The E.K.Lincoln Studio was built in 1915 in Grantwood on
Bergen Boulevard[20] and was owned and operated by
E.K. Lincoln, who was both an actor and movie maker. Many in the early film world worked out of this studio and used various spots in the area for location work.[21] The first production was The Fighting Chance in which Lincoln starred alongside
Violet Horner[22] (who also starred in The Girl from Alaska). Between 1916 and 1917, the studio was rented by
Fox Film.[23] In 1920 the United States Photoplay Corporation used it for the film Determination. In 1923, Peter Jones produced the film How High Is Up?.[24][25] According to
Film Daily (June 1926), the first episode of The Leather Pushers (1922) with
Reginald Denny was filmed there. After World War I, many movie makers, including Lincoln, headed out to Hollywood where the climate enable them to film outdoors all year round. After
talkies came into being in 1927, the studio continued to be used to make Italian and Polish language films. By the end of the Depression, the studio was no longer for film production. The building burnt down the 1960s.[12]
^Gargiulo, Vince.
Palisades Amusement Park: A Century of Fond Memories, p. 8. Lulu.com, 2006.
ISBN1-4116-6188-5. "Knox was a real-estate developer, widely known around the area, who had named a section of Cliffside Park 'Grantwood' because of its location directly across the Hudson River from Grant's Tomb."
^"Homes on the Palisades", The New York Times, September 4, 1910. Accessed August 22, 2023. "The section of the Palisades immediately at the other side of the 130th Street ferry is really the gateway of a vast area which in a very short time is bound to develop into a sort of metropolitan annex. with Edgewater at the foot of the cliffs, Grantwood at the summit, and Morsemere on the western slope."