Christ Church, an Episcopal congregation organized in 1763 as the Episcopal Mission at Fredericksburgh by three former English officers who settled in the area after the French and Indian War, has occupied this site since Beverly Robinson and his wife Susanah set aside land from their portion of the Philipse Patent for an original log structure and burying ground. Because the Episcopal Church in the Colonies was managed from England and involved in colonial politics, Tory groups naturally gathered around Episcopal clergy, and during the Revolution the original church, though still standing in 1778, was closed and reportedly used as an armory guarded by the local militia under Colonel Henry Ludington because of its strategic location on the main road from New England to the Hudson. In 1782 Beverly Robinson’s lands were taken by the State and sold, but this site was retained for the church and a cemetery, and in 1797 the church was incorporated under New York law with the papers signed by Matthew Paterson, judge of the Dutchess County Court of Common Pleas. The congregation worshipped in several successive buildings here: the original church was replaced in 1814; in 1835 the congregation voted to replace that building, and Trinity Church in New York donated almost 75 percent of the cost of a colonial-style church that remained in use for 67 years; in 1902 that building was replaced by a more modern structure given in memory of the mother of Mrs. James Cornwall; and after that building burned to the ground in February 1911, with nothing saved, the congregation rebuilt within the year with help from both inside and outside the parish, including the Presbyterian Church and the grange. The present building was dedicated on December 21, 1911.