Pandora’s Book Peddlers was a distinctive, community-rooted independent bookstore that played an outsized cultural role in Englewood and northern New Jersey beginning in the early 1980s. Founded in October 1983 by partners Pamela Sheldrick and Vivian Scheinmann, the shop was…
The Phelps Estate was the home of William Walter Phelps. It started as a small farmhouse, the Garrit Brinkerhoff place, owned by Jacob Finck on April 9th, 1865. The house acted as a summer home for the family. Phelps moved to Englewood/Teaneck permanently after the death of his…
Smalbein's Bakery was a local bakery chain. Gustave Smallbein created the store in 1904 and retired in 1918. His son, Paul W. re-opened the store in 1928.
The Taylor Bliss house was built in 1876. The architecture of the home is Victorian. Delos Bliss, the vice president at Palisade Trust and Guaranty lived there as did his daughter, Ethel Bliss. The house was purchased by the Community Synagogue of Tenafly and Englewood in 2003…