Grantwood, New Jersey

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Coordinates: 40°49′36″N 73°59′13″W / 40.82667°N 73.98694°W / 40.82667; -73.98694
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Grantwood, New Jersey
Community
Grantwood is located in Bergen County, New Jersey
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Location of Grantwood in Bergen County in New Jersey
Grantwood is located in New Jersey
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Grantwood (New Jersey)
Grantwood is located in the United States
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Grantwood (the United States)
Coordinates: 40°49′36″N 73°59′13″W / 40.82667°N 73.98694°W / 40.82667; -73.98694
Country United States
State New Jersey
CountyBergen
BoroughsCliffside Park, Ridgefield
Elevation
[1]
269 ft (82 m)
Area codes201/551
GNIS feature ID876712[1]

Grantwood is an unincorporated community straddling the boroughs of Cliffside Park and Ridgefield, just south of Fort Lee, in eastern Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.[2]

Toponymy

Grantwood Heights Land Company was incorporated on February 16, 1900 by Frank Knox.

Hudson Palisades across the Hudson River from Grant's Tomb (40°48′48″N 73°57′47″W / 40.813333°N 73.963056°W / 40.813333; -73.963056) in Manhattan, New York City which was reached by 130th Street Ferry at Edgewater.[4][5][6][7][8]

Artists' colony

Grantwood was an artist's colony established in 1913 by

Orrick Johns among others.[14][15] Walter Conrad Arensberg was influential in supporting the colony.[16]

Motion picture industry

Movie studio-lab opened in 1915

The

motion picture capital of America.[17][18][19]

The E.K.Lincoln Studio was built in 1915 in Grantwood on

talkies came into being in 1927, the studio continued to be used to make Italian and Polish language films. By the end of the Depression, the studio was no longer for film production. The building burnt down the 1960s.[12]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Grantwood". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. ^ Locality Search, State of New Jersey. Accessed June 9, 2016.
  3. ^ "Corporations of New Jersey". State of New Jersey. p. 272. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
  4. ISBN 9780823216796
  5. ISBN 1-4116-6188-5
    . "Knox was a real-estate developer, widely known around the area, who had named a section of Cliffside Park 'Grantwood' because of its location directly across the Hudson River from Grant's Tomb."
  6. ^ Staff. "North Jersey Development: Bergen County's 27 Per Cent. Growth in Population Since 1900.", The New York Times, May 24, 1908. Accessed February 16, 2015.
  7. ^ The Origin of New Jersey Place Names
  8. ^ "Homes on the Palisades", The New York Times, September 4, 1910. Accessed August 22, 2023. "The section of the Palisades immediately at the other side of the 130th Street ferry is really the gateway of a vast area which in a very short time is bound to develop into a sort of metropolitan annex. with Edgewater at the foot of the cliffs, Grantwood at the summit, and Morsemere on the western slope."
  9. ^ "Creativity in the Palisades: the Art Colony of Ridgefield". Hidden New Jersey. August 22, 2013. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
  10. ^ Conte, Joseph (Fall 2003). "The New York Avant-Garde, 1913-1929". www.acsu.buffalo.edu. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  11. ^ Van Gelder, Lawrence. "ARTS BRIEFING", The New York Times, February 12, 2003 | accessdate = 2015-02-21.
  12. ^ a b Pollock, Diane M. "History of the Borough of Ridgefield". Borough of Ridgefield. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  13. ^ "Forum Davidson: Little Magazines & Modernism; The Glebe". Archived from the original on October 10, 2011. Retrieved March 8, 2015.
  14. ^ Churchill, Suzanne W. (2011). "An Introduction to OTHERS: A MAGAZINE of the NEW VERSE". The Modernist Journals Project of Brown University and the University of Tulsa. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
  15. ^ Stavitsky, Gail. AFTERWORD: "Artists and Art Colonies of Ridgefield, New Jersey", Traditional Fine Arts Organization. .
  16. ISBN 9780754653325
  17. ISBN 0-86196-653-8
  18. ^ "Fort Lee Film Commission". Archived from the original on July 12, 2009. Retrieved March 5, 2015.
  19. ^ Rose, Lisa (April 29, 2012). "100 years ago, Fort Lee was the first town to bask in movie magic". The Star-Ledger. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
  20. ^ "E. K. Lincoln Movie Studio". Wikimapia. Retrieved March 3, 2015.
  21. ISBN 0861966538
    . Retrieved February 22, 2015.
  22. ^ Fighting Chance. Motion Picture World. 1915. p. 1618. Retrieved February 28, 2015.
  23. ISBN 0-86196-653-8
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  24. ^ Koszarski, Richard. Fort Lee: The Film Town . John Libbey, 2004. p. 99.
  25. ^ Moving Picture World , June 19, 1915, p. 1922.
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