Green Mount Cemetery

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Green Mount Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Section T of the Green Mount Cemetery.
Section T of the Green Mount Cemetery.
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Built/Founded: 1839
Architect: Long,Robert Cary,Jr.; Et al.
Architectural style(s): Mixed (more Than 2 Styles From Different Periods), Gothic Revival
Added to NRHP: April 02, 1980
NRHP Reference#: 80001786[1]
Governing body: Private

Green Mount Cemetery is a historic cemetery located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Established in 1839, it is noted for the large number of historical figures that have been interred in its grounds as well as a large number of prominent Baltimore-area families. The name comes from one of the streets that border the cemetery, Greenmount Avenue. Green Mount is also a treasury of precious works of art, including striking works by major sculptors including William H. Rinehart and Hans Schuler.

The cemetery was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. Guided tours are available at various times of the year.

A Baltimore City Landmark plaque at the entrance reads:

"Green Mount Cemetery was dedicated in 1839 on the site of the former country estate of Robert Oliver. This was at the beginning of the 'rural cemetery movement'; Green Mount was Baltimore's first such rural cemetery and one of the first in the U.S. The movement began both as a response to the health hazard posed by overcrowded church graveyards, and as part of the larger Romantic movement of the mid-1800s, which glorified nature and appealed to emotions.
Green Mount reflects the romanticism of its age, not only by its very existence, but also by its buildings and sculpture. The gate way, designed by Robert Cary Long, Jr., and the hilltop chapel, designed by J. Rudolph Niernsee and J. Crawford Neilson, are Gothic Revival, a romantic style recalling medieval buildings remote in time.
Nearly 65,000 people are buried here, including the poet Syndey Lanier, philanthropists Johns Hopkins and Enoch Pratt, Napoleon Bonaparte's sister-in-law Betsy Patterson, John Wilkes Booth, and numerous military, political and business leaders."

[edit] Notable interments

Riggs Monument by Hans Schuler.
Riggs Monument by Hans Schuler.

[edit] References

  1. ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).

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