She also felt "utter loneliness", but this was soon replaced by activity. She landscaped the front yard of the rectory and the grounds around the church. Her work was described as lovely and very English. In addition to the improvements she made in the church buildings, Mrs. Crapsey ministered to the needs of the parishioners and other people. She provided clothing, some made by her and some used, for all ages: from layettes for babies to overcoats for old men. She continued this kind of ministry throughout her life. She became widely known in Rochester for organizing aid for young mothers, widows, and children. She helped her husband in working with boys who belonged to the mischievous gangs in the Averill Avenue district in which they lived. This work "resulted in disappearance of the gangs". Crapsey also worked with her husband in establishing the first kindergarten in Rochester. She worked with the women of St. Andrew's and organized them to do charitable work. Mrs. Crapsey persuaded her husband to start the first training school for kindergarten teachers in Rochester. Both Crapseys began and taught in a night school with classes in "domestic science and mechanical arts." In the summer of 1874, Crapsey accompanied her husband to the island of Bermuda where he conducted a preaching mission. When her husband received word that he was finally removed from office in November 1906, he went into St. Andrew's Church and walked up and down the aisle "mourning the death of his ministerial life", and she came over from the rectory and comforted him. Crapsey made a significant contribution to studies of the poetry and life of her daughter Adelaide Crapsey by keeping a scrapbook of her letters. Mrs. Crapsey's scrapbook is one of the only two collections of Adelaide's letters. In 1914, the Dau's Society Blue Book listing of prominent residents of Rochester listed Mr. and Mrs. Algernon S. (Trowbridge) Crapsey and their three children who were living at home. In 1922, the Consumers' League of New York listed her as a member of the board of governors. She was described as an attractive and dignified woman by her daughter's biographer Karen Alkalay-Gut. The Adelaide T. Crapsey Company In her husband's older years, when he was earning less money, Mrs. Crapsey augmented the family's income by forming the Adelaide T. Crapsey Company. The company began in 1881 as a Sewing-Guild in St.