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Woodlawn Cemetery
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| Location: | Webster Avenue and East 233rd Street The Bronx |
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| NRHP Reference#: | 11000563 |
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| Added to NRHP: | June 23, 2011 |
| Designated NHL: | June 23, 2011 |
Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City and is a designated National Historic Landmark.
A rural cemetery located in the Bronx, it opened in 1863,[1] in what was then southern Westchester County, in an area that was annexed to New York City in 1874.
The cemetery covers more than 400 acres (160 ha)[1] and is the resting place for more than 300,000 people. There is a memorial to the victims of the 1912 RMS Titanic disaster, called The Annie Bliss Titanic Victims Memorial. Built on rolling hills, its tree-lined roads lead to some unique memorials, some designed by McKim Mead & White, John Russell Pope, James Gamble Rogers, Cass Gilbert, Carrère and Hastings, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Beatrix Jones Farrand, and John LaFarge. As of 2007, plot prices at Woodlawn were reported as $200 per square foot, $4,800 for a gravesite for two, and up to $1.5 million for land to build a family mausoleum.[2]
In 2011, Woodlawn Cemetery was designated a National Historic Landmark, since it shows the transition from the rural cemetery popular at the time of its establishment to the more orderly 20th-century cemetery style.[3]
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Woodlawn was the destination for many human remains disinterred from cemeteries in more densely populated parts of New York City:[4]