Category:Green-Wood Cemetery

English: Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 on the highest site in the City of Brooklyn to serve as a burial place for New Yorkers at a time when cemeteries in New York City (Manhattan) were nearing their capacity. It was designed by David Bates Douglas and was modeled after Pere Lachaise in Paris and Mount Auburn in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It became a fashionable burial place after the body of Governor DeWitt Clinton was transferred there from Abany and a bronze memorial for him designed by sculptor Henry Kirke Brown was raised.

The 478 acre cemetery's Gothic Revival entrance (1861) was designed by Richard M. Upjohn of Richard Upjohn and Sons and is a New York City landmark. Some 600,000 people are buried in Green-Wood, including Hezekiah Beers Pierrepont, Henry Ward Beecher, Nathaniel Currier and James Ives, Peter Cooper, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Samuel F. B. Morse, William "Boss" Tweed, Horace Greeley, James Gordon Bennett, Frank Morgan, Lola Montez, Fred Ebb, Leonard Bernstein, and more than 3,000 Civil War veterans. The cemetery was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2006. (Sources: Encyclopedia of New York City (2nd ed.), Guide to NYC Landmarks (4th ed.}, and AIA Guide to NYC (5th ed.)

This is a category about a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 97000228 (Wikidata).

Category:National Register of Historic Places with known IDs#%2097000228 Category:Uses of Wikidata Infobox
cementerio de Green-Wood; Green-Wood temető; Green-Wood hilerria; Cementiri Green Wood; Green-Wood Cemetery; Грын-Вуд; Գրին-Վուդ գերզմանոց; 绿荫公墓; Green-Wood Cemetery; Cimitirul Green-Wood; グリーンウッド墓地; Green-Wood Cemetery; בית הקברות גרינווד; 綠蔭公墓; Green-Woodin hautausmaa; tombejo Green-Wood; Green-Wood Cemetery; cimitero di Green-Wood; cimetière de Green-Wood; Грын-Вудзкія могілкі; Nghĩa trang Green-Wood; 그린-우드 공동묘지; Green-Wood Cemetery; Грин-Вуд; Green-Wood Cemetery; Green-Wood Cemetery; Green-Wood Cemetery; Mynwent Green-Wood; გრინ-ვუდის სასაფლაო; Green-Wood Cemetery; Green-Wood Cemetery; 綠蔭公墓; Green-Wood Mezarlığı; Гринвуд Сээмэтри; Green-Wood-begraafplaats; Qrin-Vud qəbiristanlığı; cemiterio de Green-Wood; مقبرة غرين-وود; Κοιμητήριο Γκριν-Γουντ; Грін-Вудський цвинтар; cimitir la Brooklyn, Kings County, New York; cemitério em Brooklyn, Kings County, Nova York; Marco Histórico Nacional; могілкі ў Нью-Ёрку; begravningsplats i Brooklyn, New York; Brooklyngo hilerria, New York; בית קברות בברוקלין, קינגס קואנטי, ניו יורק; begraafplaats in Brooklyn, Verenigde Staten van Amerika; Cementiri a Brooklyn, Nova York; cementerio en Brooklyn, Nueva York; Monumento Histórico Nacional; Friedhof im New Yorker Stadtteil Brooklyn; cemetery in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York; National Historic Landmark; cemiterio en Brooklyn, Nova York; tombejo en Broklino, Novjorko; pokopališče v Brooklynu (New York, ZDA; cimetière situé à Brooklyn, New York; Cementerio de Greenwood; Greenwood Cemetery; Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn; 格林伍德公墓; გრინ-ვუდი
Category:National Register of Historic Places with known IDs#%2097000228
Green-Wood Cemetery 
cemetery in Greenwood Heights, Brooklyn, Kings County, New York; National Historic Landmark
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  • rural cemetery
LocationBrooklyn, New York City, New York
Street address
  • 5th Avenue & 25th Street
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Inception
  • 1838
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Category:Uses of Wikidata Infobox with maps40° 39′ 08.68″ N, 73° 59′ 24.86″ W
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Wikidata Q239043
VIAF cluster ID: 123335366
Library of Congress authority ID: n98088093
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007578864505171
NRHP reference number: 97000228
OpenStreetMap relation ID: 10213172
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