Woodlawn Cemetery (New York City, New York)

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Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City. It opened as a rural cemetery in 1863 out in "the country", in what was then southern Westchester County, which was annexed to New York City in 1874. The cemetery covers more than 400 acres and is the resting place for more than 300,000 people. Built on rolling hills, its tree-lined roads lead to some unique memorials, some designed by McKim Mead & White, John Russell Pope, James Gamble Rogers, Cass Gilbert, Carrère and Hastings, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Beatrix Jones Farrand, and John LaFarge. Notable burials include Edward S. Harkness, Oliver Belmont, Francis Garvan, Jay Gould, Joseph de Lamar, and Ellis L. Phillips.

In 1967, what is generally believed to be the first community mausoleum on the East Coast of the United States was built at Woodlawn. The concept has proved extremely popular, and as a result many other cemeteries throughout the United States have since added such structures.

East 233rd Street
New York, NY 10470
(718) 920-0500
www.thewoodlawncemetery.org/
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlawn_Cemetery,_Bronx
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Coordinates:   40°53'17"N   73°52'19"W

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  • Last resting places of Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Herman Melville, Irving Berlin, Celia Cruz, Lionel Hampton, W. C. Handy, Isidor and Ida Straus, Fiorello La Guardia, Barbara Hutton, among many, many others. A beautiful place for a walk any time of the year, this cemetery features many architecturally significant tombs and chapels, and notable specimen trees.
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