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Brookside Cemetery
Brookside Cemetery is a burial ground established in 1876 by Englewood Residents. The original plot of land was six acres before the trustees purchased nineteen more acres on the west side of Engle Street. The chapel near the cemetery was built in 1860 and donated to the…Tags Death -
Pandora Book Peddlers
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… -
Dwight Morrow Estate
The Dwight Morrow Estate, also eventually called the Next Day Hill, where the Morrow family lived in Englewood was a forty-two-acre property. At the time of Elisabeth Cutter Reed Morrow's Death, thirty acres were located in Englewood and ten acres in Tenafly. After the passing… -
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses is a Christian church in Englewood. The first Kingdom Hall opened in 1939 on North Van Brunt Street. By 1948, it had moved to Engle Street and then moved again in 1963 to West Palisade Avenue.Tags Religion -
Teaneck High School
Teaneck High School is a public school. In 1922 the land was purchased to build the high school and students from grades seven through tenth began attending in 1929. The building was constructed in the Collegiate Gothic style, leading to students giving the school the nickname…Tags Education -
St. Paul's Episcopal Church
St. Paul's Episcopal Church was organized in 1865. The first church building was finished in 1866. The second church building was finished in 1899. The Parish House was completed in 1916. The east side addition was built in 1922. The first priest was Ozi William Whitaker.Tags Religion -
St. Anthony's Orthodox Church of Englewood
St. Anthony's Orthodox Church was the first Pan-Orthodox Parish in North America. In 1956 Mitchell Moore, Theodore Maloof, Abraham G. Debs, George Shamyer, Edward Deeb, Alex Sahadi, and George A. Hatab started the mission. They began the congregation at St. Paul's Episcopal…Tags Religion -
Almay's West Indian Kitchen
Opened in 1987, Almay's was Bergen County's first Caribbean Restaurant. Owned by Alvin Whilby, the restaurant was located at 98 West Palisade Avenue. -
Church of God in Christ
The Church of God in Christ is a Christian church in Englewood. The church has had numerous spiritual leaders including Reverand C.C. Chapman. Steven Schwartz is one of the most recent pastors. One of the church's structures was created on October 18, 1934.