It was started in May 1876, by a group of Englewood residents who purchased 6 acres (24,000 m2) of land for a cemetery.

[1][2][3] The property sits on the East side of Engle Street adjacent to Tenafly, New Jersey.

A chapel built with the local pink sandstone was erected on East Palisades Avenue and dedicated in March 1860.

[4] Mayor, and historian, Austin Nicholas Volk calls it: "One of the most beautiful cemeteries in Bergen County, New Jersey.

"[1] Schuyler Warmflash refers to is as an "outdoor museum" and he wrote "[The] change of attitude — which made sites devoted to the dead reassuringly pleasant to the living — is clearly manifest in Brookside Cemetery".