See Inside: 1890s Ridgewood home selling for $2.1M had a long list of notable residents

A historic Ridgewood home along one of the village's more storied streets remains true to the Gilded Age.

Built in the 1890s and recently listed for sale with a $2.1 million price tag, 150 W. Ridgewood Ave. has the compulsory upgrades, said Jason Pierce, the listing agent with Prominent Properties Sotheby's International Realty.

Updates starting in the mid-2000s brought a whole-home water filtration system, radiant heat flooring and modern functionality to the Tudor revival's bathrooms, Pierce said. Yet the formal dining room highlights its history, with Bradbury & Bradbury wallpaper, ornate crown molding and solid hardwood flooring.

"This seller has prioritized restoration over renovation," Pierce said. "So, while she did a lot of upgrades, there was a heavy emphasis on keeping the original character and charm of the house."

Sitting on two-thirds of an acre, 150 W. Ridgewood is known in local historical records as the Gayler Clark House.

Charles J. Gayler, the first owner, was the son of a New York City assistant postmaster and the grandson of another Charles J. Gayler, a groundbreaking American safe maker who specialized in fireproofing. William L. Clark was an 1879 graduate of Columbia Law School and helped manage a massive silk dyeing conglomerate.

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Before moving to Ridgewood, Clark lived in Passaic, where he was a councilman in the 1890s and a vocal civic leader thereafter. A Paterson-born descendent of John Clark, a mechanic who in 1794 was summoned to the city's industrial sector from Scotland by Alexander Hamilton, he was also a descendent of Jacob Van Winkle, according to Clark's New York Times obituary. The latter arrived in the region from the Netherlands in 1635.

Clark bought the home in April 1924, Then, it was known as 424 W. Franklin Ave. It cost $40,000, The Ridgewood Herald reported. To settle his estate after his August 1938 death, Clark's family listed 150 W. Ridgewood at the cut-price rate of $12,500.

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The October 1939 listing in The Sunday News (Ridgewood, N.J.) said the property was "one of the finest of its type … ideally located in one of Ridgewood's long-established neighborhoods." The selling point remains, said Pierce. The home is about 300 yards from downtown Ridgewood and the train station.

Clad in off-white stucco with half-timber trim and balconies, the home has five bedrooms, five bathrooms and a sauna over four finished floors. There are a tiled roof, copper ceilings and an inground saltwater pool with a separate corner hot tub. A two-car detached garage has a finished loft.

Though not included in its name, two other notable residents owned 150 W. Ridgewood. Clark bought the home from Frederick S. Cowperthwait, a member of the Paterson Music Festival Association and the secretary of the National Silk Dyeing Company on East Main Street. Founded in 1908, the company would eventually merge with five other dye works, including four from Paterson, according to city records. Once fully formed, it was one of the nation's largest silk dyeing conglomerates.

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In the 1960s and early 1970s, William Weleck Jr. lived at 150 W. Ridgewood. Perhaps more influential in the molding of modern North Jersey than just about anyone, the Hackensack native was the vice president of the Alexander Summer Company, a real estate and brokerage firm with offices in Teaneck and Newark.

Weleck began his real estate career as a home builder. He remained a licensed real estate broker throughout his nearly 40-year career, according to his New York Times obituary. Still, Weleck's most notable jobs involved amassing significant tracts of land in Bergen County for development. Among them were the 150-acre tract for the Bergen Town Center shopping complex, the 200-acre Teterboro Industrial Terminal site and the 750-acre Meadowlands complex property. Weleck also helped create the footprint for Fort Lee's Horizon House, the first high-rise on the Palisades.

This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: Ridgewood house for sale for 2.1M had many notable owners since 1890s