Prospect Cemetery

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Prospect Cemetery is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is a designated New York City landmark. It is the oldest family burial ground in Queens and one of the oldest in the five boroughs. Founded in 1668, its markers date from 1728 and comprise a collection of eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century gravestones. They provide a wealth of information about the social and religious customs of local settlers and their descendants. Revolutionary war soldiers are buried there, along with the most famous colonial families of Queens, including Sutphin, Van Wyck, and Brinkerhoff.

Nicholas Ludlum commissioned the building of the Chapel of Three Sisters, a memorial to his three deceased daughters, at the eastern end of the graveyard in 1857. The Chapel is a symmetrical, one-story Romanesque Revival building, approximately 40 by 40 feet, and 25 feet high. At each of the northern and southern facades there is one large stained-glass rose window.

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