Woodside Presbyterian Church was built in 1869 for Henry Burden, owner of the Burden Iron Works, on land owned by Erastus Corning, of Corning's Albany Iron Works, as part of an apparent reconciliation between these two often-feuding 19th century industrial giants.

The Church was last used by the Presbyterian congregation in 2003.
Thanks to the efforts of Ada Gates Patton and Christopher Burden, great-great-grandchildren of Henry Burden, and facilitated by the Hudson Mohawk Industrial Gateway, the landmark was saved from the wrecking ball. In 2007, the CAC purchased the building from the Burden heirs after they had resumed ownership of the property.

The stone church building was designed by architect Henry Dudley and erected in 1869.  A tablet set in the interior side of the south wall of the edifice displays the following inscription: "Woodside Memorial Church, dedicated to the service of the Triune God, has been erected to the memory of Helen Burden by her husband, Henry Burden, in accordance with her long-cherished and earnest desire, 1869."

The later-built stone chapel was almost certainly designed by Robert Robertson, one of the Burden family’s favorite architects, and was likely used by the Sunday school. The following inscription is lettered on a tablet on one of its walls: "Woodside Chapel. Erected A. D. 1883, by Margaret E. Proudfit, James A. Burden, and I. Townsend Burden, in memory of their children."

The Church and Chapel are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and are two of the few surviving buildings of the once vast Burden holdings.

Please join us in our efforts to restore these buildings so that they may remain for generations to come.