Grove Street Cemetery

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Grove Street Cemetery
(U.S. National Historic Landmark)
The Egyptian Revival entry gateway
The Egyptian Revival entry gateway
Location: New Haven, Connecticut
Area: 18 acres
Built/Founded: 1796
Architect: Augur, Hezekiah; Austin, Henry
Architectural style(s): Egyptian Revival, Gothic Revival
Designated as NHL: February 16, 2000[1]
Added to NRHP: August 08, 1997[2]
NRHP Reference#: 97000830
Governing body: Private

Grove Street Cemetery or Grove Street Burial Ground in New Haven, Connecticut is located in the center of the Yale University campus. It was organized in 1796 as the New Haven Burying Ground and incorporated in October 1797 to replace the crowded burial ground on the New Haven Green. It was one of the earliest burial grounds to be laid out with plots permanently owned by individual families. Many Yale presidents and New Haven politicians are buried here, as is Roger Sherman, the first mayor of New Haven and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, and U.S. Constitution.

Initially consisting of six acres (24,000 m²), it has been expanded to nearly 18 acres (73,000 m²). The entrance on Grove Street is a brownstone Egyptian Revival gateway, designed by Henry Austin, and built in 1845. The lintel of the gateway is inscribed "The Dead Shall Be Raised." The concluding period has been called the most eloquent and sublime piece of punctuation in stone. The quotation is a reference to 1 Corinthians 15.52: "in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we will be changed." The oft-recounted (and likely apocryphal) response of many presidents of Yale is, in substance, "They certainly will be, if Yale needs the property."

Immediately inside the gate is a Victorian chapel, now used as an office. The perimeter of the cemetery was surrounded by an eight foot (2.4 m) stone wall in 1848-49.

The gravestones from the New Haven Green (but not the remains) were moved here for preservation in 1821 and are displayed against the walls of the cemetery.

The Grove Street Cemetery was designated a National Historic Landmark by the United States Secretary of the Interior in 2000.[1][3][4]

It is managed by Camco Cemetery Management.

[edit] Notable burials

Monument to Glenn Miller
Monument to Glenn Miller
South side of Eli Whitney monument
South side of Eli Whitney monument
North side of Eli Whitney monument
North side of Eli Whitney monument
Grave of Noah Webster
Grave of Noah Webster

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Grove Street Cemetery. National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved on 2007-10-03.
  2. ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).
  3. ^ [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Text/97000830.pdf "Grove Street Cemetery / New Haven City Burial Ground", September 29, 1999, by Bruce Clouette]PDF (142 KiB) National Historic Landmark Nomination]. National Park Service (1999-09-29).
  4. ^ [http://pdfhost.focus.nps.gov/docs/NHLS/Photos/97000830.pdf Grove Street Cemetery / New Haven City Burial Ground--Accompanying 32 photos, from 1997 and undated.]PDF (5.03 MiB) National Historic Landmark Nomination]. National Park Service (1999-09-29).
  5. ^ The Grove Street Bulletin, vol. 1, no. 4, 2005

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