Englewood | |||||||||||||||||
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| Location | Depot Square, Englewood, New Jersey | ||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 40°53′43″N 73°58′30″W / 40.89527°N 73.97490°W | ||||||||||||||||
| Owned by | Northern Railroad of New Jersey (1859–1942) Erie Railroad (1942–1960) Erie Lackawanna Railway (1960–1976) | ||||||||||||||||
| Line(s) | Erie Railroad Northern Branch | ||||||||||||||||
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| Platform levels | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Station code | 1921[1] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | May 26, 1859[2] | ||||||||||||||||
| Closed | September 30, 1966[3] | ||||||||||||||||
| Rebuilt | 1898,[4] 1925[5] | ||||||||||||||||
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| September 1925 | Original station depot razed.[6] | ||||||||||||||||
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Englewood is a former railroad station at Depot Square in Englewood, New Jersey. Once served by the Erie Railroad's Northern Branch, the building is located in the city's town center along the ROW now used as a branch line by CSX Transportation.[7] The station at Depot Plaza (as it was originally known) was one of the original stations upon opening of the Northern Railroad of New Jersey, which included two others in the town, Van Brunts (later Nordhoff) and Highwood (later Hudson Avenue). The building has undergone various incarnations as restaurants, a recording studio, and a performing arts school.[8] The proposed Northern Branch Corridor Project extension the Hudson–Bergen Light Rail would pass the station along the line.
- ^ "List of Station Names and Numbers". Jersey City, New Jersey: Erie Railroad. May 1, 1916. Retrieved January 14, 2011.
- ^ Baer, Christopher T. (April 2015). "A General Chronology of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Its Predecessors and Successors and Its Historical Context: 1859" (PDF). Pennsylvania Railroad Technical & Historical Society. p. 32. Retrieved July 13, 2021.
- ^ "Old Landmark is Being Razed". The Bergen Evening Record. Hackensack, New Jersey. September 15, 1948. p. 34. Retrieved December 26, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ Van Valen 1900, p. 587.
- ^ "Englewood's New Erie Station". The Bergen Evening Record. Hackensack, New Jersey. October 24, 1925. p. 66. Retrieved December 27, 2018 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Working on Wrecking Old Erie Station Begun". The Bergen Evening Record. Hackensack, New Jersey. September 12, 1925. p. 6. Retrieved November 5, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Northern Branch Corridor DEIS" (PDF). December 2011. Appendix H: Historic Properties and Resources.
The Northern Railroad's chief engineer, along with New York lawyer J. Wyman Jones and a few friends, obtained control of six farms and mapped streets, and, on August 15, 1859, registered Englewood, the nucleus of the present city, in the County Seat of Hackensack. By 1887, the railroad had erected three stations in Englewood to accommodate travelers and businessmen; Van Brunts (later Nordhoff) in the south and Englewood and Highwood (near Ivy Lane) to the north. The 1884 Sanborn map of downtown Englewood shows the depot located on the west side of the railroad just north of Palisade Avenue….However, the former Englewood Station, modified extensively for its current use as a recording studio, has lost much of its historic architectural integrity.
- ^ "Photo of the Day: Performing Arts School, BergenPAC, Englewood NJ". A Boat Against the Current. January 5, 2014.
