• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to footer

Preservation New Jersey

Promoting the economic vitality, sustainability, and heritage of New Jersey’s diverse communities through advocacy and education.

  • About
    • About Us
    • Board of Directors
    • Staff
  • Programs
    • Building Industry Network
      • BIN Resource Directory
      • Renew/Join
    • Educational Programs
    • Awards Celebration
  • 10 Most
    • About the 10 Most Endangered Places
      • Nominate an Endangered Place
  • News
    • PNJ Newsletter
    • PNJ in the News
    • Advocacy
      • Historic Tax Credits
    • Events
  • Support Us
    • Membership
      • Individual
      • Business/Organization
    • Donate
    • PNJ Supporters
    • Volunteer
  • Contact

Lorentz Kleiser Home

September 4, 2017 by

Year Listed: 2006
Status: Lost Forever
City: Edgewater
County: Bergen

Additional Features:


UPDATES:
The Kleiser house was demolished in December 2007 by the owner who intends to construct 3 houses on the lot. Please visit http://www.edgewaterunited.com/kleiser.html for information.

DESCRIPTION:
Lorentz Kleiser, an internationally recognized painter, and designer was the founder of Edgewater Tapestry Looms, an important mill that, between 1911 and 1933, produced tapestries for state capitals, museums, hotels, and other venues. Kleiser also helped prepare and hang the famed Unicorn Tapestries at the Cloisters in New York City.

Kleiser’s home is a striking Arts and Crafts style building whose lower two floors consist entirely of rough stone. There have been some alterations to the original fabric, but the house retains much of its original integrity.

Stone houses such as this, built with local diabase stone from the Palisades scarp give this part of Edgewater its rugged architectural character: a town set into the cliffs. But development pressures are a threat. The current owner, a prominent builder who rents the house to tenants, has twice announced plans to tear this building down and put up something larger, though he has no active plans. There is no preservation ordinance or historic advisory committee to protect such properties in the town.

PNJ encourages the Town Council to consider establishing a preservation ordinance because safeguarding the Kleiser home and similar properties are vital to the preserving the character of Edgewater.

CONTACT:
Evan Johnson
evanviolin@earthlink.net
201-886-8741

Footer

STAY UP TO DATE

Sign up to receive free updates.

  • Facebook
  • Flickr
  • Instagram
  • LinkedIn
  • Twitter

Search Our Site!

Tags

10 most 10Most 2021 Accessibility AIA Annual Meeting Architectural Details architecture Awards Brick Camden Cape May celebration Cumberland docomomo events Exterior Envelope Façade Restoration Gala historic Historic Sites Council HTC Hudson Masonry meeting modern Morris Murphy new jersey news Passaic Preservation preservation awards roebling Roofing Slate Structural Repair Sustainability Sustainable Construction tour Traditional Construction trenton Warren Wood Woodstown
  • About Us
  • Membership
  • Volunteer
  • Contact Us

Web Designer © 2023 Preservation New Jersey