In June, one of the oldest houses in Englewood, New Jersey, the historic Taylor Bliss house, was dismantled and relocated two miles across town.
Since 2019, the Englewood Historical Society and a local synagogue have been working on a plan to disassemble the Taylor Bliss house and relocate it. The City Council approved resolutions in 2022. Last month the house was carefully dismantled and loaded onto a flatbed truck. It was reassembled on the property of Eleanor Harvey, founder of the Englewood Historical Society, who passed away in 2007. Harvey left her property at 500 Liberty Road to be used as a passive park.
According to Megan Burrow with NorthJersey.com, Co-president of the Englewood Historical Society, Irmari Nacht, says the house dates to 1876 and is one of the few remaining examples of a Second Empire Victorian home in the county. The home’s former residents include “Delos Bliss, a vice president at Palisade Trust and Guaranty, now known as Bank of America, and Ethel Bliss, Delos’ daughter, who was a national tennis tournament champion in 1906 and was married to Dan Fellows Platt, a city mayor early in the 20th century.”
The house will be used as a center for historical and environmental studies.
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