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Green-Wood Cemetery

Chapel in Green-Wood

Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, several blocks east of Prospect Park. In the New York Times it was said to be the "ambition of the New Yorker to live upon the Fifth Avenue, to take his airings in the Central Park, and to sleep with his fathers in Green-Wood". Inspired by Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, overlooking Boston, it was the idea of Henry Pierrepoint. It was a popular Swarovski tourist attraction in the 1850s and was the place most famous New Yorkers who died during the second half of the nineteenth century were buried. It is still an operating cemetery with approximately 600,000 graves. The rolling hills and dales, several ponds and an on-site chapel provide an environment that still draws visitors. On weekends cars are allowed on cemetery grounds. There are several famous monuments located there, including a statue of DeWitt Clinton and a Civil War Memorial.

Notables buried at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York:

Albert Anastasia, (1903 - 1957) mobster, "Lord High Executioner" for "Murder Inc."

Othniel Boaz Askew (1972 - 2003) politician, assassin of James E. Davis. (cremated)

Jean-Michel Basquiat, artist

Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887) - abolitionist

James Gordon Bennett, Sr. (1795-1872), founder/publisher of the New York Herald

Henry Bergh (1818 - 1888) - founder of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990) - composer, conductor

Samuel Blatchford - US Supreme Court Justice

Henry Chadwick (memorial), Baseball Hall of Fame member

DeWitt Clinton - unsuccessful US presidential candidate 1812; US Senator from New York; seventh and ninth Governor of New York

Peter Cooper (1791-1883) - inventor, manufacturer, abolitionist, founder of Cooper Union

Mausoleums in Green-Wood

Nathaniel Currier (1813 - 1888) - artist ("Currier and Ives")

James E. Davis (1962 - 2003) - assassinated City Councilman, was buried here for a few days, near a mausoleum containing the ashes of his assassin: On August 3, 2003, his family had his body exhumed and reintered in the Cemetery of the Evergreens.

Charles Ebbets (1859 - 1925) - baseball team (Brooklyn Dodgers) owner; built Ebbets Field

Charles Feltman (1841 - 1910) - claimed to be the first person to put a hot dog on a bun

Joey Gallo (1929 - 1972) - mobster

Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829 - 1869) - composer

Horace Greeley (1811 - 1872) - unsuccessful US presidential candidate 1872; founder of the New York Tribune

Florence La Badie, (1888-1917) - actress

William S. Hart - star of silent "Western" movies

Thomas Hastings (1784 - 1872) - wrote the music to the hymn "Rock of Ages"

Elias Howe - invented the sewing machine

Walter Hunt (1785 - 1869) - invented the safety pin

James M. Ives (1824 - 1895) - artist ("Currier and Ives")

Laura Keene - actress (on stage when Lincoln was shot)

Brockholst Livingston - US Supreme Court Justice

William Livingston - signer of the US Constitution; first Governor of New Jersey

Pierre Lorillard (1833 - 1901) - inventor of the tuxedo

Lola Montez (1821 - 1861) - actress; mistress of many notable men

Samuel F.B. Morse - invented the telegraph

James Kirke Paulding - U.S. Secretary of the Navy under Martin Van Buren; thought to be "author" of "Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers", although it had already been published in children's primers in Britain as early as 1813.

Samuel Reid (1783 - 1861) - said to have designed the US flag

Graves in Green-Wood

Bill Poole - His character was portrayed by Daniel Day-Lewis in the motion picture Gangs of New York

Alice Roosevelt (1861 - 1884) - first wife of US President Theodore Roosevelt

Martha Bulloch Roosevelt (1834 - 1884) - mother of US President Theodore Roosevelt

Robert Roosevelt - uncle of US President Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. - father of US President Theodore Roosevelt

Margaret Sanger (1879 - 1966) - birth control advocate

Ira Sankey (1840 - 1908) - hymn composer

F.A.O. Schwarz (Frederick Augustus Otto Schwarz) (1836 - 1911) - toy store founder

Henry Steinway (1797 - 1871) - founder of Steinway & Sons, piano manufacturers

William Steinway (1836 - 1896) - son of Henry Steinway, and founder of Steinway, New York

Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848 - 1933) - artist

William March "Boss" Tweed (1823 - 1878) - notorious New York politician

Frank Morgan Wupperman (1890 - 1949) - played the character of the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz.

Not only the appearance, but most of all the contents in a curio cabinet, collectors cabinet, display cabinet and display showcase are displayed and put into view in a very special way.

Swarovski

External link

official web site (http://www.green-wood.com/)