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Cemetery. When reconstructed there, it was turned around so that the original end is now south and the entrance is on the east, rather than west. Brookside Chapel, with its diamond-paned lancet windows is the purest example of early ecclesiastic Gothic
Revival architecture in the city and one of the finest 19th Century buildings in Englewood.
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Built of random coursed rough-hewn red sandstone ashlar, the chapel was twice enlarged at its original location. The 1865 addition was built of wood on the east side of the south end. In 1877, before the construction of the
Vermilye Memorial Chapel, the building was dismantled and moved to Brookside
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Brookside Cemetery,
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Brookside Cemetery as its Superintendent, from the date of its organization, and still holds that position, as well as being
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of 200. The congregation grew and a new, larger church to accommodate 800 people was built in 1880. In 1887, the chapel was donated to
Brookside Cemetery, and moved – stone by stone – to its present site near the entrance gate to the east side of the
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