https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/blog daily 0.75 2022-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597163625994-KTLKN9G7PVQ3FCAT5KAQ/Steve_jaunty_hat.jpg Blog https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/blog/usr-voices-spotlight monthly 0.5 2022-07-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/669abeee-baea-4c37-8941-a58d1e97d687/Screen+Shot+2022-07-27+at+4.00.43+PM.png Blog - USR Voices Spotlight - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/blog/john-and-albert-debaun-and-the-australian-gold-rush monthly 0.5 2021-07-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619997052193-MBPLX0TRUIZHM8CWZRJA/Albert+Hopper+De+Baun.jpg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush Albert Hopper DeBaun, born in Upper Saddle River in 1857. Photo courtesy of Albert’s great granddaughter, Clare Macken, of Sydney, Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619997109347-KSTRSZUZ4DSX31RP3OS7/John_De_Baun.jpg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush John DeBaun, born in the James DeBaun house in Upper Saddle River, NJ in 1852. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1620001576731-QQ4KE7QO4S7EZRJ6XL1Q/DeBaun_Overhead_1950.jpg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush This overhead image from about 1950 shows the James DeBaun farm on West Saddle River Road in Upper Saddle River, where John and Albert were born. The house still stands, but the barns are no longer extant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619997544119-SJ6LHJQ2ZMT9WB5YBE3M/Bourke-Street.jpeg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush View of Silverton, New South Wales. John DeBaun’s hotel on Bourke Street is the 2-floor structure with double porches on the right. It is no longer standing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619997825997-UTXEYOTMVPIGTN8N8TOZ/Silverton_1887_DeBaunsRight.jpg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush A drawing, likely done from the image above, in 1887, showing John DeBaun’s hotel on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619997920174-N32FJ4YC88RH6T9T3I1K/1885-Burke-Street-West.jpeg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush Circa 1885 view of Burke Street in Silverton looking west with John DeBaun’s hotel on the left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619997649381-MKUE0RSBZLRKVYN2TWR9/DeBaunsHotel_Silverton_1888.jpg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush As included in the caption above, this image shows John DeBaun’s hotel in 1888 when Lord Carrington, Governor of New South Wales, visited. It brought quite a crowd. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619997975154-DVRKZEDZHULIKEE9CLJ9/1967-Ruins-DeBauns-Silverton-Hotel.jpeg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush This image was taken in 1967 of the remaining ruins of John’s hotel. The foundation is still there today. The town is essentially a ghost town now, with the population very much shrunken and industry focused on tourism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1620006679136-V36CP0OJT723ALV99CGQ/Screen+Shot+2021-05-02+at+9.50.44+PM.png Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush An article from the Express and Telegraph (Adelaide, SA) mentioning John’s return trip February 4, 1886 to Upper Saddle River, after making a small fortune in Silverton. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619998439213-G8CZF5BDB5QDJ087K57J/Grand+Hotel+Broken+Hill_1931.jpg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush This 1931 image from the Australia National University Archives shows John DeBaun’s hotel in Broken Hill, NSW. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1620007233612-R813RCIKTVJTTCUP67QJ/Broken-Hill-NMA-photo-a854001h.jpg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush This early image shows what Broken Hill looked like at the height of the mining boom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619999707883-N5CCAWBORZ0XVVGPMYAE/CL169-58_20.jpg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush From Broken Hill, John moved west to Coolgaridie in Western Australia. This wonderful print was done in the late 1800s and shows an overall view of Coolgardie, though John DeBaun’s bakery and hotel and not visible in the image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619998301261-OMLLVJXQF3VLGXPSZX80/Great-Western-Hote-Cool-Copy.jpg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush John De Baun’s Great Western Hotel, also known as De Baun’s, in Coolgardie in 1894. It was built as a simple barrack for miners, but began as just a bakery with John selling bread made in a simple oven. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619998248692-CYK72V1204J6SFT0TCKM/GreatWestern_Center_Cobb-Co-Coaches-LeavingHotel-Coolgardie-97-62-456x143.jpg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush Stagecoaches outside the Great Western Hotel in Coolgardie, Western Australia, likely in the 1890s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619998573726-TC5P48HOF64VQ04PYHHX/Great+Western+in+Coolgardie_1894.jpg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush This image from 1894 shows the series of buildings that made up the Great Western Hotel in Coolgardie. The caption on the photo reads, “Coach leaving J. De Baun G-Western Hotel For Southern ….? Coolgardie ?/12/1894” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619997441484-36KTKV21U5NXR71ST99D/RachelDeBaunGrave.jpg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush John’s first wife, Rachel, died in 1895 while they were living in Coolgardie, Western Australia. This is an image of her broken gravestone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619998741388-72SPFT2MTEL75EZL7IW5/Great-Western-Hotel-after-fire-in-1897-1.jpg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush John left Coolgardie for Perth and either leased or sold the Great Western. It burned down in 1897. This image shows the aftermath of the fire. The same chimney is visible that appears in the image above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619998517446-MLGEONA3XF60IJFYNS6B/FreemasonsHotel_TornDownForPalaceHotel.png Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush John purchased the Freemasons Hotel in Perth, seen here, which housed one of the country’s first pubs. He demolished it to construct the Palace Hotel (below) on St. Georges Terrace. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619997269037-Z0YAIA7LWQJ5I2Z4VHGJ/PalaceHotel_1897.jpg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush The Palace Hotel, Perth, c. 1905, which occupied a prominent corner location. John hired architects Ernest Saunders Porter and Edmond Neville Thomas to design the structure. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1620000620807-Q2C69NKU0XENG9DCM9BP/PalaceHotelLeft_1890.jpg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush View of Perth in 1890 with the Palace Hotel on the left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619997332336-45N9MRRYDA2XKR7K8XE3/PalaceHotel_Perth_DiningRoom_1910.png Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush Palace Hotel Dining Room c. 1910 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1620001675375-XRIHHP08EZRXUEQG2OI3/PalceHotelInterior_Current.png Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush The former dining room of the Palace Hotel has been restored and currently houses Meat & Wine Perth, as seen above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619997369831-INONNRWULPBK8WJ7NJNN/PalaceHotelInterior.jpg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush Palace Hotel, Perth, Smoking Lounge c. 1910 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1620007028390-278VNIJRGH7Z33AMERZS/palace-hotel.jpg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush This is a more recent image of what the lobby of the Palace Hotel looked like. 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Six of John’s ships were lost in a typhoon that killed dozens of people. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1620006446513-W58FTXCWO5QF334JEIV9/nla.news-page000001313485-nla.news-article14930148-L3-b3fc5467b0d1c57f5e242c876b2df1ac-0001.jpg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619999557143-PD01EYZYTBRYP4XBTB34/AlbertHDeBaunObituary_1918.png Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush The obituary of Albert De Baun, from 1918. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619999469989-LSZUYA1V0GQBSB06M1ZE/AlbertJohnDeBaun_1912.jpg Blog - John and Albert DeBaun and the Australian Gold Rush Albert John De Baun, Esq, in 1912, when he was awarded a scholarship at Melbourne University. 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https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/history-and-mission daily 0.75 2023-01-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597180219875-7SBG383QR7F87U4VNALR/Bikes-Johnstone+Ibsen+Hopper.jpg History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597521028889-N0LDF32FGOA27ALAYTVU/Blue+marker+dedication.jpg History & Mission Pictured here are Fred Hampton, Merle Wulster, USR Mayor, Claire Tholl, Kay Yeomans, Bob Terry and Grace and Clinton Carlough at the dedication of the historic plaque outside the Hopper-Goetschius House Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597586410434-II5MOFZO1SRSBZXS52TX/Garden+committee+1989.jpg History & Mission The Garden Committee was formed early on and its dedicated volunteers continue to keep the Museum property looking beautiful and bringing back Lizzie Goetschius’ original plantings. Seen here are original members of the Garden Committee in 1989. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597522619595-K753BTE7LMI0ZNZMD9V3/barn+dedication.jpg History & Mission - Barn dedication - 1990 After painstakingly dismantling and moving the Van Riper-Tice Barn to the Hopper-Goetschiuse House Museum, an official dedication took place with Joe Sheffel, who provided lumber, Mayor Frank Grout, Bill Yeomans, Clinton and Grace Carlough. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597586238650-U4YSBF2QLXA9PHK4X2GL/HPC-Shirley+%26+Alan+Newman.jpg History & Mission Shirley and Alan Newman beside their historic plaque on their 1880 Queen Anne Victorian. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597162415910-PX4FN5TOUIT8R6WNFK5T/out-kitchen-side-view_orig.jpg History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597162421070-F6RB11J56XQVMKWMMD9T/millstone-2_orig.jpg History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597162432914-JJ0GQFHJNAYMAODL0CCA/img-3449_1_orig.png History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597162434518-NISAP8KTHQAS8P3ARQRH/dron-2_orig.jpg History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597162438709-CUS0IBBFR5U2OHSN6U36/dron-1_orig.jpg History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597162472847-WZINOMMIMYIY1DL3YBWS/wheels_orig.jpg History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597162511370-BLVF9WC9QR0NM8WXLSX0/blacksmith-gaspar-3_orig.jpg History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598578663852-SDZ0P96QFJVFZ9R2YFLW/Screen+Shot+2020-08-27+at+7.47.23+PM.png History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598578669770-KLGY5FZDFK1UB9A504RR/Screen+Shot+2020-08-27+at+7.47.01+PM.png History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598578722977-QZ4DNC9ESMO9IZPHAUTG/1+pg-HG+house+for+page+1.jpg History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598578789509-SVAX4SWD8KU6AH5EQ2LR/3+Nona+Maher+reading+in+the+one-room+school.JPG History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598578814239-0JJGIF9VBY26O8SD3JSB/4-6b+Steve%27s+desk.jpg History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598578831981-3IUVTSE7F8BHOAU4JKQJ/5+memorial+day+color+2010%3F.jpg History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598578849379-67RIU24SJI9UHO83589Z/5-6b+Market+wagon+at+museum_new.jpg History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598578867217-J344TJLIA8LRH09R812M/5-16b+Mill+Stone.jpg History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598578889669-WPI922TLD3Y6KXEWEUX9/6-3b+Dutch+door+hinge+blue+paint.jpg History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598578935916-L0W7EEGZ1YXRUELCLBZN/6-53+Holly+hocks+%26+outhouse.jpg History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598578947539-TZNDX77YMLVBKOGSCGC1/7+Madeleine+in+West+wing+kitchenGOOD.jpg History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598578973390-OFDX4BLBT2YBXNKGX8RC/8+The+Garden+Committee%27s+cookie+table.jpg History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598579012012-LBAYMFZT5QXMR8FCV4IK/13+Blacksmith+at+his+forgeGOOD+2.jpg History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598579026315-MA9QUFOAFHP1JIVRP2BW/15.+cider+press+in+the+Dutch+barn2.jpg History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598579018210-DMSOTNYW0R2HQBFPQEBJ/14+Eve+%26+Clara+in+one-room+school.JPG History & Mission https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598579146833-0M0G2QOMIGRPSSC7BDZC/Canning-Jars2.jpg History & Mission https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/join-us daily 0.75 2023-07-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598576342450-Z2E3FD6ECVOE09RT0WSF/Lyra+12-+picnic+copy.jpg Join Us https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/history-of-usr daily 0.75 2020-09-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597370661116-82JXB8NR629PXREO37OV/6-4b+Van+Kampens+walking+by+church+cropped.jpg Upper Saddle River History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600190875826-LUEAVMWR6NCOYYLVGHLA/Claire+Tholl+1947.jpg Upper Saddle River History - Claire k. tholl Photo taken in 1947 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597674472122-RYR8DW7O39BEC21MX2MZ/Indian+Artifacts.png Upper Saddle River History - LEnape artifacts found on the berdan property Some of the many Lenape Indian artifacts found by Cornelius Berdan on his farm property where the current Emil A. Cavallini Middle School stands today. They were donated to the Upper Saddle River Historical Society in 1978. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597158026248-UVT60PSBD0PVAWXXCM0M/Indian+Drying+Tree-BW-by+Old+Stone+Church.jpg Upper Saddle River History - LEnape drying tree The large tree above was used by the Lenape people as a drying tree. The tree became rotted and a large section was brought to the property of the Hopper-Goetschius House Museum when it was cut down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598408952419-3JTLS1I7496FSYUNQ39U/slave+cemetery.jpg Upper Saddle River History This is one of the last existing markers in the Hopper Slave Cemetery. Tom Dated, editor of the Home & Store News took the photo in the 1970s. In 2011, Alexander Gates of Rutgers University used ground-penetrating radar to locate gravesites at the cemetery. He said that there were more than 100 people buried there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598411143463-9N4SII9RJ1EA6VQMSO4G/Slave+Cemetery+Designation+-NAACP.jpg Upper Saddle River History - Cemetery dedication The cemetery was restored in 2016 and a new iron fence installed. A dedication ceremony was held. Pictured are Rev. Ella Hayes, Associate Minister from Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Hackensack, Boy Scouts Troop 133, David Bernhardt, Eagle Scout Daniel Hynes, Anthony Tarbutton, and Matthea Shames, along with Rev. Robert Fretz of the Old Stone Church and Anthony Cureton, president of Bergen County NAACP. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598195598033-DF0FD99QAC06FZ2SMWJE/Old+Stone+Church+1898.jpg Upper Saddle River History Looking north to the Old Stone Church in 1898, this photo was taken from the property of Jacob H. Zabriskie. In the distance is the Hopper-Woll house (when it still looked Victorian) and barn and at right a no longer extant barn. The church had stained glass windows here prior to its restoration to the original fenestration of a grid of clear glass lights. Many consider the Old Stone Church to be the most beautiful in Bergen County. It is worth a visit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597521585820-RS9X5SWWRU58G8IVKL9S/Post+Mill+from+sw.jpg Upper Saddle River History - Post mill The Post Mill seen here was built about 1800 on what is now the corner of Old Stone Church Road and West Saddle River Road. It was converted to a private home by the Yeomans family in 1938 and is still owned by the family today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597521369805-ECPXQ2O3VFMW9P4DX73K/Walthery+barn+1928-fixed+2.jpg Upper Saddle River History - Walthery’s barn This image shows the barn of the Walthery family on West Saddle River Road near Old Stone Church Road, which was used as a wheelwright shop. Upper Saddle River’s first elections were held on the second floor of the barn in 1898. The photo was taken by the Hopper family in 1928. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598574682020-4QNJLWJZ2JMI7YA13M2M/12b.+Lizzie+at+stoverSquirrel+dinner+1950s.jpg Upper Saddle River History Lizzie Carlough Goetschius prepares a squirrel soup dinner for local friends. Lizzie provided a wealth of information about the town’s history and her own reminiscences. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598409250379-0VR260TZFVAATN9C26JI/MapDetail.jpg Upper Saddle River History A detail of the 1912 map showing household names along Lake Street and East and West Saddle River Roads. “G. Goetschius” marks the spot where George Goetschius was living in what is now the Hopper-Goetschius House Museum. See the link below for more maps. https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/history-of-goetschius-house daily 0.75 2021-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597369806758-L33M412MW46Q05F22CXI/Goets+house-SR_updated.jpg Goetschius House History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597369337186-WP2Z9NJEC8TA4JTTUESW/01.+Goetschius+hs+c.+1890_sepia.jpg Goetschius House History The Hopper-Goetschius house has been the subject of many studies. It appears in Rosalie Bailey’s 1936 book, Pre-Revolutionary Dutch Houses and was included in the WPA’s study of stone houses. This image dates to about 1890. The hitching posts are still there and a picket fence, which did not last very long, lines the property along East Saddle River Road. The photo in the banner at the top of the page is from John Hosey Osborn’s Life in the Old Dutch Homesteads. The image was taken in the 1920s and shows the back of the house. The grapevine fence is gone, but the large iron pot for rendering fat and making soap is in the barn. Note the 12-pane over 8-pane Colonial windows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598573030214-249E2HF2G44TLR5V05PL/StephenMariaEckersonGoetschius1892.png Goetschius House History Circa 1892 cabinet photos of Stephen J. Goetschius (1820-1893) and his wife, Maria Eckerson, former residents of the Hopper-Goetschius house and grandparents to Steve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597361098901-V6R0C3CB8KFH00PMNBHV/LizzieSteveKateGeorge.jpg Goetschius House History The last residents of the house, Lizzie Carlough Goetschius and Steve Goetschius, stand with sister-in-law Mabel while Kate and George Goetschius (Steve’s parents) kneel with their two granddaughters Ann and Dorothy around 1918. The photo was taken just in front of the SE corner of the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597629516311-4GHBLNABPA6LOTMLIQHS/GoetschiusFamily.jpg Goetschius House History Pictured above are Kate and George Goetschius with their three sons and spouses. From left to right are Dave Goetschius, Mable Cortright, Steve Goetschius, Lizzie Carlough, George Goetschius, Kate Fisher, William E. Goetschius and Georgianna Burtis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597266582742-JOCKNLGH5OYPKMGHL0TV/Goetschius+House+c+1915+pond.jpg Goetschius House History The image above dates to about 1915 and shows the pond on the opposite corner and the property going north. The pond is long gone. The barns in the distance may have belonged to the Filer family. Almost indistinguishable in the photo is a man sitting on the ground against the corner of the Goetschius house, who we believe was Steve. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597423454603-7K4Y70BVZLBGMR1LZZ8T/OutKitchen.JPG Goetschius House History - out kitchen in 1962 prior to restoration Before restoration began, the beehive oven had collapsed, the roof was in disrepair, chimney masonry needed work and some of the wood was rotting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615521868611-MS4NOWD2YLLR0WLDKQG6/GoetschiusOutKitchen_JaneLinter_1988.jpeg Goetschius House History - OUt kitchen in 1988 This photo, taken by Jane Linter in 1988 shows the condition of the stone prior to restoration. It was featured in The Saddle River Valley Heritage Calendar in 1988. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600194114476-EGT17QCVJ787DR9WLYPO/IMG_3079.JPG Goetschius House History Visible here among the plantings is the restored beehive oven on the Out Kitchen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598572982886-Q376YCDHYO0XTXW8JIR9/Holly%2Bhocks%2B%26%2Bouthouse.png Goetschius House History The outhouse before and after restoration, planted with holly hocks. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597353264710-3G8ZC10XMAL3V29ZPF0O/Barns.jpg Goetschius House History This view shows the extant outhouse and three of the barns that are no longer standing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598572487505-MW76DA29WWAMEGSX3MAE/LostBarn.png Goetschius House History A color view of one of the barns that was demolished also seen to the left of the outhouse in the above photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597359982947-54X4K8I3DQE9D6621F73/Goetschius-Filer+tenant+.jpg Goetschius House History This image is from a slide taken by Claire Tholl in the 1960s. The house is no longer red and is hidden by trees, so it represents the clearest visual of the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597267554360-FH2ORE0QD7L9DAA3FAJH/6-40+Van+Riper-Tice+barn+weathered.jpg Goetschius House History The barn after being reassembled at the Hopper-Goetschius House Museum and weathered from exposure to the elements. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597359752979-ZM6AR5SXK3NCGJ36J06C/Wulster+barn.jpg Goetschius House History The Van Riper-Tice Barn when it was still on the Wulster property before dismantling and reconstruction in its original Dutch barn form. Pictured are Gregg Huber, Bill Yeomans and Bob Terry. Photo by Carmine Galasso of The Record. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598573102998-4N7UETCO03U7WBL0OISV/Barn%2BReconstruction.png Goetschius House History Above shows the barn raising. It was quite a project! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597361444982-LE3TD3RF24N6V8MTXOI4/CurrentBarn.png Goetschius House History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597353825214-GRX2MN0PH2518GRUVTU1/Woodshed.jpg Goetschius House History The wood shed before it was dismantled and moved to the Hopper-Goetschius House Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598573193023-PZ47B5LUUIK7ZW3Z3LZ2/WoodShedCombo.png Goetschius House History The wood shed after being moved and restored. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597180876720-XVX3KEPVBED4M6IJVGXU/SayreHouse.jpg Goetschius House History The Ramsey Sayer House as it stood near the boarder of Ramsey. The house was carefully reconstructed on the property of the Hopper-Goetschius House Museum and serves as our schoolhouse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598572347023-X7IKGW4J3S0IMVUR1110/IMG_7271+copy.png Goetschius House History - An artifact from the house This late 19th century advertisement for a clothing store chain was found in the Ramsey-Sayer house when it was being prepared for the move. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600194344035-YPJ6K8DBZN8SK2OXQWAA/IMG_7283.jpg Goetschius House History The fully restored Ramsey-Sayer house on the property of the Museum in 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598573254755-7Y4S549PHTRPJ1K4MR0N/shed_Combo.png Goetschius House History At right Gaspar Lesznik demonstrates blacksmithing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598573502696-HPLF66T6DT2YNTM7EUMX/Lizzie%2Bw%2Bhistoric%2Bpeony+copy.png Goetschius House History - Lizzie goetschius Lizzie is seen here with peonies that were planted by her mother-in-law, Kate Fisher Goetschius. Lizzie kept them blooming for decades. This photo dates to the 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597367340230-YFGB6PS3LBU2JYP7JV85/1+pg-HG+house+for+page+1.jpg Goetschius House History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597360454284-UA47GY4MNXHW1MI4GGKC/butterfly-garden-bench-tractor.jpg Goetschius House History - memorial bench The Historical Society received many donations in memory of Harry Marson, a member of our Garden Committee. The committee, headed by Joanne Lombardo, put in a stone bench and butterfly garden. Carefully researched plants were ordered from across the country. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597360552478-P7OOW239XCWJYZUJO9LW/butterfly-s-nose-428x339.jpg Goetschius House History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597360552700-2RUHS8R0QZCKJCZF2SRZ/fence_2.jpg Goetschius House History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597360552776-YGKOE9NVPBPYT413OYFJ/monarch-barn-454x322_orig.jpg Goetschius House History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597628360522-7XUG39C99WGB7N7G1HYD/Screen+Shot+2020-08-16+at+9.39.05+PM.png Goetschius House History https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597628370101-RC2DFRDRSSQ6JJ3Z5B7L/Screen+Shot+2020-08-16+at+9.38.56+PM.png Goetschius House History https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/houses daily 0.75 2025-05-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597176819423-9O0BK288T6EBZXFZI4FB/House_Updated.jpg Historic Houses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1614657183004-NLNCHR20SWU6IS8V4JQP/VanRiperHennion.jpg Historic Houses The Van Riper-Hennion house as it appeared in 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597111099664-4167Y363U2VGQ03110Q4/Hennion+outkitchen+straightened.jpg Historic Houses This photo c.1940 of the Van Riper-Hennion House on Pleasant Avenue shows the out kitchen on the left. Next to it is the mid-18th century stone house with two doors. The dormers were put in later as was the extended roofline to form a porch. The Victorian house attached to the side of the stone house was built by the Hennions c. 1860. Jim Hennion is in front, holding a rabbit he had just shot. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597176582552-IM0B94N370JXRD79AAWL/15.+Hennion+family+by+house2+copy.jpg Historic Houses - Hennion Family Seated outside their home on Pleasant avenue The Hennion family is pictured c. 1900 in front of the 18th century stone house purchased by Andrew Hennion in 1857, with the 1880 addition rising in the back. Sitting in the center are Ella Brundage and Andrew’s son, James Hennion. Their daughter Kate is to Ella’s left and a cousin, Ida Hennion from Paterson is to James’ right. Standing are children John and Jenny with a fourth child Martin sitting in front. Martin served in World War I. John, who married Lucy Bowen and lived on Lake Street, was the father of Jim and Pete Hennion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597371341080-XC5OYK61A52QWNJXI6XU/Hennion+driveway.JPG Historic Houses This image was taken about 1890 showing the long driveway onto the Hennion property from Pleasant Avenue. A horse and carriage is headed toward us. A well is visible at left. This property is one of Upper Saddle River’s largest to this day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597525046824-FDIOQCWQ3APA4QY7KKAD/Screen+Shot+2020-08-15+at+4.57.03+PM.png Historic Houses - Current view The house was enlarged significantly in 2006, but the original stone and late Victorian portions still remain, along with the stone well, as seen here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597526345718-EJOJFDL7GVCJ41EKPCS4/TERHUNE-HOPPER_HOUSE%2C_UPPER_SADDLE_RIVER%2C_BERGEN_COUNTY.jpg Historic Houses The Terhune-Hopper house is a noticeable landmark in Upper Saddle River. This photo was taken in 2015 after a thorough restoration by the current owners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597264466269-VF7ZCNGWSM08U0PS8OSE/Terhune-Hopper+House.jpg Historic Houses - Terhune-hopper house around 1960 Above is the Terhune-Hopper house before the large pine trees came down and the barn (visible at right) was demolished. The land has been developed into a number of large homes, but the main house remains nearly the same. The red stuccho was added about 1915. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597264689899-OPL7TNEMLDJ8M9549O16/Wood-Taylor+house+back.jpg Historic Houses This image depicts the rear of the Terhune-Hopper house around 1920. The photo was taken by Reeves Wood, who lived there with his parents and siblings beginning in 1915. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597523694926-RBB2TEJ2RIOWF08QEMVL/TerhuneHopper.png Historic Houses - terhune-hopper house in 2020 This photo, taken by Brad Dickson of the New York Times, shows virtually the same angle as the above image. Adjacent to the well was an underground root cellar where food was stored for summer months. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599687862943-TPUKBZGP8WNPHUG5ODHG/Nicausie+Hopper+home.jpg Historic Houses This is likely the earliest known photo of the Nicausie Hopper house with members of the Hopper family in front. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599533378709-KIJYVMF5YJXEG45KLPKU/Nicausie%2BHopper%2BHouse.jpg Historic Houses The Nicausie Hopper house in the 1920s. The central portion is the stone two-door pre-Revolutionary house. An old wing to the south of it was turned into a porch and an addition was added to the north side in the 1800s. Today there is a larger addition on the north side, but the historic sandstone has been preserved. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597522925579-BAW49WZ3NREWT3VCF8M9/6-7b+Hopper-Lack-sheep+farm.jpg Historic Houses - Nicausie hopper house in the 1950 This image is the only remaining photo of the Nicausie Hopper farm, which consumed all of what is now Hopper Farm Road. The Lack family owned it at this time and it became known as sheep meadow. The barns to the right are no longer extant, nor are the cute sheep grazing in the foreground. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600009947974-T8OFRAQQR8ACZ4MMYIUI/IMG_3086.JPG Historic Houses Looking north at the primary facade. Photo taken in 2020. The roofline was modified to connect the two structures. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1614656659724-ZK2MJBRHRIEAQUMLNF74/6-10+Terhune-Ramsey2.jpg Historic Houses - Looking NORTHEAST The nearly individual house was connected to the larger structure in the 1950s. It may have served as an out kitchen, or it’s possible it was actually two slave dwellings built side-by-side. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598670454371-M90FJ2MNZB3MST4ZNU0N/TerhuneTenantHouse.png Historic Houses - view from the property The home has several extensions that are not immediately noticeable from the road. This drawing, by Justin van Deursen, depicts the house from the back of the property looking toward Fawn Hill Road circa 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1614447183665-F3YROUZYBHOE8DZRKW2K/TerhuneRamseyHouse.jpeg Historic Houses - Painting by Bird Spencer newman This oil painting was done by artist, B. Spencer Newman (1895-1969) and was gifted to the Rasmussen family, who owned the home around WWII. The barn, visible north of the house was demolished by the 1960s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599532998609-N9T3Q9N5KB83431HZSUY/vanbuskirk-penner.jpg Historic Houses This image is taken from a slide from the 1960s. The house is much the same today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597251322300-UZAYAZ8GO9ZAV5S0YOTZ/Van+Buskirk-Penner+house.jpg Historic Houses The Van Buskirk-Penner house today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597264839350-ADOWLH5KW42F169APXLN/6-9+Van+Buskirk-Penners+stonework_2.jpg Historic Houses - sandstone masonry Only a sliver of the original cut sandstone walls can be seen from the back of the house, but it provides a lot of information on the age and construction of the home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599681170402-UTRRBFE0BJJGSMEDTGGN/State+Line+Inn+postcard.jpg Historic Houses This postcard view is from the early 1930s, showing the home when it was the State Line Homestead Inn. The rustic fence made of natural sticks and logs was likely installed in the late Victorian era when the “return to nature” craze formed as a push-back to the Industrial Revolution. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599706740184-OM8UBV28LJV3VR3I1Q6J/Terhune-Bindschaedler.png Historic Houses John H. Terhune house, shown here, built about 1810. Walter Bindschaedler lived there from 1916 until the early 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600010086303-MDL7LDCVM9VJQ3ZE37MJ/IMG_3075.JPG Historic Houses - Early 20th century This photo was taken when the Bindschaedler family lived here. You can see it has changed very little, but the pronounced frieze across the top was removed, leaving only the eyebrow windows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597250505682-UT9MWTV5X7MHOH6CPHI4/bush-litchult-vanriper-house.jpg Historic Houses Visible in this image is the transom and side-lighted window in Greek Revival style and the original well near the road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598670797683-ZAQ3GJIS5L2RG9YYHEVN/Bush-Snyder_beehive.png Historic Houses During construction of an extension to the south side of the house the owners discovered the remains of a beehive oven in the masonry wall. Photos above show the discovery before it was removed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1b88a683-8168-4949-b489-dc07c9fee342/AdrianSnyderHouse.png Historic Houses - Make it stand out This photo was included in the Bergen County Historic Sites Survey in 1984, but dates to sometime considerably earlier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/2daa7ad8-0729-4919-8eef-a676eb738eb7/BettySnyder_JosephineFilipSnyder_1955.jpg Historic Houses - Make it stand out Betty Snyder with her mother, Josephine Filip Snyder outside the home in 1955. This photo was provided by Betty Snyder Myers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/6c17d010-b9fe-4361-a043-3a4927885431/PeggySnyderMitchell_BettySnyderMitchell_1944.jpg Historic Houses - Make it stand out Peggy Snyder Mitchell and Betty Snyder Myers on the stoop of the house in 1944. This photo was provided by Betty Snyder Myers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/bd2dd7f6-f7f6-4d76-83ee-7f1ab378fa13/AdrianSnyderGreenhouse.jpg Historic Houses - Make it stand out The Snyder’s green house and “cold frames” were roughly where Cherry Lane later was extended west. They help indicate how big a farm it was. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597250662836-JNORHY8FGNHGQBR3DYVV/DeBaunHouse.jpg Historic Houses The John DeBaun house on West Saddle River Road was built about 1820. The photo above was taken by William H. Felton around the 1940s. He mailed photos from Tampa, FL in the 1970s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1612738148698-QSNGXPJDKGIYACBTGG10/NHenionHouse.jpg Historic Houses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597251239160-RRLC3FMLTFM8AVX4NLH4/james-debaun-parker.jpg Historic Houses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597266310311-LTPO4VIVLGQLTCCCT76S/DeBaun-Parker.jpg Historic Houses - James debaun house around 1960 The house was red and had a portico at the time this slide image was taken in the 1960s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619653354088-2I8CJ2JGUTYGLQCJIAGE/DeBaun_Overhead_1950.jpg Historic Houses This aerial photo was taken from a small propeller plane around 1950. It shows the farmhouse, but also the land the extended behind it and the barns that are no longer extant. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1602895965286-WLCI0N1NKYT3NLXOMDEW/GrandpaGrandmaCarloughAuntAnnieUncleJohn.jpg Historic Houses This is the oldest known photograph of the house and likely dates to 1894. Left to right, Annie Forshee Carlough b.1860 and husband John G. Carlough b.1854, David J. Carlough, b. 1813-1906 and his wife Maria May Carlough, 1817-1895. Children include John Weaver Carlough, b. 1890, John George, b. 1883, (Baby) Jessie Ruth, b. 1892 and at far right, Ruth Maria May, b. 1881. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597370278945-MQHAT5GE13B36G9VEJCY/john+carlough+family.jpg Historic Houses - John g. carlough’s family c. 1899 This photo was taken in front of the David J. Carlough house. A secondary entrance has been replaced by a window and the portico removed. Left to right are George, Maria May, Ruth, John G. holding baby Atley, Annie Forshee Carlough and Weaver Carlough. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615680877015-ZE4U6BUOQYF0AWPO6V3F/CarloughHouse.jpeg Historic Houses - Carlough house c. 1910 Sometime between about 1900 and 1910 the Carlough rebuilt the front porch in a Craftsman style with local fieldstone. The porch was later removed along with the side door. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615860317100-BQO82MOWB5WH8HPEIGL8/Lyra_CarloughHouse_LakeStreet.jpg Historic Houses - John G. Carlough house This photo was also taken around 1910, showing the now removed front porch. The image was provided by Lyra Aupperlee, a descendent of the Carlough family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597265266358-Z41W4AG2ZE1IA60PJ1IP/CarloughHouse.jpg Historic Houses The Carlough house as it appears today with a chimney added on the left wing in more recent years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597366115651-V5JR6NGB56PN8DIZNHY7/John+Post+mill-Hillside.jpg Historic Houses The former Post Mill and later Duffy’s Distillery is now a private home. The mill pond is still in existence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599680686272-6LOPW2ZH1TFV075HHLUJ/Mill-Hillside+Ave.jpg Historic Houses - 1937 view This postcard image shows the street-facing side of the house in 1937, shortly after it was converted from a mill to a residence. This was a postcard image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615681370719-MFX1KTQIDJJEVIH11X84/DuffysDistillery.jpeg Historic Houses This image shows the mill after it was converted to a home, but before the large addition was added to the front facade (seen above). It was probably taken in the 1940s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/d0f770d3-496d-46f0-92d9-829455203c4b/JohnPostHouse.jpg Historic Houses - Make it stand out This was John Post, the miller’s house. It has been modified considerably since this photo was taken, which was included in the Bergen County Historic Sites Survey in 1984, but dates to sometime prior to that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597265450683-PLUVP53Q3TW6E6PY5YNZ/DeBaunHouse.jpg Historic Houses Above is a 19th century photo labeled “Mammas Home” depicting the Edward DeBaun house. It was found in an album in Alan Johnstone’s house on West Saddle River Road. Mamma was Alan’s grandmother, Elizabeth DeBaun Terhune (b. 1863), the mother of Ethel Terhune (Alan’s mother). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1601692179642-IL9TGFS5364E0BYRU5KZ/ScottFamily.png Historic Houses - Scott family This photo was taken in August, 1909 on the steps of their home. Included in the photo are George Scott, his wife Marie Maurer, their daughter Georgette and below them is Marie’s daughter Mamie, her husband Herbert Hindes and their daughter Evelyn. Take note of the victrola horn (and dog) to the left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1601693453976-JRTWGQH6DW5CDBFLC3RD/GeorgeCScott1.png Historic Houses Late 19th Century cabinet photo of George Scott, taken in Paterson where they also owned a home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599007706619-CYHFHODYPHX6SLO1U425/Herman+T+Hopper+house+from+O%27Brian.jpg Historic Houses A circa 1920 image of the Herman T. Hopper house showing its original Victorian porch, window surrounds, shudders and decorative detailing in the eaves. The house also had a curving driveway that is no longer there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597585458687-G1XTO07WTZLHJ9MOTI01/HermanHopperHouse.png Historic Houses The Herman T. Hopper house as it looks today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597264306127-RGLMREXH77WBUCSBKP78/HermanHopper.jpg Historic Houses - Herman t. hopper on his side porch The porch has been filled in and the Victorian embellishments removed from the home, but the main structure is the same. This photo was taken by Reeves Wood, who lived across the street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599007818137-WCB2P0PLGH9U74MT4DMU/Hopper-Woll-House.jpg Historic Houses Amazingly, the image above and below depict the same house in very different states of redesign. The image above shows the Hopper family outside their home when it was a Gothic revival, wood-frame house. This image depicts Garret J. Hopper and his wife Rachel Ann Hopper in the center. Their son, Jacob Henry, is to the left holding the horse. Their daughter Mary Christina (who lived in the Queen Anne) is on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597254712092-GVGDLK0L6EM5P7PKXHJN/Hopper-Woll.JPG Historic Houses https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597695553730-LDO05FMEF09P58DOKZQ9/MatthewWoll.png Historic Houses - Matthew woll Matthew and his wife, Celeonor, were responsible for the total restyling of the house https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597109209446-AFE9EOFO29QJFCXZYAE2/Depuy-Newman+House.jpg Historic Houses The inscription by Bob DePuy on the photo of A.W. Demarest House on East Saddle River Road reads “as it was when we bought on November 15, 1919.” Claire Tholl said “it is one of Bergen County’s outstanding houses in the Queen Anne style.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599533232234-561PG2T9KZYNPIVCTZYG/Maria%2BChristina%2BHopper-Demarest_AWDemarest.jpg Historic Houses - The demarests circa 1880 Mary Christina Hopper and her husband, Abraham Wesley Demarest when they married in 1880. Mary’s father constructed the house for her as a wedding present. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1614455816519-TTUII6NKPLT2045KD54P/QueeneAnne.jpg Historic Houses The house as it appeared in 2021. It hasn’t changed much and is very well cared for by its current owners. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599533322698-5BLL8PHA3ZTWW9MVPTBO/Parsonage.jpg Historic Houses This image is from a slide taken by Claire Tholl in the 1960s. The house has changed very little. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597549213498-R48NO57HZO2N36VOTGM8/Parsonage_2020.png Historic Houses - Parsonage in 2020 Only the paint color has changed. The original well can be seen to the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599533273396-AATZSA9AF4O96QYZ2T3R/5-27%2BHH%2BPropety%2Bearly%2Bview%2Btracy%2B7.75.jpg Historic Houses This image shows a hand-colored black and white photo of the Harry Himsel Ranch when it was relatively new. The house still stands and the horse head stone is still on the chimney. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598721576934-3F9GS5OUU3ARY9NV76EJ/Once+in+USR+12x16-2.jpg Historic Houses A watercolor painting by Bill Yeomans of some of Upper Saddle River’s lost structures. It is titled, “Once in Upper Saddle River” and a print can be purchased in our shop. https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/families daily 0.75 2022-05-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597367189765-H8EEKWZDIYC92NUBOTXT/School-Ralph+Carrie+Herb+Clarence+Ed+Walter+Martha+ca+1910-11.jpg Early Families https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597108818278-8IT1PBM9O06YYTW0LM7S/Nicausie+Hopper+Homestead.jpg Early Families Above is the Nicausie Hopper homestead circa 1890 on what is now Hopper Farm Road. Pictured in front in the Union cap are Nicausie’s grandson, John A. Hopper, b. 1828 and his wife Maria Tallman at the far right. Their two children, Hannah and Tunis, are sitting with their grandmother. Holding the horses is Nicholas Sutton, an African American who worked on the farm. According to family history, while he did not serve in the Union army, John A. Hopper was a great horseman and rode north to Canada to procure horses for the Union Army. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597267355513-JRS7KE0W5UAHMR8S0L2K/Garret+J._RachelAnnAckermanHopper.jpg Early Families Above is Garret J. Hopper (1821-1894) and his wife, Rachel Ann Ackerman Hopper (1829-1922) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598413915820-LI28SISCZLCDFDXNQG3Q/Plate.png Early Families - Slipware plate belonging to the debaun family This plate was given to Anne Yeomans by the Debaun family. It likely dates to around 1800. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597110005998-G6GAGS3VH8VJ210N7RG1/Terhune%2C+Edgar+family.jpg Early Families The above photo taken c. 1910 at 409 West Saddle River Road shows Ethel Terhune, her brother-in-law James A. Duryea and her sister Bertha standing. Seated are Edgar M. Terhune and Elizabeth DeBaun Terhune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598413969393-7XVO7TL3BXYGZ6CMHGAK/GoetschiusTintypes.png Early Families This tintype pictures Stephen J. Goetschius, 1820-1893, with his brother John Henry Goetschius, born in 1839, and John Henry’s wife Deborah. They had a farm in Ramapo, NY. At right is a tintype of Stephen J. Goetschius’ wife Maria Eckerson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597267900488-7N4FHDERG0L50VWBCKZJ/George+%26+Kate.jpg Early Families George Goetschius and Kate Fisher Goetschius lived in the Goetschius House (Museum). They were married in 1880. They were Steve's parents. After Steve and Lizzie were married, they shared the Hopper-Goetschius house with George and Kate. This Photo was taken about 1890 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597117521981-J34AMSJI3CEY4GPN0GNR/Goetschius+family+picnic.jpg Early Families Kate Fisher Goetschius held a family reunion on the lawn beside the outkitchen around 1950. Kate’s granddaughter, Dorothy Dunn is front left with her son on her lap and her brother William B. to her right. Kate is on the far right right with her sisters sitting behind her. Steve Goetschius is in the back center. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597110657409-ZJBJOZHVNW9VO81EWWLD/Post-Margaret_Henry+Hall+Goet.jpg Early Families In 1859 Anna Maria Post, the daughter of Henry Pohlman Post, married Henry Hall Goetschius, b. 1838, the son of John Zabriskie Goetschius, a nephew of the Rev. Stephen Goetschius. Henry was living with his brother Louis DuBois Goetschius on Sparrowbush Road. The Post house was on corner of Sparrowbush and the West Road. Henry Pohlman Post gave them the property across from his mill on which to build. The house is still there on the SE corner of Old Stone Church Road and the West Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597268567932-LIWL27UIK8VML4LWBIFH/Hennion-Andrew+with+oxen.jpg Early Families Andrew Hennion with oxen on his property on Pleasant Avenue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598414045739-XI9I312Z50X7V58BF8MX/DJCarlough%2Bw-Judson%2B%26%2BAmelia.png Early Families D.J. Carlough and his wife Maria May, seated, came to Upper Saddle River in 1838. Standing above them in this c.1883 photo are daughter Margaret Jane with husband Samuel B. Hopper on the left and daughter Maria Amelia with husband Judson Young on the right. Amelia’s daughter Daisy May Young is standing at right and Margaret’s daughter Irene is the baby. Daisy May and Lizzie Carlough Goetschius were good friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597268390803-QLEA8CGJ3XNTY7LUN5JE/James+D+family.jpg Early Families James D. Carlough was the oldest of David J. Carlough’s sons. He farmed the land that became Apple Ridge Country Club and was elected Upper Saddle River’s first mayor. He must have been a natural leader. He was elected to numerous positions in the grange, including president of the Bergen County Pomona Grange. He and his wife Dorcas Courter are seated with their family, standing from left to right, Dora, David J., Ezra, Arthur, Annabelle, and Theresa. Standing next to Dorcas is his youngest, Lizzie May, who married Steve Goetschius. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597268459137-9KYUNUBVOEOTZKACUENL/yeomans+family.jpg Early Families Hopper and Sophie Yeomans posed with their two boys and wives in 1903. In back, left to right, are Anna Helms and William H. Yeomans, b. 1884, and John Yeomans, b. 1883 and his wife Lillian Mather. Hopper’s horse hames, to which traces are attached, is shown above. https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/farming-industry daily 0.75 2020-08-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597162965767-AD5S8N4W7U3PPFL0ETGC/Hay+Wagon-DeBaun-Alan+johnstone+gfathr-haying+3-10+copy.jpg Farming & Industry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597111691855-OEYC2EWQDT538TLP83OB/Hennion_cows_barn.jpg Farming & Industry The huge barn on the Andrew Hennion farm on Pleasant Avenue still exists, as does the 18th century stone house. Andrew Hennion, who purchased the farm in 1857 from Abraham Van Riper, had a dairy herd and sold the milk to Eckerson’s Dairy in Saddle River on West Saddle River Road. On the left, note the continued use of the 18th century Dutch hay barrack in the background. The roof slid up and down on poles to accommodate storage. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597365923539-68NENRAK10PVLDKX82FV/5-5c+Weiss+family+chickens_sepia.jpg Farming & Industry Chickens on the Weiss family farm on Weiss Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597111878934-81N12GT6B03UOVM4HP6Q/Sam+Kanreck+and+market+wagon.jpg Farming & Industry Sam Kanreck loading peaches on a market wagon at the Eckerson farm on Carlough Road, where he worked from 1912-1915. The Eckerson barn is no longer standing, but the farmhouse and stone well still are. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597365844086-T3BWCBP8T56DWI34FMX4/5-6+Paterson+Market+wagon+Kanreck+%26+apples_sepia.jpg Farming & Industry Above is Sam Kanreck on the Carlough apple farm loading a market wagon, perhaps made by Packer in Saddle River, as many local market wagons were. Sam worked for the Carlough family from 1915 until his retirement. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597112148135-E8W90291HNYKUCO2OIGJ/John+Kroner.jpg Farming & Industry John Kroner’s family sold their bakery in New York City in 1905 and bought a farm on West Saddle River Road just north of the little Methodist Church on the hill. They began farming strawberries, a profession John, shown above, followed until the 1980s. It was the last strawberry farm in Upper Saddle River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598577702250-PZLY4B5BLYY6G1IYFUU8/Basket.png Farming & Industry - Strawberry basket This is an example of one of the home-made strawberry baskets assembled by the thousands by farmers and their families in the evenings. This one is from the Terhune-Hopper farm and was found in the house in the 1990s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598579282235-G45R6SI5ZHNGIR01EEUX/Carlough+truck+c.1918.png Farming & Industry Loading apples onto a truck at the Carlough farm in 1918. Sam Kanreck is in the center. Nettie Carlough is on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598575520731-KIRUGJYQPGKOY27NJMUG/CarloughLabel.jpg Farming & Industry - Apple crate label A label from one of the shipping crates on the Carlough family’s farm on Carlough Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598575857063-07947G5TW2OUAYQZ770F/The_Record_Tue__Feb_15__1966_.jpg Farming & Industry - Apple packers ad David J. Carlough ran ads for help on their extensive farm https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/oral-histories daily 0.75 2021-08-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597546821870-LJ2B957ZSX69PEUDEMFL/staimed+glass+side_banner.jpg Oral Histories https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597546600171-4TVMPCZI5T8X1Q22EZ11/John+Kroner%2Cbessie+barret%2Cgodfrey+van+kampen-color.jpg Oral Histories - Godfrey Van Kampen, Bessie barrett and john kroner Three of Upper Saddle River’s early residents who took an interest in history and shared their memories with us were photographed together in 1982. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1630285395521-1QTXQBWGL5831BRUNFJ0/CorneliusBerdan_Aug_31_1977_.jpg Oral Histories - Make it stand out Cornelius Berdan in August, 1977, as he appeared in the Shopper News, Paramus, NJ, for an article about his artifact collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1630276866594-4O2VIADU78L6HZRDJ4GP/FrederickKroner.png Oral Histories - Make it stand out John’s father, Frederick Kroner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1630276821145-Y0U0NLHIQSKU9ZRO4FW2/LouisaKrohKroner.png Oral Histories - Make it stand out John Kroner’s mother, Louisa Kroh Kroner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1630276610329-RW53TBNP17QOSDY4MEXS/5-8+John+Kroner+copy.jpg Oral Histories - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1630276692305-5TYACKMUXNFHBM6OJD19/JohnKroner_Age8.png Oral Histories - Make it stand out John Kroner, age 8 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1630274714661-T1A5W94APVCK9NDLQ0PU/EdnaFredFiler.png Oral Histories - Make it stand out Fred and Edna Filer in their yard in Upper Saddle River https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1630276171274-KQCP60CZ8ULG8ZK2WN51/FredFilerTractorAtGardiners.jpg Oral Histories - Make it stand out John Frederick “Fred” Filer on a Fordson tractor at the Gardiner farm, 1923 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1630277238390-AP6Z0DII7VFFWOH4EGXA/USR+-+Walter+Weiss+ca+1904.jpg Oral Histories - Make it stand out Walter Weiss c. 1904 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1630277568359-YJWAVY8OCFNWBA930U2P/Harriet%26Walter+Weiss-shore.jpg Oral Histories - Make it stand out Walter and Harrier Weiss at the beach https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1630277405958-J4GDRDE7FGNKMV0WP9PY/WeissFarmhouse.jpg Oral Histories - Make it stand out The Weiss farmhouse on Weiss Road https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599682943618-SH0M831EHZKL1CA8XLIR/Hist+-+Lizzie+%26+Edna+Filer_Redo.png Oral Histories - Lizzie goetschius with edna filer This photo was taken in Lizzie’s yard in the 1950s. Lizzie and Edna were close friends. https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/board daily 0.75 2025-03-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597116189949-F88DARW37S3ZF6TBAIWA/6-52+Goetschius+barns-7+people.jpg Board of Trustees https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/hours-location daily 0.75 2023-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597176397767-81047QWBUFE8G6FWZSBV/Aerial+view+Elmer%27s2_lighter.jpg Hours and Location https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597117317846-OTP01IU4ARLAHNECYW0Z/Goetschius+Family_watermelon.jpg Hours and Location Seen here enjoying watermelon in the yard are; Mrs. Pewtner, Kate Goetschius, George Goetschius, Lizzie Goetschius, Steve Goetschius, Mr. Pewtner; Sitting is Minnie Herring, her two children, Steve’s brother Dave Goetschius and Elmer Herring, who was a good friend of Steve. Elmer won a horseshoe tossing trophy at Anona. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598575775069-QY7IMWYN6N31WT0HCGCF/Goetschius+-+Desk.jpg Hours and Location Steve Goetschius’ office at the Hopper-Goetschius House Museum. https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/membership daily 0.75 2020-09-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597167416366-8GDEN97LN2N75MTXPMBK/4+Capuanos-Lake+Rd+paved1.jpg Membership https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/hh-ranch daily 0.75 2021-04-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597431498059-HFYLVRAHJ9GDDXK57CTM/HHRanch_Banner.png HH Ranch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597430739181-LHPWJ0F7H9T77JV7P474/GardinerPlace_1941.png HH Ranch - Gardiner/Goertner Property Some of the many Lenape Indian artifacts found by Cornelius Berdan on his farm property where the current Emil A. Cavallini Middle School stands today. They were donated to the Upper Saddle River Historical Society in 1978. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597431098052-DH9QXS1MOCXEIXU2J3WA/HarryMargaret_1949.jpg HH Ranch Postcard of Margaret & Harry in buggy pulled by 'Pride' - Fall 1949. The stables in the background were part of the original home of Francis Gardiner/Goertner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1616365018454-805VP4YUSCTV0HTUZ2VF/HarryHimsel.JPG HH Ranch - HARRY HIMSEL This wonderful hand-tinted photo was found in the collection of the Upper Saddle River Historical Society. It probably dates to the 1920s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597431200681-NIQVG2SV7ID0TFKH4UCF/DoubleHRanch_Sept1949.png HH Ranch Front view of the Double H Ranch house - September 1949 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597431366269-83CFXXEQ3K7OWHNAAXO8/EdEwald_Harry.jpg HH Ranch Harry Himsel & Ed Ewald (center/right) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597431038314-KKACLHJQXA1RJLU0GFTP/Harry_Margaret_1950.jpg HH Ranch Colorized photo of Harry, his wife Margaret (left in the covered wagon) & others circa 1950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597431598573-675HGX8ZZYCKLPHJZ1MF/Ranch1.jpg HH Ranch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597431623433-MHCJXAUZQUNXKHPANPPU/Ranch2.jpg HH Ranch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597431651298-MHS8YY4DJ8800GO8JX6C/Stables.jpg HH Ranch Color photo by the stables, which were part of the original home of Francis Gardiner/Goertner that was significantly altered to build the ranch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597431711049-BHXW5D26WT7RDQZG6UAP/Ranch3.jpg HH Ranch Sheriff Bob Dixon was a highlight attraction at the Ranch. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597431753322-32K210IOD1H3MBL5TA8N/Ranch4.jpg HH Ranch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597430624823-1OKWW0DSFM4NDBYKEFLI/HHRanch.jpg HH Ranch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597431892305-NXNWKQ4XWX05Q3X2IZSQ/Ticket.jpg HH Ranch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597431923284-0Y7ZELJ7ZURXEDLJ6NBS/RodeoAd.jpg HH Ranch - Sheriff bob dixon Rodeos were advertised in local papers and attracted large crowds. A highlight was when Sheriff Bob Dixon made an appearance. https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/donations daily 0.75 2020-08-26 https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/maps daily 0.75 2023-08-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597627667863-F7S3CKUZV1SJWMGKEFXL/Screen+Shot+2020-08-16+at+9.25.04+PM.png Maps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597589254818-V1NK7FDTU0U5UF88D5XS/1861.jpg Maps Griffith Morgan Hopkins, Jr. "Map of the Counties of Bergen and Passaic, New Jersey: From Actual Surveys" (Philadelphia: G. H. Corey, Publisher, 1861) [Library of Congress]. This was a large-scale wall map, with ornamental border and added color, 139 × 113 cm. Scale: 1 mile to 1.5 inches. At the time this map was produced Bergen County was made up of nine townships, colored blue, yellow, green, or pink: Franklin, Hackensack, Harrington, Hohokus, Lodi, New Barbadoes, Saddle River, Union, and Washington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597589408068-F3FFS7I80F8TMPVGAJC2/1861_Detail.jpg Maps This is a detail of the above map. The Hopper-Goetschius house is marked on the map nearly in the exact center, in the green section. The Terhune-Hopper house is just to the left in the red section after the sharp jog in the road, now called Lake Street. Hairpin Turn did not yet exist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/eb0671f9-380b-48f3-b2a2-b2111e43791d/Screen+Shot+2023-08-04+at+10.13.52+AM.png Maps - Make it stand out This Topographical Map of Bergen and Passaic Counties indicates the location of schools, saw and grist mills and also the railroad that was never constructed, labeled Saddle River Railroad. How different things would have been! The full map is in the collection of Rutgers University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597625323975-PUSJ4105UVEL7ERGEWHR/1876_West.jpg Maps This is a detail of the Atlas of Bergen County, New Jersey made from surveys of each town and village. By: A. H. Walker and published in Reading, Pa. by C. C. Pease, [1876]; Winterthur Call Number: RBR F142 B49 F, Order Number: 05L157. This was considered the first atlas of Bergen County. The volume contains maps of all continents, the U.S., and New Jersey as well as information about the county, towns and villages, with listing of county officers and a table of distances between county villages. The detailed work was done by George Allen Rudd (1853–1888). Its accuracy is remarkable. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598409549239-YWQU2DCH48RK2EHZ0HNT/1876MapDetail.png Maps This is a detail of the previous map showing households west of the river including those on West Saddle River Road, Union and Pleasant Avenues, Lake Street, Old Stone Church Road and Sparrowbush Road. The current town was divided onto two plates in the book. See below for the eastern portion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597589600464-G545O8GUQQYAX2RVI4U2/1876_EastofRiver.jpg Maps The orientation of this map is different, but it shows the portion of Upper Saddle River (bottom left in yellow) that extends to the east of the Saddle River. S. J. Goetschius indicates the property then owned by Steve prior to his marriage to Lizzie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597626961736-W8PLQQHUEGN55PPK7QT0/1876Detail.png Maps The eastern portion of town enlarged again. At the far left is the Van Buskirk-Penner house. To the right is Weiss Road, then the corner of Old Stone Church Road. Further to the right is the intersection of East Saddle River Road and Lake Street with “S.J. Goetschius” indicating the location of the Hopper-Goetschius house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/8af2672b-6a69-4c5b-953f-89e3e399bf29/1902Map.png Maps - Make it stand out This 1902 map included portions of Passaic County. It was published by E. Robinson & Co. Montvale Road is now Lake Street and Upper Saddle River Road is now Weiss Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597626133140-15Q8DOIG6SOOL09FIY6J/1912+Map.jpg Maps Bergen County 1912 Vol 2, New Jersey, Published by G. W. Bromley & Co. in 1912. This is a section of Plate 031, which depicted Hohokus, Franklin, and Orville Townships. The orientation has been rotated 90 degrees from the original to align better with our current understanding. The Goetschius property is shown with 3 markings - perhaps including the out kitchen and barn. Mayor Herman T. Hopper owned the two houses on the corner of Lake Street and West Saddle River Road at the time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597627285852-SZGB3PTL7IBRNPJ738GB/1935+Map.jpg Maps This detailed property map was produced by F. D. Livermore, Borough Engineer for the town of Upper Saddle River. It dates to June, 1935. The area shown includes properties north of Lake Street and east of East Saddle River Road. The orientation is 90 degrees clockwise to our current understanding. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597625584410-IEEWGV1UL662XGT48TL4/1936+Assessment+Atlas.jpg Maps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598410516995-URHTMUWYHEZ147EDYZUV/ClaireThollMap.jpg Maps This detailed map was created in 1962 by the late Bergen County historian and Upper Saddle River resident, Claire Tholl. Claire was part of a committee who conducted the Historic House Survey. She personally visited, photographed and researched homes, deeds and maps to compile this priceless visual of the town and most of its current and also demolished homes. Visit our Shop page to order your own copy printed on parchment. https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/games daily 0.75 2020-10-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597630637152-Z05LZF8UY8WGXZ7BNTZJ/jumping+rope+at+Anona2.jpg Games & Puzzles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597630144116-NNXYR780HND80TZDWVJC/hopper-goetschius-house-crossword_orig-1.jpg Games & Puzzles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597630158152-D0SO2ESXTTW114UY2772/crossword-upper-saddle-river-road-names_orig.jpg Games & Puzzles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597630202645-A350XSREK7Q7VNQ24QJU/Horseshoes%2Bat%2BAnona.jpg Games & Puzzles - GAMES AT ANONA Men throwing horseshoes at Anona Park in the 1920s. Prizes were given for an annual horseshoe competition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598578343769-8OEPHDF2DVUR4BDKJ75D/Invit%2BPost%2BBarnDance+copy.png Games & Puzzles An invitation for a barn dance at the Post Mill on the corner of Old Stone Church Road and West Saddle River Road. Barn dances were not common in Upper Saddle River, so it must have been quite an exciting night. https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/answers daily 0.75 2020-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597630818368-0JBZTAROZ0Y7JWGBUV57/Weiss+family-summer+sprinklerbw_banner.jpg Games Answers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597630566179-VSXZ9T8FET3HR06WSIGS/screen-shot-2020-06-22-at-4-40-11-pm-2_orig.png Games Answers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597630873250-L7QI7G09R2B25J6BNLXM/crossword-answers-road-names_orig.jpg Games Answers https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/tour daily 0.75 2020-09-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1597632000671-TYRTQN40NK7NTIO8G8B1/Bind-Alice%2C+Helen+May+Cogan%2C+An+copy.jpg 360 Tour https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/volunteer daily 0.75 2020-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598480666952-Z9XTWZU5FRF0SRC2FEH7/3-1+Hennion-Andrew+with+oxen-se.jpg Volunteer https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/lost daily 0.75 2026-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598821637476-2466NS2M4HPV1NGUXDZ9/Wood-Terhune+farm+back-darker.jpg Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598724932287-WF7CIJ0DEQZDOKYH2CMR/1853+schoolhouse+taken+1885_NEW.jpg Lost USR The 1853 Greek Revival one room schoolhouse as it appeared in 1885. The teacher was George DeBaun and students identified in the photo include Henry Snyder, Dora Carlough, Abe Goetschius, Mamie Williams, Irving DeBaun, George McElroy, Theresa Carlough, Maggie DeBaun, Minnie Snyder, Jim Bush, Anna Belle Carlough, Wallace DeBaun, Florrie Williams and Ezra Carlough. Many of the names feature prominently in the town’s history. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598580197673-P7L2KAHX4IDACTLYZR7I/14.+First+Boro+Hall+sportsman.jpg Lost USR - SPORTSMAN’s CLUB Sportsman’s Club The short-lived Sportsman’s (hunting) Club met at the Borough Hall. As the town became more populated hunting became less feasible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598580169532-XB9F3ND80PKMIIBV0JHK/Ambulance_1853school.jpg Lost USR - first ambulance corp. First Ambulance Corp. The 1853 Schoolhouse was modified to remove the pillars and most of the facade. The first ambulance was a converted hearse. The newly constructed fire department is visible in the background. A second floor was added later. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598580729584-OHF1TMYCOHRCSU5UYNUL/5-21+Anona+lake-pavilion-crowds_sepia.jpg Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1616120462128-5JGEZ7QTOOK31VQ831U9/gate+house.jpg Lost USR - GATE HOUSE This gate house stood at the entrance to Anona. A chain was pulled across the entrance at night to prevent access. The structure is no longer standing. It was likely built at the start of Anona Park, in 1928. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/c37a4bc0-25d0-4f84-a478-3aaef7fa0d3d/JamesDCarloughHouse_1984.png Lost USR - Make it stand out This undated photo was included in the 1984 Bergen County Historic Sites Survey, but seems to date to much earlier that that. It is facing south (looking at the north side of the house). The covered well is visible in the center. The photo below from the 1980s shows clearly how much original detail had been stripped from the house by then. The dark shudders had been removed by the time this photo was taken. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598711891156-99V9DGYB1MFHRA4ZRMTC/carlough_clint_horsesleigh.png Lost USR These images of the south side of the house show some of the simple detailing including dentil molding, the two-tone color scheme, shudders and turned wooden scrollwork along the porch. Clint Carlough is at the left with his sleigh and horses. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598582935764-PV544BGK40ZVJFQE1BKJ/8b.+car-carlough+farms+aerial+before+golf.jpg Lost USR This view, taken in the 1940s, shows Carlough Road facing north with the homestead on the west side of the street surrounded by barns and packing facilities. The dormer window had been extended to the second floor and the porch filled in here. Note that there are no other homes on Carlough Road at this time. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600653248134-OX6Z6NIVZMPSAUMFIVGI/CarloughHouse.jpg Lost USR - Later in life The Carlough house was stripped of its detail and became a rental property in the 1970s and 80s, before it was demolished. This is facing south toward the side of the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600653209085-ZW6YX2GCI3VYSCJMXKXJ/Carlough%2Bapples%2B%2526%2Bbarn.jpg Lost USR - CARLOUGH BARN There were many barns and packing facilities on the Carlough property, most of which were demolished when the property was converted to Apple Ridge Country Club. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/5548f533-a535-4eb1-8f41-13710af3c247/Carlough+apple+barns+2.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo is from a slide taken by Claire Tholl along Carlough Road. It is the best known photo that shows the scale and depth of the barn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598580987583-U39N7JX5R3436GTK13ZP/6-51+Carlough%27s+Saddle+River+brand.jpg Lost USR This is one of a collection of barns and structures that stood on the west side of Carlough Road as you’re heading north toward Mahwah. This was the largest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598581078075-CK9LOAPN8UB1CG8NJ5SA/Aerial+view+of+apple+ridge+copy+1966.jpg Lost USR The extensive Carlough apple farm was converted to a prestigious golf club in the 1960s. This aerial view from 1966 shows the extent of the property. The original homestead and barns are on the far right along Carlough Road. Ripplewood Drive can be seen on the top right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598581190760-Z1K0FT5U2911HJWCCMRF/Golfers+under+apple+trees.JPG Lost USR - Apple ridge country club Apple Ridge has since been cleared and converted to a luxury housing development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598725037248-VQ8S8MU0B5NZ4755H6N5/Ben+Moores+store2.jpg Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598919708633-VGNM3Y6KTWPO281E3QZC/Zabriskie-Ben+Moore+house.jpg Lost USR Ben Moore shoveling snow outside his house (The Zabriskie house). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/fcb580b8-911a-4e8b-b5bf-7dce2a9025c3/Ben+Moore%27s+Pond.jpg Lost USR - Ben moore’s pond Ben dammed the river and created a pond. The photo above was likely taken in the early 1930s. The car on the right is on Upper Cross Road. The car on the left is heading sorth on West Saddle River Road. The pond has been filled in. Visible in the photo is a sign on Ben Moore’s store that says “Dairy.” He sold ice cream to the fishermen. You can also see 5 gas pumps in the center of the photo. At right, men are fishing in the pond at dawn in 1938. The photo was printed in the Bergen Record, announcing the spring trout season. “Sportsmen crowded each other to get in on the first day’s big catch.” A deputy warden (Ben Moore) would blow a whistle at the exact minute when the fishing season could commence. Of course they’d have to get a license from Steve Goetschius first. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599235613768-5MPHSBKGO3QBQMA0HNBV/BenMooresPond.png Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598581677357-XDZIWOSTD3W53UWIEQAF/Berdan+homestead+now+Cavallini.jpg Lost USR This Gothic Revival home stood where Cavallini School is now. His large barn would have stood out of the frame to the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598673894806-LJCFYPJW6ZG7FTEOULX8/kids-Berdan+hs+in+back.JPG Lost USR Bogert School kids playing with the Berdan farmhouse and barns east of them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598582038852-F5DD6GI0DP71345W0NNP/BerdanBarn.jpeg Lost USR - BERDAN BARN The barn served as a teen center and the home of the Saddle River Valley Rescue Squad in the 50s/60s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619561866873-TC1SQ8GJQTOLV9IFUMW5/Berdan+house+%26+barns.jpg Lost USR A circa 1950 aerial photo of the Berdan house and its many barns. This was taken from a small propeller airplane by a local resident. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598581894326-QEEH40POVU9ZTATLOY1Y/Berdan+barn+fall+cropped.jpg Lost USR This is a rare color image of the bucolic scene of Cornelius Berdan’s farm. The corn crib in the center was on stilts to prevent rodents from accessing it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600011868872-ORSPLMPFOUVBR90SSJ9R/BerdanFire2.JPG Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600011833787-USVATRAKN8VUBUCOS8LQ/BerdanFire.JPG Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/81fa6740-0893-4623-9424-7c75593ead16/Berdan+barn.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo is from a slide taken by Claire Tholl from the property where the town hall is now looking north. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/94d07891-c30d-44ba-80bc-36dd62378b8a/Berdan+Barn+as+Rescue+Squad.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo is from a slide taken by Claire Tholl and shows what remained of Mr. Berdan’s barns when this one was turned into the home of the USR Rescue Squad. The town hall was built to the right of it. A window which was up against the large door had been removed and a newer window added to the upper right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600653295771-JSYNQ5NKYHUIDWOS8RS9/Bindschaedler%2BHouse_Detail.jpg Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1607224297401-0MMASW5RR3AUIL9DGXDM/DutchRevivalHouses.jpg Lost USR - SEARS HOUSES At left are 1920s examples of some of the “Dutch” style homes that Sears and a competitor, Charles Lane Bowles offered in his American Modern Homes catalogue. Prices were around $2,400-$4,700 and they had names like The Amsterdam, The Van Jean and The Rembrandt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600653375046-E8HWDIOAJLY5KSEJIDLI/BindAnnaHattieWalterHatAli.jpg Lost USR - BINDSCHAEDLER FAMILY c. 1903 Members of the Bindschaedler family are seen here including Hattie Behrmann Bindschaedler (b. 1875 Switzerland) and her children: Anna (Burtis), Walter, Alice Bertha (Dewar) and Hattie Gezine (Fraser). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600653406879-E76AUMFCX750JLV18TZM/Police-first%2Bstation%2B1969.jpg Lost USR The Bindschaedler house became Upper Saddle River’s first police station. This image dates to 1969. It stood into the 1990s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/ab48c03a-ec7f-4a4e-88ef-ab38c0625991/Screen+Shot+2023-05-26+at+11.06.02+PM.png Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo was taken around 1915 by Reeves Wood, who lived in the red house just south of here. This image is looking up West Saddle River Road from Lake Street just beyond what is the wooded lot (with the town signs). The photo has been colorized. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/ef4e2eea-4578-43c9-a9f9-0093afa47f04/BindschaedlerBarns+copy.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out The barns are also visible in this photo looking north across the Wood family’s property on West Saddle River Road and Lake Street. The building with slightly angled sides was a corn crib. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/fc1790d4-d677-4cc2-91c3-f262a6259c48/1928-1930CaffreyCapuano.png Lost USR - Make it stand out A yard party of the Caffrey family alongside their bungalow circa 1928-1930. Lillian Caffrey is wearing the polka dotted dress. Lauretta, who was born in 1921, is with her sister, Mary. Photo from Amy Capuano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/818e0a11-f0d8-4bad-8475-bca3edfefaa1/CaffreyHouse.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out The Caffrey cottage, from the background of a photo provided by neighbor, Rayner Markley. This was taken during WWII. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/b199d9cf-d33f-4a5e-b45e-d42f82b63380/Caffrey+Family.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This pre-1939 photo from Amy Capuano includes Margaret Lucy Caffrey, Nicholas Richard Caffrey, Mary Frances Tiernan Caffrey, George Patrick Caffrey, Edward Francis Caffrey, Lillian Adrian Caffrey, Clarence Joseph Caffrey and May Caffrey Hession. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/e31e2412-fbc3-4087-bc12-0d976c4942e0/CaffreyBungalow_1940s.png Lost USR - Make it stand out This photos is from circa 1949/50. The bungalow can be seen in the right rear. To the far left is a well. Margaret Capuano is with her son, Jim and to the right, children Joe and Claire. Photo from Amy Capuano. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/477381a8-d90a-4ecb-8618-c3906db83f91/NicholasRichardCaffrey.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Nicholas Richard Caffrey. Photo from Amy Capuano. He appears to be standing on their property in Upper Saddle River. He died in 1939, so this photo was taken a short time before that. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/9db33ab4-0a07-4f1c-9232-24fb85aef54c/b09.png Lost USR - Make it stand out Photos taken by Amy Capuano around 2001 before the house was sold and torn down https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/61847ed2-21d0-49d5-8a8a-1a8a4864fb33/b16.png Lost USR - Make it stand out Photos taken by Amy Capuano around 2001 before the house was sold and torn down https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/d2a58e79-d3ed-4d96-bbee-88b750916680/b17.png Lost USR - Make it stand out Photos taken by Amy Capuano around 2001 before the house was sold and torn down https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/2c14535d-e7f3-4282-b71f-fd832e7c1182/b03.png Lost USR - Make it stand out Photos taken by Amy Capuano around 2001 before the house was sold and torn down https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/38a74292-0f45-4804-a7ee-71fc7456a151/3-9+first+choiceWeaver+Carlough+%2718.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo from 1918 shows the barn as Weaver Carlough was leaving for WWI. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/740f0ca4-bda4-4650-ae94-cd60118d498a/CarloughBarn.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out These photos from Google streetview show that the building was enlarged somewhat when converted to a residence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/93a5f742-86a5-4932-bb4a-73bc866673f3/Screen+Shot+2023-10-23+at+10.32.56+PM.png Lost USR - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598723075555-UP2XD51TCY20YY1BDC93/MillAllendale1905.jpg Lost USR - Christopher mill This was the first mill once they moved to Allendale. This image is circa 1905 before it burned down and came from the Allendale Historical Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598721914842-XUVNGPYP57EGIXMTJV06/Chrissawmill01.jpg Lost USR This image depicts the Christopher mill on Route 17 in Upper Saddle River, where the business was relocated to in 1933. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598717974024-FWA6YC5CQ2NHKOWTKI8V/John+Taylor+racing.png Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599528715238-B3SINJBS2J8JS5XDUV6N/ShadyLawn1.jpg Lost USR These images are from the only known postcard of Shady Lawn, a recreation spot for city dwellers to escape to for the day. It was likely taken in the 1930s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599528726530-2FYGH63JZ9AJP6NT4FB3/ShadyLawn2.jpg Lost USR “Bathing…fishing…hunting…games” “Enjoy our special $1.00 dinner and be our guest for the day.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/cdacfcb5-2e5a-4fa2-b81f-7dc3818187ef/Creative-ShadyLawn-Meshirer_narrow.jpg Lost USR This image from the 1940s was taken while the home was owned by the Meshirer family. The three people visible in the porte-cochère are unidentified. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/62fb1707-fe17-4dde-84fc-c1caaca2cd5f/DavidFrankMeshirer.jpg Lost USR - DAVID AND FRANK MESHIRER Photo likely from the 1940s, located on ancestry.com https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598919426078-LQHNC4M1GA6AEL1J2DQB/11+Creative+Gardens+-+1940s.jpg Lost USR The Hopper-Ackerman house in snow, taken in the 1940s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/b30493ae-d811-4c4c-b689-05373e4ea4af/Creative+6.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Interior photos before demolition, courtesy of Kay Yeomans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/be4a6ae6-2de8-447f-91b5-23f4df3841b0/Creative+3.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out The leaded glass windows indicate that this was a rather special home for a rural, farming community. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598919149846-6Q0BYOL8YVQZI0VFNG4W/Creative+Gardens.jpg Lost USR This image is from about 1970. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599528820200-HBDXE4KX5VA78FUHRMHV/Barn.png Lost USR This image was reproduced in 1979 (but likely dates to much earlier than that) in the Orvil Oracle, a “historical supplement” to The Town Journal, showing the transformation from the barn to the garden shop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600181738563-HMUVXN7JUYDUJOPWAKS3/Wagon.JPG Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598919340253-B0SKCXF00S3CI8OO28Q9/Creative+Gardens+barn.png Lost USR - Creative gardens’ barn The image at right appeared in the Record in 1984. It was taken by staff writer Linda Cataffo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1607913800563-7M6QWNL9RR15XQCIOM9V/CreativeGardensOverhead.jpg Lost USR - OVERHEAD This circa 2015 satellite image provides perspective on the property’s arrangement. This is looking NW. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615520376452-A6W4QR85VUQEDU4WNWNM/ParkerBarn.jpeg Lost USR This photo is from the 1930s taken by Marty Rohan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598725093649-J1R2QBAMT5ZZXVOJZ0XF/Ollie+Parker%27s+barn.JPG Lost USR - Ollie parker’s barn This picturesque barn was a favorite subject for painters and other artists. Photo by Ann Devine. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598664537456-NAPH3RAVZ7WHIUTQKSZW/ParkerBarn.jpeg Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/4070ef1c-74fb-42bf-855f-7d9fb9ad9afa/DeBaunParkerBarn.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Photo by Upper Saddle River resident, Lori Geiger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/e12e8780-6e7c-4c73-82a4-f400567e95cc/Barn-Ollie+Parker.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo is from a slide taken by Claire Tholl and is the only known photo that shows the outhouse, which was once on the property. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619659683192-B4A6W63CG0QF89UDSH88/43+Terhunebbroom+factory2.JPG Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1618274262389-UPMFPZ9LZAGCHPQA85F7/43+-+Broom+factory_DeBaun-A.jpg Lost USR The DeBaun family’s broom factory was renovated into living space at some point. It was still standing into the 1950s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598585806910-BQK5MPK736JDD0VELHOR/Wood-eck+horse%3Awagon.jpg Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600653510732-S1SG8WLBPBR7ASP4M79Z/MagdalenaWood-Eckersons.jpg Lost USR - Thirsty horse by the eckerson barn This photograph was taken around 1912 by Reeves Wood of his mother, Magdalena Neff Wood while they rented the Eckerson farm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598586107179-J84O5R6L0QVGL15QASN7/USRHS+-+Barn+scene.jpg Lost USR Sam Kanreck is on the left inside the barn with another farm hand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598586193015-2X52K276FROQIPV98JLW/Sam+K+market+wagon2.jpg Lost USR Sam Kanreck is seen here loading baskets of peaches onto a market wagon likely bound for Paterson, NJ. Sam worked on the Eckerson farm after moving from New York City to pursue a life of farming. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598713888153-6XEL2CEYUKDC6330XF4A/Wood-hay+barrack.jpg Lost USR This image is unfortunately blurry, but it shows the hay barrack that was once on the Eckerson property. The roof height could be adjusted based on how much hay was stored beneath it. This photo was taken by Reeves Wood. Some of the people were likely visiting from Passaic. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1601036511989-8NKGQO72DM9PGIVE2BHZ/EckersonBarn-1972.png Lost USR This overhead view from 1979 shows the barn at the top with its cupola casting a shadow down the roof. Carlough Road runs up the right side of the image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/6cfb28cc-ecc5-479f-9459-ab74779811f4/Barn+cupola.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo is from a slide taken by Claire Tholl. It is one of only a couple images in full color of the beautiful barn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598586358035-6HRH9M6AS8APRKM7W9E9/Elmer%27s+in+1930s.jpg Lost USR The Little Store in the 1930s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598712787434-B3ANAQJGXI3VICH9UYLQ/Elmer%27s_red.jpg Lost USR Elmer’s in the 1960s from a slide image https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598712977512-CCB8PSNOFP1O2PQFN3H0/Elmer%27s_deterioration.jpg Lost USR - Elmer’s The barns at Elmer’s fell into disrepair and were deemed unsafe. Shottmeyer Bros. proposed constructing a new building in a country style to capture the feeling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615684546314-XD41VOAGAGLFSDKUKE1H/ElmersSign_EstelleKobrin.jpeg Lost USR - ELMEr’s sign This photo was taken by Estelle Kobrin in the 1980s and used in the Upper Saddle River Heritage Calendar in 1986. The sign hung on the front facade of the store and was well-recognized. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1616703993282-J6F373T94L1SZM2U84NB/ElmersInside.jpg Lost USR - ELMER’S INTERIOR This image was taken by Christina Cappitella and shows the lunch counter, which would have been to the right when you entered Elmer’s. Many a burger was enjoyed here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/a8cd1706-8b36-4698-8906-c779190d5f9e/CarloughWarrenHouse.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This image appeared in the Ridgewood Herald on Friday, April 10, 1936 announcing the sale of the home from D. J. Carlough to Garnet Warren of New York City. The article described it as an eight-room and two-bath house, and other buildings and that it was purchased through Garret L. Nyland of the Edwin D. Allabough office. The original 2-over-2 windows are evident in this photo, giving it a more Victorian appearance. They must have been replaced shortly thereafter by the Bohlmans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/02eafb1d-a063-437b-aa51-b19005fc6904/KeidelHouse.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo, taken from the Goetschius property looking north up East Saddle River Road, shows the placement of the Keidel house and the Filer house on the opposite side of the street. It is part of the Hopper-Goetschius House collection now. The garage is visible beyond the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598586941433-C99INLNNMBJJ603SO67W/383_EastSaddleRiverRoad.jpg Lost USR - GOETSCHIUS-Keidel HOUSE A real estate ad from 1981 is the only known image of this house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1630123025926-160CUHCE5L7SIOHF1B0L/FilersOutsideWoolheaterHouse.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Margaret and Virginia Filer in 1943 outside their neighbor, the Woolheater’s house during WWII. Their brother, Jim, was oversees and was turning 20 on October 4. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1616635583846-7O0O9SM2X9CENNVRFL9G/GoetschiusFilerHouse.jpg Lost USR - AERIAL VIEW This images was taken from an airplane in the 1960s. Though obscured by trees, it gives a sense of the placement on the curve of East Saddle River Road and shows the barn/garage and orchards behind the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1622510902920-N5UTMI2KKLTCQTNR2MWN/JohnStephenGoetschiu_MaryJaneDuryea.jpg Lost USR - John Stephen Goetschius and Mary Jane Duryea John Stephen Goetschius and Mary Jane Duryea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1630152522900-87GVRP3S7NJJW2BWTGM1/Keidel+%26+Weiss.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Frank and Ruth Keidel with friends, the Weiss’s of USR, c. 1925 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1622512415941-FHU753ZSFC752Z93EO2P/CharlesFrankKeidel.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Frank Keidel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1622512261636-3A95Y7LRM3I0Y7878KDQ/LouisKeidel.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Louis A. Keidel c. 1940 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1630117310028-YPPVVDO6N203I61VKTEQ/HarryBohlman_1940.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Harry Bohlman and chickens in the yard of their house in 1940, the year he died. Photo by Edna Eckerson Filer, their neighbor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/9f750d62-ec5c-4bc0-bb51-7d5cd7e2b3d1/TomCerio.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Thomas Cerio c. 1935 for a Seaman’s Protection Certificate application. This was prior to moving to Upper Saddle River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1630121490342-VKFPSRQEO3B7GCA9AHYE/CerioYardJune4_1966_TomDiedNov2_1967.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Tom Cerio in his yard, June 4, 1966 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1630117930424-E1ZZ9GA3BGWI2AYAL191/AnnaHarryBohlman.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Anna and Harry Bohlman c. 1928, prior to moving to Upper Saddle River https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1630122823712-C9T812X3XJG7O4AWFHOY/LouiseWoolheater_LucyChicken1943.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Louise Woolheater with Lucy, the chicken, on her front steps in 1943 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598713379167-ZVMDV674D34SPPHRLI6F/Goetschius_WhiteBarns.png Lost USR This large white barn was gone by the 1920s, but there is no surviving story as to what happened to it. George Goetschius is seen here with his horse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598713514189-W54JC8OLWLKK2V6H4GAY/Goetschius+barns-7+people.jpg Lost USR The barns above stood roughly where the white barn was. The only extant structure in this photo is the outhouse at the far left (and the stone path leading to it). We don’t know when the remaining buildings were taken down or why. In this photo Steve and Lizzie Goetschius are at the far right. It likely dates to about 1915. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598713440095-R5H4O96W4MB28IAPZD7A/Barns.jpg Lost USR The only extant structure in this photo is the outhouse. This is from a slide taken in the 1950s. Visible in the barn in Steve Goetschius’s 1937 Plymouth, which was blue with hand controls (according to recollections by John Hopper). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/f36b0426-67e9-47ef-9488-ee8a5d63ba9b/Goet+Steve+w+east+hill+chickens2+copy.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This building stood up the hill from the main house on what is now the property across the street. It was Steve’s chicken coop and Steve Goetschius is in the photo. They bred and incubated chicks on the property. We have no record of when this building was torn down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/2b3eb90f-e59e-49d7-b236-445bbc45322d/GoetschiusHouse_1895.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This image appeared in the newspaper at a later date indicating that this is how the home looked in 1895 and that it was once an old schoolhouse. The large door behind the horse enabled livestock to enter the basement during harsh winter nights. Mary Jane Duryea Goetschius is seated on the porch. Her son, Irving, holding the horse, later settled in Clifton. Her daughter May, seated on the steps, moved to CT. Bertram, her younger son, settled in Rutherford. Standing next to him is an older son, Abram Goetschius, who married Anna Scott in 1901 and lived in Suffern for many years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/e63bffce-c493-4a31-8f30-777cc6630195/JohnStephenGoetschiu_MaryJaneDuryea.jpg Lost USR - JOHN STEPHEN GOETSCHIUS AND MARY DURYEA This photo likely dates to 1880-1890, around the time when they would have been living in this house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/cbef0d48-073e-492e-8232-cdf0b41717c3/MaryJaneDuryea.png Lost USR - Make it stand out Mary Jane Duryea Goetschius, circa 1880-1890. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1630170064571-9A7OAUKA2ZO32QRQ1R3L/MargaretRodkeyFiler.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Margaret Maude Rodkey Filer (b. 1866) as a young woman prior to moving to New Jersey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1630169691372-7QH4A6JCOB8MEQ6XVXS6/JohnFrederickFiler.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out John Frederick Filer, Sr. (1854-1936) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1630462427770-C7TTYK1TTVGBW4U6GWNG/DickIbsen.jpg Lost USR - carl richard “Dick” ibsen on the porch c. 1910 Dick Ibsen was born in 1908 in Upper Saddle River (possibly in this house). He was the son of Jessie May Filer and her husband Carl Ewald Ibsen, who lived in the Abraham Hopper house across the street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598588064921-QDE7WS9L7UICMJN7IZ1N/IMG_7263.jpg Lost USR Ruth Hicks is seen here behind the farmhouse circa 1906. Her mother, Eva Hicks, is sitting on the stoop on the west side of the house. Interesting to note are the Greek Revival style fireplace mantles leaning against the barn. They may have begun doing some minor renovations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598671276780-I78CSR7A1AT8P1VW7DGL/Hicks+home-Union+back+1908.png Lost USR - RUTH AND HER FATHER Charles Follen Hicks and his daughter Ruth stand by a cow behind their home in 1908. Notice the dog in the dog house at the right. This photo shows the Victorian bargeboard decoration along the eaves which was removed soon after. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598714443789-42KC03IS2PYL9NLSIEZY/Hicks+house-pine+tree.jpg Lost USR This image demonstrates the most clearly how the house was doubled in size. The right portion was the traditional Greek-Revival start. The porch was later removed and a smaller portico added as a replacement. The house also became shingled, which unified the massing somewhat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598650071476-Z7NHSAAI8KL9MCS66QSH/MrsEva+Hicks_Ruth-porch.jpg Lost USR - EVA AND RUTH Eva Jewett Curtis Hicks and her daughter, Ruth Hicks, sit on the side porch of their new home. A cat can be seen scurrying behind them. This is the best known existing photograph of Eva. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598587774321-ILKQVVHGQDSEOSIHQCQP/32+Ruth+Hicks+hs-frm+Halik.jpg Lost USR - hicks house and barn There was a smaller barn near the house, which appears to have had a matching green asphalt roof in more recent years. This is the only known photo to include it that is in color. This also shows the shingled siding that replaced the original clapboard. This is not the barn that appears below, which was set further back. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/47247a0d-8037-4f89-a866-1520dec11966/Screen+Shot+2023-07-28+at+11.27.45+AM.png Lost USR These are the only three known photos of Ruth’s barn, which was also lost when the house was demolished. It was not a large barn, but built in the English tradition. The photo at left was taken by local resident, Lori Geiger. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/5f0d8d0d-030a-486f-bf9c-3b03c9e3f683/Screen+Shot+2023-07-28+at+11.28.18+AM.png Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo was taken in 1984 by Claire Tholl for the Bergen County Historic Sites Survey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/00b0c9e7-4760-4369-80e8-2775cc84b980/RuthsBarn.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Like the photo above, this image was taken by resident Lori Geiger and was reproduced in a calendar in the 1980s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/f54c2484-cc59-466f-98d7-95209de769d8/HicksHouse.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out The barn to the left is the same as the two above. Hidden within the trees/vines to the left of the house is the smaller barn, which had a green roof later on. There is a visible car in the driveway that likely dates this photo to around 1920. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1622410768804-4XHN1FI31B5PB98KML8B/52OldStoneChurchRoad.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1622410897550-5G9E9B69PXEVVC4MUIUU/IMG_5333.JPG Lost USR - Demolition The house and garage/barn were demolished in May, 2021 after the property was sold. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1630468743090-IMXINNHT51Z5IZ35DAR1/Metal+Ceiling+Ad+1925.jpg Lost USR - Ad for Bob’s metal ceiling company Several ads ran in the Hoboken/Jersey City directories in the early 1900s like the one seen here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1622411265746-DOEOLKL2DN99VZIMNGO5/RobertHoffmann.jpg Lost USR - Bob Hoffmann c. 1900 This wonderful photo was posted online by Heather Hay Dixon, a descendant of Bob’s niece, Muriel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598651318940-1XXF5MDX5GC19GZEVT9P/Ike+Hopper_Neithardt-Jan+Ri.jpg Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598826449476-VG4LE0TK79US6F65UDOT/June7_1885_NYTImes.png Lost USR - Barn burned The barn on the property burned to the ground on June 7, 1885 and killed Garret Van Gelder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1398517a-c933-42b0-b297-2b2f0f7dd806/IMG_7251.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Arthur and Amelia Neithardt, courtesy of their granddaughter, Carole Levitt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/68ad95b2-4fa6-48b8-a177-8cfe7e5b6e77/IMG_7237.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Arthur and Amelia Neithardt, courtesy of their granddaughter, Carole Levitt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/a19e14e8-c504-4578-bb7f-ce2069211f28/IMG_7235.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Jack Neithardt and his sister, Julia Neithardt, children of Arthur and Amelia. Julia lived in this house as a small child. Jack was a developer who was responsible for Jan River Drive (named using his initials) and other streets in town. Photo courtesy of Julia’s daughter, Carole Levitt. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/5e74d395-f027-4a0c-97d0-d68d1cf2f8cc/AbramHopperHouse_BellFamily.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Photo from Gail Derdeyn Alnemy. Theobald Bell can be seen on the right and Mildred in the center with an unknown man on the left. The house is in the background and a sheep can be seen alongside the porch. Directly behind the people appear to be cold frames, which consisted of glass panels that served to establish seedlings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1632331883093-Q4Y6XWJRTKCYY3XWAJ1S/Margaret+Phoebe+Fink.JPG Lost USR - MArgaret phoebe fink bell Margaret and her husband, Theobald, moved into the house after the Filers and Ibsens and were likely renting from the Neithardt family. This image was provided by a relative via ancestry.com. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598821311707-H20W0Z4VKZXYSWCUINJ6/Wood-Terhune+farm+back.jpg Lost USR This is perhaps the best known photograph of the various structures that stood on the property. The house can be seen in the distance surrounded by smaller buildings. At the right amidst the pine trees is the small smoke house that’s seen in greater detail below. Other buildings may have been for chickens and other livestock. The large barn at left is also seen below, but it seems by the 1930s the smaller ones had already been taken down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598723476221-YRC94T8FUNC7PWVFVRLH/Bee+keeping+at+WoodHouse2.jpg Lost USR The Wood family (and perhaps some farm hands) can be seen here tending their bees behind the house. In the background are the roofs of two small structures that stood on the property. It appears the one to the right was a smokehouse with a small chimney on it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598671589221-86KLHYTHB5LIN15GX3J9/Wood-barn%2C+car%2C+beehives.jpg Lost USR This image was taken from the corner of the house looking north. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598674185432-QSUKTT5Y4WONVXDS72MK/WoodTaylorBarn.jpeg Lost USR This view was taken looking west from Lake Street. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615519937733-QQPDKZPBGLAHVQY26RUI/TaylorBarn.jpeg Lost USR - Barn circa 1988 This image was taken by Lori Geiger. It’s looking west across the yard between the house and barn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/3d8fe008-2076-4f76-8580-1936ffbd12de/Terhune-Hopper+sw+view+copy.jpg Lost USR - Looking southeast While the house is still standing, the furthest extension with the solid white facade is no longer there. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598653452389-89AUEKG99CQ5TPBX0C7D/1898.jpg Lost USR This handsome Eastlake Victorian wood-frame home was located somewhere in Upper Saddle River and is no longer standing. Rev. Van Kampen is seated on the far right on the porch with various members of the Hopper family including Jacob Henry Hopper, who got married in 1898 (he was about 46) and his wife who are on the left. Mary Christina Hopper Demarest is pictured with her husband Abraham Wesley Demarest (who lived in the Queen Anne on E. Saddle River Road). This photograph was taken in 1898. If anyone recognizes it or can help identify it we would love to hear from you! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598714682006-MJA5MSLUCRE0UBMOI7MR/Kroner+house_cropped.jpg Lost USR The Kroner house just before it was demolished. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598655559563-PH93UAXDWXIV5PBSOZ9T/Kroner+House_John+Kroner.jpg Lost USR - John kroner on the porch John Kroner was a wealth of information on the history of the town, farming techniques etc. He ran the pick-your-own Strawberry farm for many years. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/aea36831-57d7-4e38-911a-d7245b5465a4/Kronerhouse.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This image, though far away, is the earliest known photo of the Kroner house and likely dates to about 1910, shortly after the Kroner family bought it. It indicates that it had been painted in different contrasting colors, which was common in the Victorian era. This picture was taken near where the Methodist Church is today looking west. The hill in the background is where Union Avenue is. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/292a5983-91fa-4704-a3bb-a7261dae43cc/Kroners2.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo was undated, but likely was taken in the 1920s/30s. The square window in the center and in the peak above the bay has small, square panes of glass, which were characteristic of the Queen Anne style. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/00c0febc-c437-4583-9f06-854b4e99e0ed/Screen+Shot+2023-07-28+at+11.31.00+AM.png Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo was taken, likely by Claire Tholl, for the Bergen County Historic Sites Survey, produced in 1984. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598714842578-VXVWSRZ2XGU4MQPG1BCW/John+Kroner+w-sibs.png Lost USR - Fred and alice kroner John, Carrie and George Kroner are ready for school to begin in 1918. Fred Kroner built the house and raised his children there, including Alice, who is seen here in a giant chestnut tree. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/dde25540-9feb-45b6-afe1-244940eea638/StrawberryPicking1915.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo from 1915 shows farm workers picking strawberries with handmade baskets. The writing on the photo said they were “for market 2 cents per quart” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599534595314-63NZC7Y7ZNLHUR3HWC98/VaughnBrown_KronerFarm_1979.jpg Lost USR Vaughn Brown working as the cashier at the Kroner farm stand along West Saddle River Road in 1979. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599535029301-G8C3TVGA456TDCQS6OLV/Kroner_1961_1972.jpg Lost USR A circa 1961 ad for strawberries and visitors picking their own in 1972. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1617052147212-E6607TZUQ6SIXJ3NO2XR/Screen+Shot+2021-03-29+at+5.08.40+PM.png Lost USR John Kroner, age 8 in New York City. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/0052a8d1-973a-4e39-9e62-6581fb527b1d/Kroner%2Bbarn%2B1955.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo from 1955 shows a large barn that is long gone. This photo was sent to us by John Kroner’s niece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/99d4e183-de17-42c9-9505-7518e0a4c36c/Screen+Shot+2023-05-28+at+9.22.45+PM.png Lost USR - Make it stand out This image is a film still from a home video taken by John Kroner from the hill where the Methodist Church (later Cultural Center) is, looking north. The Kroner house would have been just out of the frame to the right. It gives a good sense of the placement of the barn and another smaller barn is visible to the west of the large one. The video reels were given to the Historical Society by John Kroner’s niece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/c9032ae2-3e2b-4ee7-9927-a407df1e0b65/KronerBarn.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This image shows another building on the Kroner property, which is gone now. It stood to the south of the house, as you can see in the 1940s image to the right. The photo above was taken as a slide by historian, Claire Tholl, in the 1950s along West Saddle River Road looking west. The tudor-style house in the background is located on Hillcrest Drive. We can see from this photo that the Kroner’s had a gas pump on the property, likely to fuel the various farm vehicles they had on site. Perhaps this building was a garage. It likely was demolished in the 1960s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/7793a2bb-ee98-4c74-8410-26bac3974691/IMG_3658.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1622402652597-JTTS4DOXUHWKAB7VE95Y/333LakeStreet_MarkleyHouse.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619659130405-MAYV2BEUENBD6FL50G5B/KnightsBarn.jpg Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/9e710547-7435-4778-a1b2-a4e877733f34/489032189_1099284945574889_4656431513104808233_n.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This and the photo below were taken from a Facebook group of Knights Day Camp memories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/afa20287-0bc8-4d46-879f-de90e6f6212c/100083140_10158251420578550_6217925146280198144_n.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/abc2cec1-d4b1-47df-8053-3914036d2efc/83298359_10213335924111533_1749820911055273984_n.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/d8ea4936-349d-487e-b86c-fa69063b1093/MessengerHouse.jpg Lost USR This image was reproduced in the Bergen County Historic Sites Survey in 1984. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/b17df75b-4be5-43a8-a106-ac146c2ed094/Messenger-Weiss+Rd+.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo is from a slide taken by Claire Tholl and is the only known image in full color of this no longer extant home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600042380298-IYLIEWVUZFJ44EPJVSZJ/The_Sunday_News_Sun__Feb_13__1983_.jpg Lost USR This image was printed in the Sunday News when the home was for sale in 1983. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600014006960-2PBCUW20YZEOCR6JADAA/The_Ridgewood_News_Sun__Dec_13__1981_.jpg Lost USR This newspaper image is from 1971. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1617051969308-99YLUH5XUDNQT04MLMEB/MessengerHouse.jpg Lost USR Another newspaper image from the 1980s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1617052008974-LRW956U3GJAWRBYLSLC2/MessengerFamily.jpg Lost USR Irene Strong Messenger with sons Robert (left) and Ray (right). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598659604411-VHRYSAIPD7B2K6ZC0DYI/07+Mettowee+barn+%26+silo.png Lost USR The milk barn contained a herd of milking cows. Milk was delivered to local customers in glass bottles early in the morning. They would be placed in a milk box outside the customer’s home and empty bottles could be retrieved at the same time. at right is one of the paper cap inserts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598715061083-Q1U5I6JE7OAC7L3THIYP/Mettowee+sign+and+barn.png Lost USR Mettowee was a favorite local spot for pumpkins and other fall crops. The image at right would have been taken driving north on East Saddle River Road. Photo found online. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1601413061057-6LLH30H9JSZTOMQBLDJF/1945+Barn.Milkhouse+on+farmstead+in+Upper+Saddle+River_cropped.jpg Lost USR - 1945 view This image was taken in 1945 from the porch of the Dykstra’s house looking west across the valley. The dairy barn is on the left, the silo hidden behind a tree and the farm stand on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/2f5bb882-cd21-4d9d-8237-89e396c8b045/StoneBuilding.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This wonderful image was shared with us by Jennifer Koan. The barn was likely constructed around 1900-1910 and may have been built by a mason from Rockland County, William Zabriskie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599100666499-YYUJYTPOHAMZNAHRVP28/IMG_2961.png Lost USR The barn during the fire. At right is a newspaper ad for the company from 1962. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1617052595627-MP0J3KTIFXGIXOB51EW6/Screen+Shot+2021-03-29+at+5.15.41+PM.png Lost USR - Fire in 1964 This image shows the rubble stone Craftsman style construction of the large barn. It was a memorable day for the Upper Saddle River Fire Department. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1614655286671-SJ54NYSSVRC6M3RB7X58/NaturesCreations.jpeg Lost USR This overhead view was taken in 1952 (and printed in the Ramsey Journal) looking north and shows the large farm with its many outbuildings. The Journal ran a column, “Farm of the Week” and featured aerial views of area farms. Readers were asked to identify the in return for $1 certificates to local stores. This was no longer a working farm when the photo was taken. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1612725549585-9M4G7XSMJCH0L8U57GWD/NussearHouse_retouched.jpg Lost USR - NUSSEAR House circa 1950s View looking southeast from the middle of West Saddle River Road. The milk box (probably from Mettowee) is visible on the porch - an item no longer in use today. Photo provided by the Nussear family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1633795614585-E50QRN6IJ5AHD0HCQNBV/NussearHouse.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This aerial shot was taken from a plane in the 1960s. The Nussear-O’Shields house is in the center. In the foreground was Alan Johnstone’s house. The top right was the Fleming’s house. The buildings on the top left were a grouping of houses and a chicken farm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/a6d1d135-31eb-4d45-9ea7-644de5e8583b/CharlesNussear.jpg Lost USR - Charles Nussear c. 1934 Photo from Sewanhaka High School, Floral Park, NY https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598663952428-W2UYNAMWU04AJJW3ACPP/Chapel.jpg Lost USR - 1960s view This is the only known color image of the chapel. The Hopper farm is visible in the distance on the left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599664087896-HICSE54IICXX29XL8QV6/Chapel.png Lost USR This image was taken by Rob Tholl in 1972. You can see the deterioration of the roof. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1614981108595-R8OPSWMU07EM7DAGCPV0/Chapel_1950s.jpg Lost USR - Chapel as a classroom When Bogart School had not yet been constructed, but the town needed more space the chapel was used as a school anex. This photo was taken in the 1950s. The walls are covered in Victorian bead board. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/57bd43ae-ff05-4127-87ca-ce3a31386f68/12+-+Mr.+Cavallini+_Chapel+1950.jpg Lost USR - EMIL CAVALLILI OUTSIDE THE CHAPEL This c. 1950 photo shows the school superintendent and namesake of one of the town’s schools alongside the chapel. Behind Mr. Cavallini is Old Stone Church Road and the cemetery adjacent to the church. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598919105169-X3NE5OJRUX4GT1DDT9YY/04+Osborne-Kelly+Hs+side_crop.jpg Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599961483873-TGZGKZBP7UYFPKT04C6G/HopperOsbornHouse.jpg Lost USR - Hopper-Osborn House pre-1916 This image was included in the Bergen County Historic Sites Survey and shows the house prior to 1916. It was reproduced in the Journal, Upper Saddle River Section, Borough’s 70th anniversary, Nov. 19, 1964. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598716916895-93FE9Q70LUBKZL064E0X/Osborn+barn+before+move+copy.png Lost USR The inset image shows the barn once it was reassembled by Peter Strasser in Monsey, NY. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600655542219-UWMAPCOGA7U7TF9P9P2G/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-08-29%2Bat%2B11.56.52%2BAM.jpg Lost USR The Osborn property can be seen on this 1876 map on the far left. Upper Cross Road is just to the right, connecting to West Saddle River Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598664597566-XQH0ZK4IXVECKGM0MHPF/Pitt-Ev-house.jpg Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/2c2fa3fb-8d1a-4422-be7e-6022b388a8c4/EvPitt_HandColored.jpg Lost USR - Everett pitt Seated on steps he made in front of his house. Only the stone wall along the road’s edge remains. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/5fe6db5c-af19-4773-aec6-be3ee81f223e/PittHouse.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/666a01b7-835b-4c5c-9cbc-24f37b9b3f21/EvPittHouse.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/18a17a38-13b2-4515-90db-f8641601ac70/AlPetersens.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/28e09750-1dc6-459d-8828-9f6c6ac29cd2/AlPetersens.png Lost USR - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/49e2a8cf-5ee5-4779-a3fa-d5be838f0794/PostMorrisHouse_1984.png Lost USR - C. 1984 This circa 1984 image was reproduced in the Bergen County Historic Sites Survey and shows the back of the house. The porch, seen below, had been removed in this photo, likely taken by Claire Tholl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/88b04b87-f21f-4913-bf44-8d33ac64e9c1/PostMorrisHouse.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This image was provided by Charlotte Baldassari whose grandparents lived here from the 1940s-1980s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1601036310100-GYYVTJG2M00SYUJUH3O7/Post-MorrisHouse-1952.jpg Lost USR This is an aerial image from 1952 showing the house and barn along the west side of West Saddle River Road. Sparrowbush runs off the left side of the image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/585af4ae-fdb4-4f9b-a6c9-8088fbca50b1/PostMorris_Barn.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This summer picnic photo of the Morris family is one of only two known images that capture any aspect of the English style barn, which once stood north of the home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/6689fbc0-2fc8-49f0-bbdf-db897dc96096/PostHouse.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo is from a slide taken by Claire Tholl from West Saddle River Road looking west onto the property. It shows the well. A porch had been removed from the house when this was taken. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/17d9a81e-1d17-4b8d-9452-ef3437738253/Barn-post%27s+on+Sparrowbush.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo is from a slide taken by Claire Tholl from West Saddle River Road looking diagonally onto the property. It shows the barn in full color and is the only known such photo. A porch had been removed from the house when this was taken, which can be seen in one photo above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/24189be5-3f80-4d8a-8261-ed9c5943a51a/PulisSnyderHouse.jpg Lost USR This image was included in the Bergen County Historic Sites Survey in 1984. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599970757899-EML7DBQHCMJZG4UBVTP8/image-asset.png Lost USR Capt. Robert C. Sorge is shown with one of his sheep on the property in 1971 while his wife Peg and daughter Karen look over the fence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1622399046928-3VDXCIH5BWWQMW4LWTN3/ChiefRehainHouse.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This image is taken looking southwest and depicts the Rehain house during Bucky Rehain’s baptism celebration in 1941. Chief Rehain is the second man in from the right. The Rehain family built 5 homes on Lake Road. 4 of them are standing today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1622399166254-UXE8H9YZACZJ7KY44NKL/RehainHouse.jpg Lost USR - Rehain house c. 1944 The Rehain’s pony, Brandy, is seen here pulling a cart in front of the house and includes the Rehain’s three children, Merilyn, Bucky, and Joan around 1944. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/38152630-d1b9-41c7-86b4-1c0c2cb3fef4/PHRichardsonHouse_1984.png Lost USR - 1984 appearance This image was included in the Bergen County Historic Sites Survey in 1984 and was likely taken by Claire Tholl. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598665682921-BLBPG0N1D63ONXKQOF9K/5-Rte+17+-saddle+inn.jpg Lost USR An early postcard image of the Saddle Inn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598826706278-9WK30SMR26PTR447M32C/The_Sunday_News_Sun__Apr_28__1940_+copy.png Lost USR - Saddle inn The Saddle Inn opened July 1, 1939 by Frank Malocsay and Norman Yeomans. It was located on what was Route 2, but became part of Route 17. Norman Yeomans bowed out early on, but Frank Malocsay continued it and lived above the restaurant. The equestrian themed restaurant had a steady clientele and remained in business for about 25 years. This menu dates to April 28, 1940 when the restaurant had been open less than a year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/3248714b-f422-45af-9af7-2cb1bf43ca00/SaddleInn.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This postcard is likely from about 1960 and shows the restaurant in full color. Traffic was lighter then so you could easily access the driveway directly from Route 17. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598665420485-JQ4FG5RQ5OF5PD3SE7TO/5-Rte17+Swiss+Court.jpg Lost USR - Swiss Motel COURT The Swiss Motel Court opened in November, 1948 by a man from Switzerland. The 6-acre property was sold for $25,000 to Jerome Kiebler in 1962, then Salvatore Papa in 1967. It lasted until 1988 and the building stood until at least 2000. It was intended to resemble a Swiss chalet with little gnomes in the triangular niches along the facade. It was an outstanding example of highway commercial architecture and had no equal in Bergen County. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/d2ec5af7-2be2-4003-9165-f2b36257fd9e/SwissCourt.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This is another postcard view, likely from the 1950s or 60s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598665555708-FOW7CF0A7MIPYXOUBR8G/ValleyMotel.jpg Lost USR - Valley motel This motel was open by 1953. This postcard image dates to around 1960. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598665308284-O6URNFULK0PTFP3YJVQV/5-34+Rte.+17-Motel+17.jpg Lost USR - motel 17 The motel opened by 1954 and was owned by Alfred W. Mosca (b. 1911) and then his son, Fred. They sold it in the sixties. The building was demolished after 2000. It also had an Alpine look to it. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598665350135-HOFYVZ45G0V9JVE9S6AZ/image-asset.jpeg Lost USR - TOwer of pizza Tower of Pizza opened on Route 17 and East Crescent Avenue in July, 1956. It was owned by John and Michael Manna whose father owned a Tower of Pizza in Jersey City. Beams from the building were incorporated into the interior of a house on Ripplewood Drive in Upper Saddle River when it was demolished. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598665495839-NS5EKCFSXLCG8CWHIFZN/SmokeRiseRestaurant.jpg Lost USR - SMOKE RISE RESTAURANT This restaurant was open by 1960 and was directly across from Club 300. A burglar managed to get himself trapped upside-down in the chimney in 1964. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599102716455-P90GAXEW13IXJC7BFX0B/The_Sunday_News_Sun__Jul_2__1961_.jpg Lost USR - CLUB 300 Club 300, a bowling alley and lounge complex opened July 30, 1960 and added a 50 room motel in 1961. Mayor Thomas B. Eccles of Upper Saddle River is seen here handing the liquor license to Cal Mancuso (b. 1923), president of the club, while Cal Giunta, vice-president, looks on. The restaurant, known as The Nordic Room, served breakfast, lunch and dinner and had live entertainment. The lounge changed names several times including “Melody Lounge,” “Oriental Palace” and “Cloud 9.” According to the newspaper, the motel exterior was aqua and white. By 1979 the bowling portion had changed names to “Fantasy Bowl,” but it seems it closed shortly thereafter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600182072424-4KLF7BKNPK8ABCO9T4YI/Secor%2527s%2Bfall_NoPowerLines.jpg Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600182040845-ZM4LMBC9EOVDMLOMU0AL/Secor%2527s%2Bcabbages.jpg Lost USR Cabbages at Secor’s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598668988837-SSPDXKVMH4QKOJYIYDT8/secors.png Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598669144894-NNFFJKLDYT63EN9HME57/SecorFarm2.jpg Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598669232687-OS5HD9VX9M8OTSPZWHLA/Secor+farmhouse+cottage+copy.jpg Lost USR - Secor Cottage This small cottage was on the Secor property behind the main house. It may have been the earlier structure on the land. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600181992789-LQ1QI21JUJ33CRZSMP2O/Secor.png Lost USR - CHarles and emma secor Wedding photo of Charles and Emma Secor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598669441899-J2CE8B8E7G36KJW2EJ4S/CharlesWinfieldSecor_EmmaStratonSecor.jpg Lost USR - Charles and emma SECOR Charles Winfield Secor and his wife, Emma Straton Secor, started the farm in Upper Saddle River. Their son Charlie ran it for many years as well. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599438728535-LO6OKAI41VVFQN71AA15/Charles_DarrylSecor.png Lost USR Charles Secor, his daughter-in-law, Jackie and son, Darryl in 1987 before closing the Upper Saddle River farm stand. Photo by Linda Radin/The Record. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/5ab556f8-8383-41a1-a395-37d373efdb0f/Skouras.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Skouras Ramsey Drive-In in the late 1960s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/e3754991-e05b-4c6b-af67-e507b805781c/Food.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Waiting in line for concessions in the 1960s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/64971d35-714e-4b5f-8fc0-769eacca1bbf/DriveIn2.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/5797651b-f892-421d-b21d-357600c2e77e/DriveIn4.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/88dffffc-5a4d-4dc2-a009-e8d3018512f8/George+Henry+Snyder+home+Lake+St.%2C+UPS%2C+NJ.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Snyder Farm on Lake Street. The photo includes George Henry Snyder’s son Andrew Eugene (blonde boy in the front), George’s son Frederick Lewis at right and George’s nephew, Robert Eglinger on the pony. The pony’s name was Topsy. This photo was taken around 1940 and was provided by Eugene “Gene” Snyder and his family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/2f756b42-4bc9-460c-941a-fb88fe654267/The_Record_Mon__Apr_7__1902_.jpg Lost USR - PROPERTY SALE This 1902 newspaper indicates the sale of 6 184/1000 acre of land to Henry Snyder. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/9f896ac4-3ca9-408c-9d5f-286c66f162ec/Snyder+Farm%2C+Upper+Saddle+River+NJ+1924.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out The Snyder farm in 1924 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/d6b0d772-397b-4a4a-8e2e-efe8e2354592/Snyder+Singer+Family.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/b2384241-d66c-41a0-8a4d-24edd31ac4f2/AdrianSnyderGreenhouse.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo was provided by Liz Snyder Myers, Adrian’s daughter. It also shows the family’s “cold frames” where they would keep young plants in the colder months. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598669929073-YU51B0I2AQMLPFYSKRBM/Untitled-1.png Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598670131968-WDW1595719DM93BCJ6VR/Michael+%26+Marie+Filip.png Lost USR Michael and Marie Filip started the farm stand adjacent to their property opposite the Old Stone Church. Their daughter, Mary Filip Skinner continued the farm and farmstand. They also sold gasoline, as seen from the early gas pump “Essolene” in the middle image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/856a028f-3b23-4ce2-868e-62f089d0ac61/SkinnersFarmStand.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo is from a slide taken by Claire Tholl looking north up East Saddle River Road. It is the only known color photo of Skinner’s farm stand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/b80fd279-3195-4eeb-bae7-cc8ea68ac5eb/JohnTaylorHouse.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo was taken for the 1984 Bergen County Historic Sites Survey. The barns that made up Elmer’s Country Store are visible to the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598652056904-U0YWGJ925R1SBUD1GO68/JohnTaylorHouse.jpg Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598654588159-KX0B2YT9PMV9NCL54O47/The_Brooklyn_Daily_Eagle_Sun__Mar_23__1924_.jpg Lost USR - Rental advertisement John Taylor ran ads in Brooklyn papers to rent out his house. The one at right is from March, 1924. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598652309230-5GFMI8IQJYFVNIMQ4YX5/JohnTaylorHouse.png Lost USR These photos were taken shortly before the house was torn down. Unfortunately no pictures survive of it when it was still presentable. It was probably quite a pretty house when it was built. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600653611690-0MKFEQW5XXR37VT02NFX/JohnTaylor.jpg Lost USR - JOhn taylor He is seated on the step of Elmer’s when it was still painted white, with a dog whose name is unknown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/80bc4d1e-438a-405d-b5d1-dcb931918edd/Barn+on+Taylor+prop.+south+of+Elmers+copy.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This view of Taylor’s was taken from East Saddle River Road looking northwest. The building was the only remaining structure from Taylor’s original property still standing as of 2019. It is/was in a dilapidated state and with a more recent, but pealing red paint job. The 4-paneled door was replaced after this photo. The building appears to be an ice house, which would also make sense since it was painted white to reflect the sun. This photo was taken around 1960 by Randy Zerwacky. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/ee75f75b-b510-414b-802a-5ba22c84ea43/Taylors.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This aerial view from the 1950s is looking north up East Saddle River Road. John Taylor’s house is in the foreground and his barns that became Elmer’s are just to the north. Across the street is the Hopper-Goetschius house. The ice house in the previous image must have been to the south of this. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/a251ae22-87ff-4d26-847a-5149083fb42f/TerhuneBarn.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598654923906-AEN5NPIBHLW2ZFRL6UY2/41+Terhune-Johnstone-nice.jpg Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598725221845-5WOLZ366OHCS6VKUV0SC/Terhune+w_Edgar.jpg Lost USR - EDGAR M. TERHUNE BEHIND HIS HOUSE Alan Johnstone’s grandfather, Edgar M. Terhune, is behind his house in this late 19th century photo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598714628770-181F49EPTO9MPAY80MYX/Ethel%2C+Edgar%2C+Bertha+by+barn2.png Lost USR This early photograph shows Ethel Terhune and her sister Bertha with their father Edgar beside the barn. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598725280025-NWJ9UPWI1LF5YN0FBZEA/Wm.+Johnstone.jpg Lost USR - William johnstone with dogs Ethel Terhune’s husband, William Johnstone, is seen here in front of the house holding two Scottish teriors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598654992809-FZYOSQLPEW8D8F061PL3/Terhune-Johnstone+rear-pine+trees_new.jpg Lost USR This color image is from a slide taken in the 1950s. The stone wall was the end wall of the out kitchen and was unique in that only three like it existed in Bergen County. It had an additional wood-frame, barn-like extension beyond that, which can be seen in a photo above, and had been removed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/6b8fc433-9815-4de0-a29b-d1a39c1bb875/TerhuneOutKitchen+copy.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo was taken for the 1984 Bergen County Historic Sites Survey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/faa379ee-efef-4206-be95-5b7eba11ee57/Wood-tenant+hs+on+Eckerson+farm+copy+%281%29.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo was taken by Reeves Wood, who purchased the Eckerson farm when the family moved from Passaic around 1905. The farmhouse is still standing, but the barns and this tenant (slave) house are gone. The photo was digitally colorized by Justin van Deursen in 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/14879858-f809-4c51-beb0-59bad720cff4/260e890c-53b5-49ce-9719-178e6352a5c7.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out These two photos show Sam Kanreck, who the Wood family hired to help with farm work. He was born in Austria and moved to New Jersey to take up farming after living in the city. He spent the remainder of his life in Upper Saddle River, where he married and raised two daughters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/315b0ef7-30af-4006-8b9b-bdd035a4edef/df82e49e-a0ae-43ed-9fd3-8d5d238c4b37.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out The tenant house is just visible to the left in this image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/47112e85-2fd2-4b59-8163-f38bb85de7f1/95275c8e-943a-415b-926d-a9afc661a1f6.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo shows Reeves Wood’s father riding a plough through the field. The Terwilleger-Eckerson house is visible in the center of the image, the large barn, which is also described on this page is to the right with the tenant (slave) house just in front of it (on the opposite side of what was a narrow street). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1601413414080-851U78N3YFICUJCQLLD0/TOWNSEND%2BHOUSE.jpg Lost USR This photo was taken by Ethel Terhune Johnstone, who was working as a real estate agent in Upper Saddle River in the 1920s and 30s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/57b783a0-fbde-45e0-8c29-06b6bc73fd05/GardinerFarm1922.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Francis Gardiner house, taken by Edna Eckerson Filer, 1922 and provided by her granddaughter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/11946b35-a4ce-4168-a4c6-9f060a9d78ac/GardinerHouse_1923.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Francis Gardiner house, taken by Edna Eckerson Filer in January, 1923 and provided by her granddaughter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/9227383e-8ce8-4e0d-b57b-a7e075bc2850/GardinerHouseRear.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Back of the Francis Gardiner house. Photo from the collection of Edna Filer’s descendants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/bcd20509-f00c-42f3-8e6d-526878bac896/FredFiler_GardinerFarm.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Fred Filer on “The Iron Horse,” a Fordson tractor, on the Gardiner farm, in 1923. Photo from the collection of Edna Filer’s descendants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/d38da17c-7be0-4185-9605-3c57da858425/GardinerHouse_Jan1923.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out 1920s photo of the large extension on the Francis Gardiner farmhouse. It appears it may have been for summer vacationers, or perhaps farm workers’ lodging. Photo from the collection of Edna Filer’s descendants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/6383568e-bd8b-401f-beb8-f3689799d4c7/FrancisGardiner2.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Francis Gardiner, seemingly in Florida, cutting a coconut. Photo from the collection of Edna Filer’s descendants. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598826777173-6GR8254QVTGIBOFH6ASX/FrancisGoertner.png Lost USR - FRANCIS J. GOERTNER (b. 1893) Francis Goertner also went by Gardiner after 1918 as a result of anti-German sentiment following WWI. This passport photo was taken in 1921. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600011322455-PAYZG2K50SDJHYFQ7LP2/IMG_3060.jpg Lost USR These photos were taken as the home was being renovated. The simple Victorian scrollwork and spun posts were removed and windows updated. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600010681116-X4BDBPUTDFSQ8LCJYLJU/TuthillHouse.JPG Lost USR This view is looking southwest at the side entrance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600010708007-38ONLWBDZIOVEOYAOZCC/TuthillHouse1.JPG Lost USR This is the back of the house with one window showing on the east elevation. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598819877660-0MO2I6S28YX3FS2W9NSS/Theodore_Charity.png Lost USR Theodore Goetschius (b. 1861) and his wife, Charity Elizabeth Smith (b. 1867). Theodore was living in the house with his children after his wife died. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598820522268-9HI1SDZIPN6RFNATO6RW/GoetschiusChildren.png Lost USR Five of Theodore and Charity’s children: Alice, Olive, Harry, Marguerite and Hazel. Hazel may have been born in the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598821094564-Y37NJCX0KBJEKQZ80KHQ/TuthillHouse_Cropped.jpg Lost USR This is how the house appeared more closely to its demolition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599105893270-M1GUGF12TCF3GS1DQ5DS/Myrtle_EdMiller.png Lost USR Eddie and Mimi Miller owned Unique Medal and Badge starting in 1960. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599106102489-PIE6N0RUP59R8CLUMXV1/The_Morning_Call_Fri__Sep_5__1947_.jpg Lost USR - 1947 Advertisement Many ads ran for men and women to work in plating, stamping, packing and “light, easy homework.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600656518315-ERN3PI04JXT1LF2M9BBM/UniqueMedalAndBadge_1972.png Lost USR - OVERHEAD VIEW This overhead view was taken in 1972 and shows Old Stone Church Road just west of the big bend in the road. The long driveway lined with evergreens lead to the building that housed Unique Medal and Badge. The red-roofed building to the left is on the site where Henry Hall Goetschius and John Walthery ran their blacksmithing business and where Starck’s chocolate factory operated in the 1930-1950s. The red-roofed building still stands. Patriot Lane now runs between the two lots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/f66e9944-ee7b-4319-a4b2-48b3f2379719/VanBuskirkBarn.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo is from the 1984 Bergen County Historic Sites Survey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/9920c1bb-734a-4be2-a31d-7ff7c3b8b696/Screen+Shot+2023-07-27+at+6.05.11+PM.png Lost USR - Barn on site The southern gable of the barn is visible in this photo, taken in 1984 while the house was undergoing renovation. It helps show where the barn stood in relation to the extant home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598917415304-Z91A3PPN0L5MWVJU7DC2/Valley+View+Farm+USR+poscd.jpg Lost USR This postcard image dates to about 1919. At right it says, J. G. DeBaun, Saddle River Market. Perhaps they were sold there. The original belongs to the Paramus Historical Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/93f27f5d-b7e8-4727-b105-5906aa126284/DeBaunFarm.png Lost USR - Make it stand out This postcard view of the De Baun farm was also sold in John G. De Baun’s store in Saddle River. It was printed in the United Kingdom around 1910. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598718274880-OLW9JRC3BQR3GWKFGW8L/4-4+Walthery+barn+1928-fixed+2.jpg Lost USR This photo was taken in 1928 before it was torn down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598718337913-IJ0YJKX1CFWYS4EGNQ9M/HenryHallGoetschius.jpg Lost USR - HENRY HALL GOETSCHIUS (1838-1916) Henry owned the barn and hired John Walthery to do the blacksmithing while Henry ran the business. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598718392040-FTQLPE689P4S70H92SA3/Westrn+Union+bldg.jpg Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599665126213-KG4K8JAJYCFI2UL8QCRX/Screen+Shot+2020-09-09+at+11.25.10+AM.png Lost USR This photo was taken by Rob Tholl in 1972. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1619658755985-33W8XSUH8B2KW0HLFFRF/Woll+house.jpg Lost USR A rare color image of the house in a state of disrepair. All the windows were broken at this point. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598718853749-4X0K37K6TPXVSUG2A9XF/WollHouse_Interior.jpg Lost USR - foyer interior These are two of several photographs of the home taken by Rob Tholl. You can see the deteriorating condition. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599665071219-CIFQNRR927ENUOSY64VZ/Screen+Shot+2020-09-09+at+10.56.52+AM.png Lost USR An interior image of the Woll house, taken by Rob Tholl in 1972. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599665325520-UT0TIAEJA3VSJPRS1AQ6/WollGarage.png Lost USR The house had a large 3-car garage, which was a rarity in 1946 when it was constructed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600826900956-JAC3NXIP02U8IYD63O3T/WollMansion_1952.png Lost USR Above is an aerial view taken in 1952. The road at the top left comes in from East Saddle River Road and later became part of Grist Mill Lane. The driveway curved to the south of the house. To the lower right is the garage seen in the photo here and above that to the right is the caretaker’s house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598928559349-4DMGG3P4EV68U9YZRV2S/CeleonorDugasWoll_SamuelGompers_MatthewWoll.png Lost USR Celeonor and Matthew are pictured at left and center with Samuel Gompers. At right is an untitled portrait by Celeonor Dugas Woll. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/67265993-c50d-408e-acc3-c28413a58bac/0.png Lost USR - Make it stand out This side-by-side comparison demonstrates what exists today, incorporating the large portion with low gable roof and the original massing. The left extension was also retained, but the tower is gone, along with original fenestration throughout and other portions. The original garage is also gone. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598719041207-MV0UGPNU64926LNDBIFC/Wortmann-Dietrich+log+cabin.jpg Lost USR https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598719620274-C93OZMKW991S5JXK7C8V/WustlAbove.png Lost USR The above image from the 1950s includes Elmer’s and the John Taylor house on the left in the foreground and Fred Wüstl’s house and barn on the opposite corner. At right was taken around 1916 before the firs. The photo includes Henrietta Wustl Beckman, around 19, and her younger sister, Dorothy Wustl and dog, Teddy. It is the only known photograph of the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/88ae0e7c-54d4-407e-986b-ae4f0baf1659/Wustl2.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo is the south side of the house, taken prior to the fire in 1936. You can see the large dormer had a Dutch gambrel roof on it, which was simplified and replaced after the fire and the window in the eaves was replaced by a smaller, half-round one. This photo was loaned by Robert Beckman. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/d636c17a-3227-4135-90c2-3453de52028a/WustlHouse.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This image was looking up the hill from East Saddle River Road and was also taken prior to 1936. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/69b2113b-4d7c-4f32-b66f-e5bdb715e615/FredWustl.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out A Victorian-era photo of Fred Wüstl, taken in Brooklyn, NY. This was provided by Cathy Korenyk of Otego, NY. Perhaps the Thomas W. Taylor noted on the photo was a relative of his sister, Emma’s husband. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1598720817753-9TMW7Y8W50NS4RIHJTQN/Wustl.png Lost USR Above is Fred J. Wüstl in 1909; his brother and co-owner of the costume business, Carl Andeus Wüstl taken in 1910 and Carl’s wife, Emma Helena Wagner. To their right is Carl’s daughter Gertrude Wüstl and Fred and Carl’s sister, Emma Wüstl Taylor (see house above). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1633796388023-GCRD14MCUP53PQ2PSENM/Zabriskie_SkinnerBarn.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/f85ef4cd-6df9-4bec-84e4-91b7e04df6c9/ZemanProperty.JPG Lost USR - Make it stand out This image was taken from an airplane around 1955-60 and is looking west from West Saddle River Road. In the foreground is the Zeman house and property, including their in-ground pool. In the rear are the Berdan barns, which were torn down to build Reynold’s School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/271128c5-fbf3-4769-9cc9-9bc92d607db7/ZemanPool_1962.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out The Zeman’s pool in 1962. Photo from the Filer family. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/b260df5d-4715-498a-8b9d-38d92ab44593/The_Sunday_News_Sun__Aug_29__1965_.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1599191975430-D3NQ42P9COX9FMAAGMRO/JennieOsborn.png Lost USR Jennie Osborn is seen here decorating the Methodist Church (Little Zion) with her friend and neighbor, Ruth Hicks. At right she (wearing the pink hat) attended an Arbor Day celebration at Bogert School with Lizzie Goetschius (left) and Ruth Hicks (right) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/44627c61-ec28-4e6e-994e-5c1b5a7c0a1d/IMG_6296.JPG Lost USR - Make it stand out This newspaper clipping was located in the Goetschius House. The stone home depicted is no longer standing and has not been identified. Cornelius Berdan, whose farm was where Cavallini School is now, said there had been five stone homes in Upper Saddle River that had been demolished or burned. Perhaps this was one of the five. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/f90c252c-4315-44ce-86f7-4bdd7e770b8b/barn+in+USR+by+Claire.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo is from a slide taken by Claire Tholl but was unlabeled. If anyone viewing this page can identify this barn we would love to know where it was. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/e9556a27-e308-4133-aab4-5c7ef650996d/Unknown.jpg Lost USR - Make it stand out This photo is from a slide taken by Claire Tholl but it was unlabeled. If anyone can identify it please let us know. There’s a large tudor style home in the background and a long building that appears to be industrial in nature on the left. Also visible is a gas pump. https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/genealogy-inquiries daily 0.75 2020-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1600306252492-J31S99R309XQGM6RHFEA/5-2+Hennion-cows+%26+barn2_sepia.jpg Genealogical Contact Form https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/podcast daily 0.75 2021-03-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1614528592843-I31HCW16R6VEUK09M62P/History%2Bpt%2B7.jpg Forgotten History Podcast https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/demarest daily 0.75 2021-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1614650577302-X6E3T1ZHM0JEOPDPX7RI/IMG_4799.jpg Demarest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1614653302631-WEEVX1E7J4PML8DLZ7G4/Scan.jpeg Demarest This image, taken about 1920, shows the house when the DePuy family owned it, though it changed very little from its earliest days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1614653740995-9MXM3I48RPMPBHZ5PNJ0/RearOfHouse.jpg Demarest - Rear of the house Circa 1919 looking south at the rear porch/entrance when the DePuy family bought the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1614650453853-7PPV9CIC7V95PXK4NIG5/AnnaChristinaDemarest_1899.png Demarest - ANNA CHRistine demarest Anna Christine was born May 24, 1899 in Upper Saddle River. Her mother was 43 at the time. Her father, Abram Wesley died when she was 8 years old. Anna died in 1959. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1614652404716-H87F5EB9WWRXCEDWBWS5/AnnaChristineDemarest2.png Demarest - ANNA CHRistine demarest Circa 1902 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1614650920817-UBZ5OL4PPWBPH7BXL0XV/AnnaChristineDemarest_c1904.png Demarest - ANNA CHRISTINE DEMAREST Photo taken around 1904 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1614651222797-9S69J5P8KLB3XL8JNBLO/AnnaChristinaDemarest_Marriage_AlfredMcIlroy.jpeg Demarest - Anna christine demarest Anna Christine Demarest married Alfred C. McIlroy and had two children, Mary Christine and Dorothy Emma. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1614654485979-5HEULP13LI674XQ5KX0Q/NaturesCreations.jpeg Demarest This overhead view was taken in 1952 (and printed in the Ramsey Journal) looking north and shows the large farm with its many outbuildings. It was owned by John C. Coan at the time, who ran a business, Nature’s Creations, which produced store window displays for New York City department stores. A large fire in April, 1964 destroyed the barns (see the page on lost structures) and the four-seater outhouse was demolished, leaving only the house standing. https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/hicks daily 0.75 2021-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615518310576-PEPB7QRQRD1BCAY6H511/32-+Hicks+house-pine+tree.jpg Hicks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615514665103-M9HG8BTAL9GDWB0FE0HT/HicksHouse_LoriGeiger.jpg Hicks This photo was taken in 1989 by Lori Geiger and shows the side porch of the Hicks house with the door to the cellar to the right. The original clapboard was covered in cedar shingles. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615514738410-QY40BW6F8FU0FUWVWWB9/Hicks-Union-grape_arbor_Ruth_c1905.jpg Hicks - Ruth hicks by the well This photo was taken in 1906 from the porch of the Hicks house looking south onto the property. The well is at right with a bucket on the pulley. The home never had running water. A grape arbor is overhead. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615518985703-2J5RR0D52TEKR9XSSFU7/HicksFarm_Ruth_C1905.jpg Hicks - Ruth in the driveway This photo was taken the same day as the image above, in 1906, shortly after moving to Upper Saddle River. Ruth is standing in the driveway facing Union Avenue. The barn is visible behind the house. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615514841254-33SEJ7MA4YCSCF7RFBNK/Hicks_Ruth2.jpg Hicks - RUTH HICKS c. 1908 This photo was taken of Ruth Hicks while she was on Staten Island, likely visiting her grandmother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615515078611-XD2FI3KOBWXSJ22PG61G/HicksFarmUnionAvenue.jpg Hicks - FRONT FACADE This view is from Union Avenue looking west to the front facade of the home. It still retained its original white clapboard and the addition can be clearly seen at left. The right portion was a simple, Federal style home. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615515279749-814LYP816CU3VWVL7TJC/HicksEggTable.jpg Hicks - Ruth’s Egg table This weathered table was set up alongside Ruth’s home. She sold eggs from it and customers left their payment in a jar on the table. It now belongs to Ruth’s long-time neighbor and friend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615515648672-ZSQ7KBWQGJQM47NBGPLN/HicksFarmFromUnion.jpg Hicks - HIcks house from union This image, taken around 1905-1910, is looking NW on Union Avenue. The side entrance and well can be seen at left. The original clapboard is still visible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615515934008-ZI5NVS9CY1LMRJFJBMW9/HicksRuthToys2.jpg Hicks - Ruth hicks’ toy This adorable tin toy kitchen cabinet and miniature bread making tools were owned by Ruth Hicks as a child and were likely a gift from her grandmother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615517426069-XZOGG14N5XE355LOOT8K/RuthHicks.png Hicks - Ruth hicks c. 1907 This image was taken the year Ruth and her parents moved to Upper Saddle River. It might have been taken to send to her grandmother. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615517662778-WIFTP08Y0BQRSF3636G0/RuthHicksTeapot.png Hicks - Ruth’s toy teapot This teapot is part of an enameled tin toy set that Ruth was given as a child. It can be seen in the wonderful studio photograph seen below that was taken of her in 1905 on Staten Island. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615517990866-PLR0YTARTOQJL71PZPEN/Ruth+Hicks+w+tea+set.png Hicks - Ruth hicks c. 1905 This cabinet photo was taken in New Brighten, Staten Island, near Ruth’s grandmother’s house. It was taken about 1905 and the enameled tin tea set, a portion of which is seen in the above photo, is now in the possession of Ruth’s long-time neighbor and friend. We are so fortunate that they survived. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615518647958-ROM6Q8IOL67WNB8GM39X/Ruth+Hicks+Middle_updated.jpg Hicks Ruth, center, decorates the Methodist church for Christmas with her friend Jennie Osborne at left. This photo likely dates to the late 1960s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615518700862-76O5U1EJEOVQ9L7YJ1J6/RuthHicks.jpg Hicks - Ruth in the 1980s This lovely photo was taken by a neighbor (a child named Faith) of Ruth’s in the 1980s, who wrote her a letter. Ruth was legally blind at this point. https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/mettowee daily 0.75 2021-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615686370990-MFW51S1CQX36DNZGWAO7/07%2BMettowee%2Bbarn%2B%26%2Bsilo.png Mettowee https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615682469243-JA7VM7C4B7FE498QVR1W/MettoweeFarms.jpeg Mettowee This image, taken by Joel McKim in the 1980s, shows Mettowee’s large barn, initially used to house milking cows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615684060559-QX91256T7IUO9MX1NNL3/1918+%285-22%29+Richard+and+Frances+Dykstra+wedding+photo.jpg Mettowee - Richard and frances dykstra This photo was taken May 22, 1918 on their wedding day, two years prior to buying the farm that became Mettowee in Upper Saddle River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615683082305-CBJB7EDLTZK95GS5S6EQ/1940%27s+%28possibly%29++Richard+Dykstra+copy.jpg Mettowee - RICHARD DYKSTRA Taken around 1940, this image is looking east toward the Dykstra house (which is still standing) at the crook of Oak Drive and Grandview Avenue. This shows Richard Dykstra heading toward the barns at Mettowee, carrying one of their glass milk bottles. Richard was born in 1888 in the Netherlands. He married Frances Minnema (b. 1894 Netherlands). They raised ten children in Upper Saddle River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615683376865-9PIZ2OW7TO514XGK7H5B/1945+JohnDykstra.jpg Mettowee - JOHN DYKSTRA (1920-1984) This photo was taken in 1945 in the driveway of Mettowee Farms. The building that served as the farm stand can be seen on the left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615684900496-EH7E3BU96MC23HKLV372/1940+Sid%2C+Jeanette%2C+Fran%2C+Bob%2C+Fritz.jpg Mettowee This photo was taken in 1940 and includes Sidney (Sid), Jeanette (twin to Frances), Frances (Fran), Robert (Bob) and Fred (Fritz) Dykstra. It appears that East Saddle River Road is running behind them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615687673317-UO59C1SZPRON90EIROY6/The_Record_Wed__Aug_16__1961_.jpg Mettowee John Martin and fellow veteran dairymen were honored for 40 years of work in the dairy business in a ceremony at Mettowee in August, 1961. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615684737232-Z13LKQUMCZ3BP62F1C05/Mettowee_GasPump_LoriGeiger.jpeg Mettowee - Gas pump at mettowee This photo was taken by Lori Geiger and reproduced in the Upper Saddle River Heritage Calendar in 1989. The gas pump, long gone, probably dated to around 1930. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615686182812-NYB0FC8CHPIG0QMXJ42H/MettoweePumpkins_LonaKissinger.jpeg Mettowee Mettowee sold pumpkins from this cart for years when the Martin family owned it. This photo was taken in the 1980s by Lona Kissinger and was reproduced in the Upper Saddle River Heritage Calendar in 1987. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615776667597-SSJ8J8RGGJFVD4JIUFNW/Mettowee.jpg Mettowee - Mettowee c. 1980 This image was taken by Christina Cappitella, the founder of a facebook group, “Upper Saddle River in the 1980s” and it captures a very common view traveling north on East Saddle River Road. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615693671053-909ZR4WV99VBJ7BI7R2B/Mettowee-Pumpkins_Mr.+Martin.jpg Mettowee Mr. Martin and pumpkins for sale in the fall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615688939367-4X30N4PWYRGUTNSS666V/The_Ridgewood_News_Thu__Oct_25__1990_.jpg Mettowee - RAY MArtin delivering milk This photo ran in the Ridgewood News in 1990 after the Martins stopped selling their own brand of milk, but were still delivering milk to Ho-Ho-Kus, Saddle River, Upper Saddle River, Mahwah, Ramsey, Allendale, Montvale and Park Ridge. Their day began at 4:30am. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615854305773-JUF05NQYU0S3ECSPL0UO/Mettowee_Facebook.jpg Mettowee - METTOWEE IN THE 1980s This image was taken by Christina Cappitella, who grew up in Upper Saddle River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1633639574696-X14AEMLDMHKX1K1L93Q7/USRHS+Milk+Caps+Group.jpg Mettowee - Make it stand out A selection of bottle tops demonstrating a variety of names and decades (likely 1920s-1950s) of Mettowee’s existence. Photograph by Barry Huber. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615689478313-45KDLPB2GF7EHIBWZXX0/The_Record_Fri__Jul_26__1996_.jpg Mettowee This image, taken by Danielle P. Richards, ran in The Record in 1996 as the fate of Mettowee and its picturesque land, sloping down toward the Saddle River, was at stake. Local activist, Jane Emsbo, led a coalition of 13 members who tried to save the farm and convince the borough to purchase it. The effort ultimately failed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615689891347-3T4MFFZYZPO7BPTB0ETI/The_Record_Wed__May_14__1997_.jpg Mettowee - Mettowee truck This image, taken by Danielle P. Richards, ran in The Record in 1997. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615690100713-MWZPRD5F70KPJ2DE2SZY/The_Record_Wed__Oct_21__1998_.jpg Mettowee This photo, taken by Beth Balbierz, appeared in The Record in 1998 as bulldozers arrived to clear the land for luxury home development. It was one of the last photographs taken of the old farm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615690313788-84AYLR5PH420L7SQOJEH/The_Record_Wed__Oct_21__1998_+%281%29.jpg Mettowee - Bulldozers ready for demolition This image, taken by Beth Balbierz, appeared in The Record in 1998 and shows bulldozers ready to remove the remnants of Upper Saddle River’s last farm. https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/appleridge daily 0.75 2021-03-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615859137782-AU2NUKY6ZJ0HY707W4OF/AppleRidge.jpg Apple Ridge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615858751244-NWOFMCHVIVYFYPCJGL8A/DourcasCourterCarlough.png Apple Ridge - DORCAS COURTER CARLOUGH Dorcas Courter married James David Carlough September 16, 1868 in Wyckoff, NJ. She was born in Franklin, NJ March 15, 1848. She and David raised eight children on the apple farm that later became Apple Ridge Country Club and has since been redeveloped. Below are several of her children. This is the earliest known photo of her, taken around the Civil War. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615859262466-0HFGR8T9GOJIX4O8OHM6/ArthurWinfieldCarlough.jpg Apple Ridge - ARTHUR WINFIELD CARLOUGH Arthur Carlough was born in 1871, the second child of James D. and Dorcas Carlough. He married Minnie Amelia Beers and had ten children. He died in Ho-Ho-Kus in 1927. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615856289187-SGK5YWSTJ6NS4QL59JMI/TheresaCarlough.png Apple Ridge - Theresa MAUD carlough The Carlough family farm was home to several generations. Theresa Carlough, seen here, was born and raised there. She was Lizzie Carlough Goetschius’ sister. This photo, a tin-type, was taken around 1900. Theresa was born in Upper Saddle River in 1876. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615857280907-0IJ07I0X5A7PJZO6EJAQ/AnnabelleCarlough.jpg Apple Ridge - Annabelle carlough beers Annabelle Carlough, daughter of James D. Carlough and Dorcas Courter, was born in Upper Saddle River in 1878. She was the sister of Theresa (above) and Lizzie May Carlough Goetschius. She is seen here with her husband, Addison Beers. She died in 1957. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615857546871-QSCI01WMY7MKHCGX8S4U/CarloughSisters3.jpg Apple Ridge - CARLOUGH SISTERS and friends Lizzie May Carlough Goetschius is seen here third from the left, along with her sisters and friends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615857689430-6ZU9ILJWJV6GZHO46KGM/DavidJ.Carlough.jpg Apple Ridge - DAVID James Carlough Lizzie, Annabelle and Theresa’s brother, David James Carlough, is seen here with his family. He was born in Upper Saddle River in 1884. He was the seventh of eight children. Lizzie was the youngest. This photo was likely taken in the 1940s. David died in 1960. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615854824418-JJKJ4BBQO0B51FCGMQFH/Carlough+truck+c.1918.png Apple Ridge - LOADING APPLES This photo was taken in 1919 of the Carlough apple business, “Saddle River Brand Apples.” Members of the Carlough family are seen here including David James Carlough (b. 1884) and his wife, Nanette “Nettie” Gross (b. 1884) and their five children, Evelyn, James B., Clinton D., Emroy and Doris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615854954831-X4V60E44JGFSRL9VWCOZ/6-51b+Carlough+fruit+weathr+vane.JPG Apple Ridge - Carlough apple weathervane The Carlough family had this weathervane custom made with an apple and pear on it. The barn and weathervane were torn down. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615855654814-Y93TTWE9VIKQP9QFGNQH/carlough+apple+trees+about+to+bud2.jpg Apple Ridge - CARLOUGH APPLE TREES A rare color image of the Carlough family’s farm before it was converted to a country club. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615855495706-9TU81ZBG6QL9QOJ4ZHMF/A+OLD+%2830%29.JPG Apple Ridge - Raking the sand trap This is an early image of the Apple Ridge Country Club with workers raking the sand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615855555867-Y9IF3RX5CUB4OURMK56Y/C+CARL+%282%29.JPG Apple Ridge - CLINTON CARLOUGH Clint Carlough founded Apple Ridge Country Club and converted his family farm into the booming destination that it was. Clint was also responsible for donating the Hopper-Goetschius house and all its contents to the Upper Saddle River Historical Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615855867209-YNP55LC2YSMBKW278Y8W/AppleRidge_1960s.jpg Apple Ridge The entrance and club house of Apple Ridge Country Club around the late 1960s or early 1970s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615857980044-4P6H8N6JEOWF8VSSA2PZ/AppleRidge.jpg Apple Ridge An aerial view of Apple Ridge taken in the late 1960s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615856038032-0N3NGJWTT4FB2D0Z9AKD/D+PICS+%2815%29.JPG Apple Ridge A rare color image from the 1960s showing the patio and golf course with some remaining apple trees from the original orchard and trees beginning to turn color at the start of fall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615853779862-9ZEC3ALYKZQ15MVSVTJ0/AppleRidge_LoriGeiger.jpg Apple Ridge This photograph was taken by Upper Saddle River resident, Lori Geiger for the Upper Saddle River Heritage Calendar in the 1980s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615855731863-3MUEDNN9R5L6M6S9JS77/E+NOW+%282%29.JPG Apple Ridge - The club house of apple ridge This photo was taken in the early 2000s before the club closed and luxury homes were developed on the site. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1615855789968-3N6P8A1VYEHWJDQ0B934/E+NOW+%2819%29.JPG Apple Ridge This photo was taken of the club house in the early 2000s before the club closed and luxury homes were developed on the site. https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/firesidechat-registration daily 0.75 2021-03-30 https://www.usrhistoricalsociety.org/rsvp daily 0.75 2021-04-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f31ba32999717677bd5dfec/1617726086360-2T8XPPWJ2GPT9VZGO3HZ/HearthsideHistory_Logo.png RSVP FORM - PLEASE JOIN US We will be holding Hearthside History Chats during the months when the Hopper-Goetschius House Museum is closed to the public. 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