Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx
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- This article refers to the Woodlawn Cemetery in the New York City borough of The Bronx. For other uses, see Woodlawn Cemetery (disambiguation).
Built on rolling hills, its tree-lined roads lead to quite unique memorials, some designed by McKim Mead & White, John Russell Pope, James Gamble Rogers, Cass Gilbert, Carerre & Hastings, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Beatrix Jones Farrand, and John LaFarge.
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.
Burials moved to Woodlawn
- The Dyckman-Nagle Burying Ground was established in 1677 and originally contained 417 plots. In 1905 the remains with the exception of Staats Morris and his family were removed. By 1927 the Morris graves were moved to Woodlawn Cemetery.
- West Farms Dutch Reformed Church at Boone Avenue and 172nd Street in the Bronx, New York had most of its graves moved to Woodlawn Cemetery.
- Bensonia Cemetery, aka Morrisania Cemetery, was originally an Indian Burial Ground. The graves were moved to Woodlawn Cemetery. PS138, in the Bronx, New York is now on the site.
- Rutgers Street church graves were moved to Woodlawn Cemetery.
Notable burials
- James C. Auchincloss
- Jules Bache
- Diana Barrymore
- Nora Bayes
- Charles Becker
- Alva Belmont
- Oliver Belmont
- Irving Berlin
- Nellie Bly
- Ralph Bunche
- Harry Carey
- Vernon and Irene Castle
- George M. Cohan
- Ricardo Cortez
- Celia Cruz
- Miles Davis
- Clarence Day
- Gertrude Ederle
- Duke Ellington
- David Farragut
- Bud Fisher
- Clyde Fitch
- Frankie Frisch
- Antoinette Perry Frueauff
- Thomas F. Gilroy
- Jay Gould
- Archibald Gracie
- Oscar Hammerstein, Sr.
- Lionel Hampton
- W.C. Handy
- Coleman Hawkins
- Harry Helmsley
- Victor Herbert
- Charles Evans Hughes
- Collis P. Huntington
- Barbara Hutton
- Augustus D. Juilliard
- James R. Keene
- Fiorello LaGuardia
- Frank Belknap Long
- Roland Macy
- Bat Masterson
- George McManus
- Gilbert Miller
- Herman Melville
- Marilyn Miller
- Robert Moses
- Thomas Nast
- Chauncey Olcott
- Blanche Oelrichs
- Felix Pappalardi
- James Cash Penney
- Otto Preminger
- Tito Puente
- Joseph Pulitzer
- Charles Ranhofer
- Damon Runyon
- Ruth Snyder
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Joseph Stella
- John William Sterling
- William L. Strong
- Olive Thomas
- C. J. Walker
- Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
- Harry Payne Whitney
- William Collins Whitney
- Edward O. Wolcott
- Frank Woolworth
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