St. James Episcopal Church (Hyde Park, New York)

St. James Episcopal Church
St. James Episcopal Church
Location	4526 Albany Post Road Hyde Park, New York
Country	United States
Denomination	Episcopal Church
Website	stjameshydepark.org
History
Founded	1811 (1811)
Dedication	St. James
Consecrated	October 10, 1811
Architecture
Architectural type	Church
Completed	1844
Administration
Province	Province II
Diocese	New York
Clergy
Bishop	Matthew Heyd
Priest in charge	The Rev. Meredith Kadet Sanderson
Deacon	The Rev. Gail Ganter-Toback
Laity
Organist	Kyeongji Koh

St. James Episcopal Church is a parish church of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, located at 4526 Albany Post Road (U.S. Route 9) in Hyde Park, New York, across the street from the Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site. The church is associated with Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, whose family estate is located 2.7 miles south of the church. Roosevelt served in the vestry and as senior warden of the church, even during his presidency, and he, his wife Eleanor, and their family regularly attended service there whenever they were in Hyde Park.^[1]

The church reported 206 members in 2016 and 108 members in 2023; no membership statistics were reported in 2024 parochial reports. Plate and pledge income reported for the congregation in 2024 was $186,912 with average Sunday attendance (ASA) of 73 persons.^[2]

View of the east side, from the churchyard

Sign on U.S. Route 9 (Albany Post Road)

The churchyard contains the graves or memorials of a variety of notables, including several members of Franklin Roosevelt's family.

• James Roosevelt I (1828–1900), FDR's father
• Rebecca Brien Howland Roosevelt (1831–1876), James' first wife
• Sara Ann Delano Roosevelt (1854–1941), James' second wife, FDR's mother
• James Roosevelt Roosevelt (1854–1927), son of James Roosevelt and Rebecca Howland, FDR's half-brother
• Four of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt's children:
  • Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Dall Boettiger Halsted (1906–1975) and her third husband Dr. James Addison Halsted (1905–1984)
  • The first Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. (March–November 1909)
  • The second Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. (1914–1988)
  • John Aspinwall Roosevelt (1916–1981)

• Samuel Bard (1742–1821), personal physician to George Washington, founder of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
• Elbridge Thomas Gerry (1837–1927), activist and reformer, grandson of Founding Father Elbridge Gerry
• Francis G. Landon (1859–1947), soldier, politician, member of the New York State Assembly
• Morgan Lewis (1754–1844), Governor of New York 1804–1807, colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolution, general in the United States Army during the War of 1812
• Ogden Livingston Mills (1884–1937), Secretary of the Treasury under President Herbert Hoover
• Nathaniel Pendleton (1756–1821), lawyer and judge, served as second to Alexander Hamilton during duel with Aaron Burr in 1804
• Edmund Henry Pendleton (1788–1862), Dutchess County judge, U.S. Congressman from New York

• Church website