The original parish house, with windows shaped to resemble the window behind the altar in the chapel, was opened on October 21, 1927.	The original chapel was constructed on land donated by Mr. Albert Leonhard and named St. Elizabeth's in honor of John the Baptist's mother and Mr. Leonhard's first wife.
The cornerstone of St. Elizabeth's Chapel was laid during a service conducted on October 22, 1922.	When St. Elizabeth's Chapel was dedicated on June 24, 1923, the procession originated at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Dunnington, 127 Fairmount Road, where the clergy and choir had vested.
The first Christmas at St. Elizabeth's Chapel, 1923.	On Palm Sunday in 1941, the stained glass window behind the altar was dedicated to the memory of the Rev. Charles Steele Armstrong.  This photograph was taken on Easter Sunday, 1948.
When the church was decorated for Christmas in 1956, construction on the addition was underway; so a wreath and roping dressed up the temporary plywood rear wall.	During the expansion of the church in 1956, the original back wall of the chapel (top photo) was dismantled stone by stone and moved to it's current location (indicated by the concrete block foundation in the bottom photo)
The new addition was dedicated and the cornerstone set on May 25, 1957.  The Rt. Rev. Benjamin M. Washburn, Bishop of Newark, set the cornerstone as the Rt. Rev. Leland Stark, Bishop Coadjutor, looked on.	After the addition had been completed, the nave looked much as it does today, minus the stained glass windows on the side aisles.  The pulpit and lectern were still within the chancel arch and on opposite sides from their present arrangement.
The flat-roofed addition connected the renovated parish hall with the enlarged church.	Before renovation (above) the rooms overlooking the auditorium were separated by partitions and were open to the auditorium below.  After construction (below) the spaces were enclosed.
The Rectors
Rev. Robert Thomson - St.Bartholomew's Church was established in Ho-Ho-Kus in 1914, with the Rev. Robert Thomson as Rector.  Subsequently, in 1922, he guided the parish during construction of St. Elizabeth's Chapel.  When St. Elizabeth's Church was established as a separate parish on January 1, 1927, he stayed at St. Bartholomew's to oversee construction of a new church building for that parish.  After his death three years later, the pulpit at St. Elizabeth's was dedicated to his memory.	Rev. Charles S. Armstrong - came to St. Elizabeth's from the rectorship of St. Matthew's Church in Jersey City.  Soon after beginning his ministry on February 22, 1927, he supervised construction of the original parish house, which was completed in October of that year.  He also guided the parish through the difficult years of the Great Depression, only to withdraw from his priestly duties when ill health precluded his continuing.  St. Elizabeth's beloved first Rector died on December 4, 1939.
Rev. George Nostrand - was only 28 when he became Rector of St. Elizabeth's in June 1940.  After the United States was drawn into World War II, the Rev. Nostrand started a newsletter for all St. Elizabeth's parishioners serving in the armed forces.  He and his family lived in St. Elizabeth's first rectory, at 614 Morningside Road.   On July 14, 1944, he left St. Elizabeth's to serve in the Chaplain Corp. of the U.S. Navy.	Rev. Alexander M. Rodger - St. Elizabeth's third Rector, the Rev. Alexander M. Rodger, began his twenty-seven-year tenure at St. Elizabeth's on December 1, 1944, after being called from the Church of the Atonement in Philadelphia.  In 1946 the mortgage of St. Elizabeth's church building was retired and the building consecrated.  In the 1950's, the parish purchased the current rectory and undertook a major construction project to enlarge the church and parish hall to serve its growing community of faith.  The Rev. Rodger also became active in national church affairs as secretary of the House of Bishops and registrar of the General Convention.
Rev. Richard B. Andersen - St. Elizabeth's welcomed the Rev. Richard B. Andersen as Rector on August 1, 1972.  He brought with him from Christ Church, Short Hills, the idea that the youth of St. Elizabeth's work annually with the youth of his former parish at an Episcopal mission in Puerto Rico.  He also instituted the annual Vestry retreat, helped the parish become acclimated to the 1976 Book of Common Prayer, and significantly improved the music program.  under his leadership the parish strengthened its commitment to stewardship, outreach, and pastoral care as it sought to define its Christian response to the issues of the day.	Rev. John G. Hartnett - The Rev. John Hartnett grew up in Webster Groves, Missouri and graduated from St. George's School in Newport, Rhode Island. In 1973 he received a degree in English and American Literature from Harvard College and worked in publishing in Manhattan from 1973 until joining St. James' Church on Madison Avenue as their Director of Communications in 1979. John received an M. Div. degree from Union Theological Seminary in 1987 and was ordained to the Diaconate by The Rt. Rev. Paul Moore of New York. In 1988 The Rt. Rev. Desmond Tutu ordained him to the Priesthood at the Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York City. John became the sixth Rector of St. Elizabeth's in January, 1993.