Cookie Jar House

Glendora, New Jersey, United States

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Reported in 2023 and December 2024 as a round, three-storey private home in Glendora, Gloucester Township, New Jersey, shaped like a cookie jar with a lid-like top. Sources give differing build dates; Urban Splatter said in December 2024 that it was originally envisioned as the prototype for similar houses.

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Site-level location · 39.8412° N, 75.0780° W

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Reports from 2023 and 2024 describe the Cookie Jar House in Glendora, in Gloucester Township, New Jersey, as a round house with a lid-like top. WPG Talk Radio (2023), quoting NJ.com, described three floors: storage and a bathroom at ground level, the living room and kitchen above, and two bedrooms at the top.

When it was built is unsettled. WOBM wrote in 2021 that it was built in 1947, 1949 or 1964; WPG gave around 1947 and Urban Splatter, in December 2024, 1949. The New Jersey Digest (2022) says developers planned a community of similar round houses and only this one was built; Urban Splatter says the same and calls the house the prototype.

Two stories attach to its shape. WOBM and WPG repeated a story that the original owner, a woman from Kansas, wanted a round house because tornadoes kept battering hers; legend also says it withstands an atomic blast, which WOBM described as unconfirmed. It appeared on HGTV's Offbeat America, according to WOBM.

It is a private home: WPG (2023) said it appeared to be occupied and asked readers not to knock, and the Digest suggests looking in autumn or winter, when the trees that screen it have lost their leaves.

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A private home on a residential street, seen from the public road only. Reports from 2021 and 2022 describe trees screening it and suggest autumn or winter for the best view. There are no tours or open houses; please respect the residents.

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Private residence in Glendora (Gloucester Township), New Jersey. View from the public street only; do not approach the door or enter the property.

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