It has been used to record many albums released by jazz labels such as Blue Note, Prestige, Impulse!, Verve and CTI.

[6] From around 1952, beginning with a session led by Gil Melle that was sold to Blue Note, recordings were made by Van Gelder for commercial release in the living room of his parents' house at 25 Prospect Avenue in Hackensack, a house that had been built with the intention of doubling as a recording studio.

My father’s architect decided to accomplish this by making the living room ceiling higher than the rest of the house, which made for great acoustics."

[10] The new structure with a 39-foot ceiling[8] and fine acoustics, designed by the architect David Henken and inspired by the work of Frank Lloyd Wright,[11] resembles a chapel.

(1965), Stanley Turrentine's Cherry (1972) and Don't Mess with Mister T (1973), Andrew Hill's Point of Departure (1964), Freddie Hubbard's Red Clay (1970) and Hank Mobley's Soul Station (1960).

[14] For its significance in the history of jazz music, the Van Gelder Studio was entered in to the National Register of Historic Places on April 25, 2022.

The nomination was prepared by a group of historic preservationists, Peggy Norris, H. Michael Gelfand, and Jennifer Rothschild, and the music historian Ashley Kahn.