Grantwood, New Jersey
| Grantwood, New Jersey | |
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| Unincorporated community | |
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| Coordinates: 40°49′36″N 73°59′13″W / 40.82667°N 73.98694°WCoordinates: 40°49′36″N 73°59′13″W / 40.82667°N 73.98694°W | |
| County | Bergen |
| Boroughs | Cliffside Park, Ridgefield |
| Elevation | 269 ft (82 m) |
| Area code(s) | 201 |
| GNIS feature ID | 876712 |
Grantwood is an unincorporated community straddling the boroughs of Cliffside Park and Ridgefield, just south of Fort Lee, in eastern Bergen County, New Jersey, United States.
Grantwood Heights Land Company was incorporated on February 16, 1900 by Frank Knox. He bought land in the area, including what would later become Palisades Amusement Park. Grantwood was so dubbed in the beginning of the 20th century and takes its name from its location on the Hudson Palisades across the Hudson River from Grant's Tomb (40°48′48″N 73°57′47″W / 40.813333°N 73.963056°W) in Manhattan, New York City which was reached by 130th Street Ferry at Edgewater.
Grantwood was an artist's colony established in 1913 by Man Ray and Samuel Halpert and became the artistic center for a collective known as the "Others" group of artists. The colony consisted of a number of clapboard shacks on a bluff. Some names of the streets in this part of Ridgefield Heights — Sketch Place, Studio Road and Art Lane — pay homage to Grantwood's history. The first issue of The Glebe, a literary magazine, was published at the colony in 1913. In 1915, Alfred Kreymborg launched Others: A Magazine of the New Verse with Skipwith Cannell, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. Along with works of the founders it published work of Maxwell Bodenheim, Mina Loy, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, Carl Sandburg, among others.Walter Conrad Arensberg was influential in supporting the colony.
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