Englewood Makes History

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  • Clara Kellogg was the featured performer at the opening of the Athenaeum in Englewood in 1870. Clara Louise Kellogg (1842–1916) was one of the first American-born opera singers to achieve international fame. Born in Sumterville, South Carolina, and raised in New York, she…

  • Built in 1870- nw corner of Palisade- and Engle - burned down on Monday November 21, 1887.

  • Built by Andrew Demarest in 1859.

  • Fritz Kreisler (1875–1962) was one of the most celebrated violinists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Born in Vienna, he was a child prodigy who studied at the Vienna and Paris Conservatories before launching an international career. By the early 1900s he…

  • Mary Chontrelle Armstrong (c. 1876–October 3, 1926) was more than a music teacher; she was the central force behind Englewood’s emergence as a serious cultural community in the early twentieth century. As founder and director of the Englewood Conservatory of Music and organizer…

  • The Northern Valley Civic Music Association was formed in Englewood, New Jersey, in 1932 to bring world-class concert artists to the Northern Valley through a community subscription model. According to a February 5, 1932 article in The Record, the association was organized at…

  • Kirsten Flagstad (1895–1962) was one of the most celebrated dramatic sopranos of the twentieth century and is widely regarded as the greatest Wagnerian soprano of her era. Born in Hamar, Norway, she trained in Oslo and made her early career in Scandinavian opera before her…
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