When it was founded in , the cemetery covered acres. It was set on a landscape of glacial moraines that are responsible for its hilly topography, including Battle Hill the highest point in Brooklyn , an important site of action during the Battle of Long Island during the Revolutionary War. The cemetery was expanded multiple times. The first addition was in for an additional 65 acres at the southwest corner, and in another 85 acres was annexed from Flatbush, which at the time was a separate village.
The last 23 acres were added in The famous Gothic-style gates of the cemetery entrance were designated a New York City landmark in , and the Weir Greenhouse was designated in Just inside the gates is the chapel, built between and by Warren and Wetmore. Some tours of Green-Wood Cemetery will take you inside the catacombs, a group mausoleum with 30 vaults that is lit up inside by skylights.
After the war ended, a foot-tall Civil War Soldiers Monument was erected. A particularly ornate Victorian mausoleum belongs to Charlotte Canda, who was a young debutante who died in a horse carriage accident. It stretches between 21st and 37th Streets from 5th to 9th Avenues. The main entrance is at Fifth Avenue and 25th Street, and there are three other entrances. Hours vary by season and by entrance so check the website. The nearest subway stop is the R train at the 25th Street station.
Free parking is available if you decide to drive. Admission is free. Jogging and recreational activities are not allowed and pets are not permitted even though it feels just like a park! The Original Section of Greenwood Cemetery portrays this perfectly. The roads there are winding, hilly, and follow the landscape. This is a typical characteristic of the rural cemetery movement. In contrast, the roads in the newer sections of Greenwood Cemetery are squared off around the blocks and sections, resembling a typical city block.
Whereas the old churchyard had become overcrowded to the point where there was no visible order, in the crooked and sporadically placed tombstones, the new rural cemeteries used nature as an important factor in their creation. Many rural cemeteries are placed among huge shade trees. This phenomenon is another sign of the rural cemetery movement. Visitors to these new rural cemeteries, especially in the case of Mount Auburn, included not only the families of loved ones buried in the cemetery, but also those wanting to experience the peacefulness and serenity of a beautiful park.
Tombstones became a form of art themselves. Masons and sculptors began to use the tombstone as a medium through which to express their artistic abilities.
The success of rural cemeteries also stimulated the public parks movement and the profession of landscape architecture. The next two stages in the evolution of the American cemetery was a direct result of the rural cemetery movement.
People enjoyed the natural aspects the rural cemetery movement offered so much that many public parks were created.
In this era, cemeteries became not only places of mourning, but also places for pleasant strolls. Whereas the rural cemetery contained various paths, fenced off family plots, and often times a large iron fence and gate surrounding it, the promoters of the later stages foresaw a different image. The second stage of cemetery evolution encompasses the lawn cemetery, and the third stage is called the memorial park cemetery.
The lawn cemetery stage encompassed most of the late 19th century. The memorial park stage and its unique characteristics came into use in the early 20th century. Promoters of the lawn cemetery envisioned an open green grassy lawn as the ideal cemetery. Instead of walking along paths to the site of a grave, visitors now crossed the green sod that covered the grounds. This is a common characteristic of the newer areas of cemeteries across America. In the early 20th century imbedded tombstones were introduced as an option to upright headstones.
Many cemeteries today have sections limited to these imbedded stones. The memorial park has most of the characteristics of the lawn cemetery stage, but requires the imbedded markers characteristic to it and forbids traditional family headstones. It has been long claimed that this type of cemetery is easier to care for.
The family then has the option to re-set the stone if they wish, but the cost is nearly equal to putting in a new one. Other than those blocks, Greenwood Cemetery allows the family to place any acceptable style of memorial in the other areas.
Many older cemeteries still in use across America have features from each period, as does Greenwood Cemetery. In the Original Section of Greenwood Cemetery, to the northeast, one can see the influence and images of the rural cemetery movement. The older areas of Greenwood Cemetery have the air of an oak grove. With its location on the slopes of bluffs overlooking the Cedar River, its large oaks and winding roads, it is easy to see the influence of the rural cemetery movement.
As Greenwood Cemetery expanded, the ideals of the lawn and memorial park cemetery movements were utilized. The more recently purchased areas, encompassing the western and southern edges of the cemetery, are relatively flat. The trees that dominate the older sections are here fewer and smaller. These sections, along with imbedded stone section mentioned previously, are examples of the second stage. The history of Greenwood Cemetery dates back to around Each family owned land on the hillside and buried their kin in family plots there.
In the eastern United States the first cemeteries were churchyards before the development of the rural cemetery movement.
Greenwood Cemetery and many other pioneer cemeteries in Midwestern towns originated as family plots. The Overmans came here from Ohio, and purchased land from pioneer William Sturgis, and built a mill on the Cedar River.
The Mularky family also owned private land along the bluffs near the Overman Cemetery, and developed it as their family burial ground. The earliest burial of the Mularky clan was William Mularky in After the most desirable lots were sold, it was taken over by the city and incorporated as the First Addition to Greenwood Cemetery.
The cemetery continued to expand in the years following its first two acquisitions. The trend of development was to the west and south, away from the bluffs, but keeping to the remaining naturally timbered slopes of the Overman Cemetery. The earliest burial of the Wild family was of Daniel Wild on February 4, The Wilds are buried in the southwest corner of what is today Block 1 of the Second Addition.
After some years of private ownership the Wild land was purchased by the city and added as the Second Addition to Greenwood Cemetery. The northwest portion of the cemetery was named St. It was named St. Catholics are buried in consecrated land and originally developed separate cemeteries. Today all of Greenwood has been blessed. In , all cemeteries under the control of the Catholic Church became separate corporations.
It is during the incorporation that the name was changed to St. In June the land was deeded to the city. Greenwood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana. The cemetery was opened in , and is located on City Park Avenue formerly Metairie Road in the Navarre neighborhood. The cemetery has a number of impressive monuments and sculptures. Notables interred here include: Tomb of hundreds of unknown Confederate soldiers.
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