Englewood Makes History

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  • 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…

  • William Howard Taft (1857–1930) was an American lawyer, jurist, and statesman best known as the only person to serve both as President of the United States and later as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Taft built his early career in public service as…

  • T & A Meat Market was a business owned by Thomas Moschetto. It was located on West Palisade Avenue. 
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  • Isaac Louis Swift was a pivotal Orthodox rabbi whose leadership helped shape Jewish religious life in Englewood and across Bergen County during the second half of the twentieth century. Born in Liverpool, England, into a distinguished rabbinic family, Swift was immersed from an…
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  • The Sun Ra Arkestra is one of the most influential and unconventional ensembles in jazz history. Founded in Chicago in the 1950s by Sun Ra, the group blended big-band swing, free jazz, experimental improvisation, electronic instruments, theatrical costumes, and Afrofuturist…

  • William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) was an influential American sociologist, economist, and public intellectual who helped shape early social science in the United States, while also promoting ideas that later drew sustained criticism. A longtime professor at Yale University,…

  • Graham Sumner was an active and influential figure in Englewood civic, educational, cultural, and economic life in the early twentieth century. He served as president of the Englewood Board of Education, placing him at the center of local school leadership during a period of…
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