Established 1876 Country United States Size 6 acres (24,000 m) Founded 1876 | Type Non denominational Website brooksidecemetery.com Phone +1 201-568-1642 | |
Address 425 Engle St, Englewood, NJ 07631, USA Hours Closed today SaturdayClosedSundayClosedMonday7:30AM–3:30PMTuesday7:30AM–3:30PMWednesday7:30AM–3:30PMThursday7:30AM–3:30PMFriday7:30AM–3:30PM Similar Cedar Park and Beth El Cemeteries, George Washingt Memorial, Fairview Cemetery, Maple Grove Park Cemetery, Riverside Cemetery Profiles | ||
Brookside Cemetery in a historical cemetery in Englewood, New Jersey.
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History
It was started in May 1876, by a group of Englewood residents who purchased 6 acres (24,000 m2) of land for a cemetery. The property sits on the East side of Engle Street adjacent to Tenafly, New Jersey. The cemetery was named for the brook running beside its eastern boundary. A chapel built with the local pink sandstone was erected on East Palisades Avenue and dedicated in March 1860. It was the first Presbyterian Church in Englewood and the first in Bergen County, New Jersey. It had a seating capacity of 200, and was expanded to accommodate 800 people was built in 1880. In 1887, the chapel was donated to the cemetery, and moved, stone by stone, to its present site near the entrance gate to the east side of the cemetery. When the chapel was moved, and reconstructed, the building was rotated and the entrance moved from the west side of the building to the east side. Mayor, and historian, Austin Nicholas Volk calls it: "One of the most beautiful cemeteries in Bergen County, New Jersey." Schuyler Warmflash refers to is as an "outdoor museum" and he wrote "[The] change of attitude — which made sites devoted to the dead reassuringly pleasant to the living — is clearly manifest in Brookside Cemetery".