Cemetery of the Evergreens

Evergreens Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Southern (Bushwick Avenue) entrance

Location	1629 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn, New York
Coordinates	40°41′2.0″N 73°54′4.3″W / 40.683889°N 73.901194°W / 40.683889; -73.901194Coordinates: 40°41′2.0″N 73°54′4.3″W / 40.683889°N 73.901194°W / 40.683889; -73.901194
Area	225 acres (91 ha)
Built	1849
Architect	Vaux, Calvert; etc
NRHP Reference #	07001192^[1]
Added to NRHP	November 15, 2007

The Cemetery of the Evergreens is a non-denominational cemetery in Brooklyn and Queens, New York, colloquially called Evergreen Cemetery. It was incorporated in 1849, not long after the passage of New York's Rural Cemetery Act spurred development of cemeteries outside Manhattan. For a time, it was the busiest cemetery in New York City; in 1929 there were 4,673 interments. The cemetery borders Brooklyn and Queens and covers 225 acres (0.91 km²) of rolling hills and gently sloping meadows. It features several thousand trees and flowering shrubs in a park-like setting. The Evergreens is the final resting place of more than 526,000 people.

History

The Evergreens was built on the principle of the rural cemetery. Two of the era's most noted landscape architects, Andrew Jackson Downing and Alexander Jackson Davis, were instrumental in the layout of the cemetery grounds.

The Evergreens has a monument to eight unidentified victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of March 25, 1911. In 2011, researchers were able to provide names to these last eight dead.^[2]

There are also 17 British Commonwealth service personnel buried in the cemetery, 13 from World War I and 4 from World War II.^[3]

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 2007.^[1] Cypress Hills Cemetery lies to its northwest.

Notable burials

Individual graves

John Bunny (1863–1915), actor
Anthony Comstock (1844–1915), censor (see Comstock Law)
Bill Dahlen (1870–1950), Major League Baseball player, one of the outstanding early 20th century players. Lies in an unmarked grave.
James E. Davis (1962–2003), New York City councilman (he was originally interred in Green-Wood Cemetery, but after it was realized that his assassin was also interred there, he was moved to the Cemetery of the Evergreens)
Effie Germon (1845 - 1914), Stage actress descended from the Germons of Baltimore, an old theatrical family
John D. Germon (1840 - 1901, Stage actor descended from the Germons of Baltimore, an old theatrical family; brother of Effie Germon
George Hall (1849–1923), Major League Baseball player, banned from baseball for life
Yusef Hawkins (1973-1989), murder victim
Martin Johnson Heade (1819–1904), artist
Lucille Hegamin (1894–1970), singer, female pioneer of the Blues
William Hickey (1927–1997), actor
Joseph Forsyth Johnson (1840–1906), landscape architect and great-grandfather of Bruce Forsyth
Walt Kelly (1913–1973), cartoonist
George H. Lindsay (1837–1916), congressman
- George W. Lindsay (1865-1938), congressman, his son
Winsor McCay (1872–1934), cartoonist and animated cartoon pioneer
Antonio "Tony" Pastor (1837–1908), vaudevillian
Julia Smitten Reinhardt (1844–1924), stage actress and suffragist
Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878–1949), tap dancer
Adelaide Hall (1901 - 1993), singer, actress, dancer, nightclub chanteuse
Stephen A. Rudd (1874–1936), congressman
Joseph Thuma Schenck (c. 1891-1930), vaudevillian, better known as "Joe" Schenck, of the comedy singing team Van and Schenck
William Steinitz (1836–1900), world chess champion
Bob Thiele (1922–1996), record producer
Amy Vanderbilt (1908–1974), journalist, etiquette authority
Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins (1849–1908), musician
Oscar Walker (1854–1889), Major League Baseball player
Lester Young (1909–1959), jazz musician
John William Warde (c.1912-1938), his widely publicized suicide inspired the movie Fourteen Hours.

Group monument

Triangle Shirtwaist fire - The bodies of eight victims of the 1911 fire lay in cemetery under a monument to the tragedy. These workers were identified later as Maria Giuseppa Lauletti, Max Florin, Concetta Prestifilippo, Josephine Cammarata, Dora Evans and Fannie Rosen.^[2]

References

1 2 Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
1 2 "The Fire That Changed Everything". The New York Times. February 22, 2011. Retrieved 2011-11-04.
↑ CWGC Cemetery Report. Breakdown obtained from casualty record.

External links

Evergreens Cemetery official home page

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