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It is with great pride that we, the management and staff of The PressJournal and the Bergen Newspaper Group join in the tercentennial celebration in the settlement of Closter.Before going further it should be said that we are extremely grateful andappreciative for the trust and cooperation of the leader and residents ofCloster which made the production of this book possible

Particularly deserving of our gratitude is Borough Historian Orlando

Tobia, who generously emptied out draws of his memorabilia so that we

might reproduce historic images of the borough in this special publication

of The Press Journal.Also, we are most appreciative of the efforts of Tim Adriance, a

current resident of Closter, who is a direct descendent of the originalsettlers of the town 300 years ago.

He provided numerous digital images with extensive copy explaining each.Also we appreciate the time and effort of Don Farrell, president of the

Library Trustees and Belskie Museum, board member, which houses therich artistic heritage of two Closter artisans: sculptor Abram Belskie andstone carver Robert A. Ballie.

Also the hospitality and cooperation of Closter Library Dir. Ruth RandoWe wish continued success to the vibrant creative culture of Closter,

a truly unique town that stands out in Bergen County and the GardenState.

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Dear Fellow Residents:The year was 1710; the place,New York State; the event, thesigning of a deed to 1030 acres ofland stretching from Closter DockRoad to Palisades, NY and from Pier-mont Road to the Hudson River, an area that was part ofNew York State at that time. Thus, Resolvert and BarentNagel became the first European settlers in Closter. The Dutch Nagels were followed by Englishmen, Ger-mans, Scots, French, Irish, Italians, Eastern Europeans,Russians, Armenians, Japanese, Chinese, Pakistanis,East Indians, Koreans, Philipinos, Israelis, Dominicans,Columbians, Puerto Ricans, and many others. All werewelcome, and all added to the fabric of our town.To commemorate our birth, Closter has undertaken amonth-long celebration of our history in a multitude ofexhibits, lectures, and fun events. It is our hope that theemphasis on our history will give our residents, and es-pecially our youngest generation, that sense of place,that sense of belonging, which makes a community

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cohesive, supportive, and democratic.Our events include the dedication of a plaque denotingour historic cemetery, concerts, posters, historic lec-tures, colonial carriage rides, tours of our historic homesand places of worship, a reenactment of a RevolutionaryWar raid, and a sail on the Hudson River sloop, Clearwa-ter. We are celebrating our donors, our hard workingcommittee and our entire community at a reception atour Borough Hall on April 25, Please refer to these andall our other events at our web site,www.closterboro.com or our special telephone number201-784-0600 ext.300.This booklet has been created by the Press-Journal insupport of our celebration. The Press-Journal has been avaluable part of life in the Northern Valley for over sixtyyears, and we, in Closter, are very grateful for the pub-licity it has afforded us in reaching our constituency.Communication is essential to Democracy, and thePress-Journal has been generous and objective in provid-ing this tool to our residents. We hope that you will re-tain this booklet as a memento of our milestone year.The Borough of Closter warmly thanks the Press-Journalfor researching and publishing this booklet, and wishesit continued success.

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■ By Tim Adriance

On April 25, 1710, two brothers born and raised in theVillage of New Harlem (located in the northern half ofManhattan) ventured across the Hudson River to purchasethe land of their dreams. On that day, Barent and Re-solvert Nagel purchased 1,030 acres from a land specula-tor named Lancaster Syms for “two hundred twenty fivepounds current money of the Province of New York,”which is about $10 an acre in 2010 dollars. Today thatoriginal tract of land encompasses most of Closter,Alpine, a part of Norwood, and a small section of Pal-isades, NY. The Nagel brothers were Dutch, so they naturally namedtheir place of settlement with a Dutch word – Klooster,which means “quiet place, a monastery or cloister.” Thislocation in 1710 was a quiet place, with very few peoplein the immediate area. The topography gave a sense ofisolation and protection, tucked behind the highest pointof the Palisades and protected by limited access. Barentand Resolvert Nagel must have felt “cloistered,” as if in amonastery. The name was pronounced with a “ow”sound, phonetically, “Klowster.” Eventually with theadoption of English as the primary language the “K” waschanged to a “C” but initially retained the double “o” of

the Dutch. Eventually the second “o” was dropped, andthe “long o” sound led to today’s pronunciation of“Closter.” In 1748 Barent and Resolvert Nagel divided their jointlyowned 1,030-acre tract, Barent took the northern half, andResolvert the southern half. The children of Barent, overtime, divided and sold their shares of the land amongstthemselves, to the families into which they married, andto others. Resolvert’s eldest daughter, Cornelia, her hus-band Aury Auryansen, and their three sons eventuallycame to own all of Resolvert’s land by March of 1768,having “bought out” Cornelia’s sisters’ shares in the prop-erty. The Auryansen family remained very prominent inCloster for more than another hundred years. The twofamilies, the Nagels and the Auryansens, over time, andafter many intermarriages took on variant spellings of thesurnames; today they are mostly known by – Naugle andAdriance. After 300 years three quarters of an acre of the original1710 purchase is still owned by the family here in Closter– the old family cemetery, which is the final resting placeof Closter’s early settlers.

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The John Nagel house (75 Harvard Street) is the eastern house of the pairlabeled #12 on the Verplanck map. Today the house stands as a fine homewith additions to the original pre 1745 stone structure. A frame wing wasadded to the west of the original stone section in what appears to havebeen in the early part of the 19th century, around 1974 a wing was addedto the east of the house (the wing fortunately was set back and does nottotally obscure the original stone section), and at some point prior to 1980a two car garage was added west of the 19th century frame wing (this alsowas set back). The original stone house is thirty one feet across the frontelevation (south) and twenty seven feet deep. The main stone section ofthis house is extremely similar to the addition to the Barent Nagel housewith the exception of the depth and the subsequent longer slope or “catslide” to the rear roof giving the appearance of a salt box design.The house was originally constructed to be a one room dwelling, andshares nearly all the same exterior front facade features as that of the Bar-ent Nagel addition. The similarities are so close that one may be lead tothink that one is a copy of the other. Of interesting note are some of theunique architectural features found in the photographic record of the JohnNagel house – the vaulted stone arch cellar entryway in the front stonewall, the third and smaller gable window, and the bracketed drip edgealong the east gable.

The earliest portion of the house was built shortly after1710. The house stood on the north side of Harvard Street(at about the location of today’s 21 Harvard Street), which isa short distance west of the John Nagel house (75 HarvardStreet). It was situated facing south, as was the tradition.The Barent Nagel house was constructed in two sections,the westerly portion (foreground in the photo) being the ear-liest, and the larger, taller section to the east a later addi-tion.The house is known only through six photographs that re-veal one of only a small handful of identified pre-Revolution-ary War houses in Bergen County. The vast majority of earlystone houses in Bergen County were built just after the Rev-olution. Although representative of the emerging JerseyDutch building style, the architectural style of the early sec-tion of the Barent Nagel house is more akin to a vernacularmedieval structure. This photo was taken in 1901.

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This is the earliest map showing de-tail of today’s Closter. Six houseswithin the Borough of Closter arenoted – two on Harvard Street, threeon Hickory Lane, and one onBlanch Avenue (see detail below).The legend on the map states:“By the request of Resolvert Nageland John Nagel have Surveyed aTract of Land Sectuate lying andbeing in Orange County on the WestSide of Hudsons River which saidTract of Land was formerly Con-firmed to one George Lockhart andis now belonging to Henry Ludlowand Mary his Wife &c.Beginning at a White Oak Tree uponthe hill by Hudsons River marktwith Three Natches a Cross and theLetter L And runs from Thence . . . .. . . to a markt Tree by Tappan River,are the Words of the Confirmation,but the Said Course will not hit thesaid River but falls South of theSouthermost part of the said TappanRiver running East . . . . . to the SaidTappan River thence Down alongthe Said River as it runs to HudsonsRiver . . . . . . Thence down along thesaid River as it runs to the placewhere it first begunContaining four Thousand One hundred and Seventy five Acres . . . . . . . Deducting one Moiety of the Salt Meadow and allowing five PCt forhighways their will remain Three Thousand Eight hundred and Eightyseven Acres and Thirtysix perches The Which Said Survey was actuallyperformed the 19th Day of June 1745 by Philip Verplanck Survayr”

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ment, dating back to 1745 when only a few houses stood. Prominent citizens of Closter are described alongside their por-traits, and images of Closter through the years capture itscharm: The downtown main street has changed little over theyears, although the modes of transportation certainly have! Didyou know that Closter has had a diner in the same locationsince the 1930’s, and that it originally stayed open 24 hours?A 1960’s photo of an earlier version of that diner is on display.The opening of the Closter Swim Club in 1959 certainly madea splash! Check out the Closter Theatre, which opened in1963 with “hi-fi stereophonic sound.” Here are some fun facts discovered during the research phaseof this project: • 1840: two blacksmiths, four sawmills, and four gristmills inCloster • 1865: Commute to New York City by train was 58 minutes • 1897: The Buzzonis were the first Italian family in Closter • 1901: Electric street lights installed • 1904: Closter became a Borough • 1908: A Closter girl’s basketball team beat Englewood, 17-9 • 1910: August E. Robst raised rare prizewinning pigeons onBogert Street

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continued on page 17

• 1920: The Closter quarry at the end of Gilleta Place closedand Main Street was paved.• 1928: The Closter Girl Scouts was formed• 1939: The Closter Lion’s Club was formed. • 1946:The first Closter High School football team played• 1956: Closter had 1,693 houses and 641 dogs • The last Northern Valley passenger train pulled out of the sta-

tion. Many Closter citizens have contributed to this effort, and weextend an invitation to anyone wising to share their treasuresto please contact us and we will add copies to the wall. For more information about Closter’s history visitwww.closterhistoricpreservation .org. For information aboutlibrary hours, visit closter.bccls.org.

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CLOSTER – William Brewster retired as Police Chief in1990. But looking back on his career, takes us to 1958when he was first sworn in as a patrolman.Over the next 52 years, he would work his way up tochief, rescuing a child pinned under a garage door anddelivering a baby along the way. He was appointed po-lice chief in 1986..Born in Closter in 1932, Mr. Brewster joined the policeforce after being in the military police in the service.Having experience in the military police afforded Mr.Brewster the opportunity to join the police department inCloster. He graduated from East Stroudsburg TeachersCollege in East Stroudsburg, Pa Mr. Brewster received a life saving award in 1973 for asaving a child who was pinned under a closed garagedoor in Norwood. Mr. Brewster revived the child withthe then Chief of Police Chief John Lindemann.In the 1970’s, when doctors were still making housecalls, Mr. Brewster assisted in a childbirth before thedoctor arrived.The police department, housed in borough hall, was ren-ovated around 1982 with the addition of 4 or 5 rooms.

The department was expanded after the fire departmenthad moved to another location. The ‘new’ facility has amodernized interior. During the time Mr. Brewster was a police officer, thefirst computer was installed in the department to keep allthe files together. According to Mr. Brewster, Closterwas one of the first towns to have a computer.

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Years before he would become police chief, WilliamBrewster lines up with fellow officers – probably1959 or 1960 – for a portrait. Officer Brewster is thirdfrom right in front row.

Former Police Chiefcontinued from page 18The police force more than doubled in size along

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This photo of Abraham I. Auryansen (born in 1822) was taken in front of the Resolvert Nagel House at 119 Hickory Lane. After 170 years of family ownership, Abraham soldthe homestead, but reserved the cemetery and an access lane for the family’s use. Abraham’s great-great-grandson, John, was the last person buried in the Nagel /Auryansen Cemetery. The old dirt road section of the former path of Hickory Lane is still evident on the lawn of the house today. On the far right of the photo are two uniden-tified dwellings in the distance; these two structures were not known to have existed until this photo was cleaned up and enlarged.On the 1745 Verplanck map there are three houses on what is now Hickory Lane labeled #13 and they are noted as “Resolvert Nagel’s houses.” The map shows three housesin a row running east to west, the little drawings of all the houses on the map apparently are just representative images drawn by the cartographer to note the general locationof all the houses but not as to be completely accurate as to any of their actual architectural designs. On needs to remember the point of the Verplanck map was to definethe disputed property line between the Nagel land and that of Lockhart patent land, and the homes of the Nagel brothers were placed only for reference. Of note also is thatthe course of the Dwars Kill is shown to be running south west near the Nagel houses when in fact it runs north west, again the placement of features on the map forgeneral reference. What we can know for sure from the map is the number of houses, the general location of the houses, and the name of the owners. Two of ResolvertNagel’s houses still stand, and the third although completely rebuilt nevertheless can be somewhat recognizable as the location of the early house shown on the 1745 map– the sites of the three houses are located at 119 Hickory Lane, 80 Hickory Lane, and 96 Bradley Place.The first house of Resolvert Nagel located at 119 Hickory Lane is known on the National Record of Historic Places as the “Henry Naugle House,” Henry Naugle though wasnot associated with the house until 1861 so that name given to the house confuses the true history of the house. Patricia Garbe-Morillo in her book Closter and Alpine rightlyidentifies the house as “The Resolvert Naugle Homestead” which is more correct. Though the 1735 construction date which is attributed to the house is probably incorrect,the 1735 date stated in the National Register application references the 1941 book Bergen County Panorama which calls it the “Naugle-Aureyonson” house, the name ismost likely correct, but the date of 1735 would have left Resolvert Nagel “homeless” for twenty five years (unless he lived in one of the other two houses on the Verplanckmap which is possible). The Bergen County Panorama does not give an actual source for its information, but a way to determine a strong probable date for constructionis to perform a dendrochronology study of the beams within a house (the tree rings in the beams are studied to determine the date that the tree was felled). Perhaps in thefuture such a study will be performed on the Nagel houses and firmer dates can be attributed to them.

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The next “Resolvert Nagel house” still standing is located at 80 Hickory Lane, and is commonly known as The Isaac Naugle house.Isaac Naugle was not the builder of the house per say, what is more correct is to say he was the “enlarger” of the house. The currentstone house with its double front doors and four room design revels upon close examination an original very early 18th century oneroom house in one corner that is encapsulated on two sides and roof by a later 18th century addition. The addition enlarged the oneroom house into four rooms and took a small garret within a simple two sloped roof, and created a near full second story with the construction of a gambrel roof.How Isaac Nagel acquired the house and how his name became associated with it is easy to explain, although Rosaile Fellows Baileyin her book Pre Revolutionary Dutch Houses gives a rather convoluted story (what is commonly called “The Bailey Book” is reallyonly reliable for its photographs) and part of that story is repeated in the National Register application for the house. The simple factsare that Isaac Naugle (grandson of Barent Nagel) married Maria Auryansen the granddaughter of Resolvert Nagel prior to 1776. Resolvert Nagel had seven daughters and the eldest Cornelia married Aury Auryansen and the lands of Resolvert Nagel were passeddown through the Auryansen family. The marriage of Isaac Naugle to Maria Auryansen each a cousin to each other kept the lands “inthe family.” The original portion of the house was a one room structure about twenty feet square, and evidence of the early pre 1745structure is easily seen. The south west corner of the first floor and corresponding section of cellar of the current structure is theoriginal section of the house. In the southern half of the cellar (directly in the center) is a pair of first floor beams running parallel toone another which is a direct evidence of the two sections of the house. The westerly beam was the last beam directly inside the for-mer east stone wall of the original one room house. When the house was expanded the original east stone wall was removed and thecurrent easterly beam was placed next to the original beam to support the new section of floor without disturbing the older section.Evident in the section of the front stone wall between the two entry doors is a “break” in the line of the stone work indicating the original south east corner of the original house. This variation in the stone work lines up with the location of the two parallel beams inthe basement, clearly the original house was not taken down but altered. The architectural evidence suggests that the house was enlarged shortly after the Revolution.

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