisher of two papers in Poughkeepsie) went abroad to study church architecture in England and designed, supervised the building, and materially assisted in the financing of this church on his return. Sexton Richard Jenkins leaves the Rectory porch with a pot of Downing's tastefully toned buff paint." This panel was the subject of an animated... Mehr ...