Forest Lawn Cemetery (Buffalo)

Forest Lawn Cemetery
Details
Established 1849
Location 1411 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, New York 14209
Country United States
Coordinates 42°55′51″N 78°51′39″W / 42.93083°N 78.86083°W / 42.93083; -78.86083
Type Public
Owned by Forest Lawn Group
Size 269 acres (~1 km²)
Number of graves 152,000
Website Forest Lawn.com
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Forest Lawn Cemetery
Location 1411 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, New York 14209
Architect Clarke, Charles E.; Earnshaw, Joseph
NRHP Reference # 90000688[1]
Added to NRHP May 10, 1990

Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York was founded in 1849 by Charles E. Clarke. It covers over 269 acres (1 km²) and over 152,000 are buried there, including U.S. President Millard Fillmore, singer Rick James, and inventor Lawrence Dale Bell. Forest Lawn is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Overview

Since its inception, Forest Lawn has served as a cemetery, park, arboretum, and outdoor museum. Monuments, mausoleums and sculptures have attracted visitors for over 150 years. The first sculpture of Seneca Indian chief Red Jacket was erected in 1851. Red Jacket is depicted wearing the richly embroidered scarlet coat presented to him by a British officer, while on his breast is displayed the large silver peace medal awarded to him by President George Washington.[2][3]

Every summer Forest Lawn offers "Sundays in the Cemetery" tours, each with a particular theme. Past examples have included the Pan-American Exposition Bus Tour, Forest Lawn History Bus Tour, Forest Lawn History Walk, African American Bus Tour, Civil War Bus Tour and the Forest Lawn Nature Walk.

Margaret L. Wendt Archive and Research Center

In 2014, the 3,140 square-foot[4] Margaret L. Wendt Archive and Resource Center opened within the cemetery. It is a digitized history center, of interment records maintained since 1849,[4] that features a number of interpretive displays highlighting the notable citizens buried in the cemetery. The building features climate controlled rooms and the design of the building mimics some of the historic structure that once stood at the same site.[5] The staff includes Sandy Starks (Interpretive Program Director), Chana Ravell Kotzin, PhD (Director of Archives Research & Scholarship), and Jessica Johnson (Curator & Director of Community Engagement).[5] Construction and funding for the Center was provided by The Margaret L. Wendt Foundation along with support from The John R. Oishei Foundation.[4]

Mausoleums

In 2004, Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1928 design for the Blue Sky Mausoleum was realized. The Mausoleum contains 24 crypts, which can be purchased and memorialized by individual owners. The Blue Sky Mausoleum is one of three Frank Lloyd Wright memorial sculptures in the world. Sculptor David P. Dowler created a Steuben Glass piece in a limited edition of 26, of which 24 are reserved for those who purchase crypts in the Mausoleum. Crypt clients also receive a copy of architectural historian Richard O. Reisem's book, Blue Sky Mausoleum of Frank Lloyd Wright (2005).

Other mausoleums in the cemetery include:

  • Burgess-Little Mausoleum – designed by H. H. (Henry Harrison) Little.
  • Butler Mausoleum – constructed for Edward H. Butler, proprietor of the Buffalo Evening News.
  • Buswell-Hochstetter Mausoleum
  • Good Mausoleum – constructed for Daniel B. Good, who established the Seibert-Good Company in Chicago, which later consolidated with the Seymour H. Knox stores of Buffalo, N.Y. and finally amalgamated with the F.W. Woolworth Company.
  • Goodyear (Frank) Mausoleum – constructed for Frank Henry Goodyear, who, with his brother, Charles W. Goodyear, started the Buffalo and Susquehanna Railroad.
  • Kellner Mausoleum – constructed for John. S. Kellner, president of the Crystal Ice and Storage Company.
  • Knox Mausoleum – constructed for Seymour H. Knox, co-founder of F. W. Woolworth Company.
  • Laub Mausoleum
  • Letchworth-Skinner Mausoleum –
  • Mitchel H. Mark Mausoleum – constructed for Mitchell Mark, founder of the Vitascope Theater Company
  • Oberkircher Mausoleum – constructed for Caroline Oberkircher and family.
  • Pierce (George) Mausoleum – constructed for George N. Pierce who co-founded a company known as Heinz, Pierce and Munshauer for the manufacture of refrigerators, birdcages, iceboxes and bathtubs, until leaving to establish the Pierce Cycle Company, which later became the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Co.
  • Stachura Mausoleum – constructed for Chester and Gloria Stachura.
  • Steuernagel Mausoleum – constructed for John Steuernagel, president and board chairman of Kleinhans department store.
  • Vars Mausoleum – designed by Lawrence Bley and Duane Lyman. Interred are Harry Thorp Vars, Gertrude Waltho Vars, Mary G. Vars, Addison Foster Vars, Addison F. Vars, Jr., Aline Vars, Carlton J. Balliett, Evelyn Waltho Balliett, Jr., Rose Waltho Brown, Bertha W. Barker, and Estelle Noell Reavis.
  • Walden-Myer Mausoleum – designed by Richard A. Waite for Buffalo’s mayor from 1838–39,[6] Ebenezer Walden, and son-in law, Albert J. Myer, recognized by many as the "founder and father" of the US Weather Bureau.[7]
  • Willams-Pratt Mausoleum

Gallery

Others buried here

References

  1. ↑ Staff (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. ↑ http://www.forest-lawn.com/Pages/about.html
  3. ↑ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)" (Searchable database). New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2016-05-01. Note: This includes John A. Bonafide (March 1990). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Forest Lawn Cemetery" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-01., Accompanying photographs, and Accompanying captions
  4. 1 2 3 Nussbaumer, Newell (November 19, 2013). "Forest Lawn’s Margaret L. Wendt Archive & Resource Center". Buffalo Rising. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  5. 1 2 Nussbaumer, Newell (September 20, 2014). "The Margaret L. Wendt Archive and Resource Center". Buffalo Rising. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  6. ↑ http://www.buffalonian.com/history/industry/mayors/Walden.htm
  7. ↑ http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/ajmyer.htm.
  8. ↑ Maine League of Historical Societies and Museums (1970). Doris A. Isaacson, ed. Maine: A Guide 'Down East'. Rockland, Me: Courier-Gazette, Inc. pp. 260–261.
  9. ↑ Mr. Spaulding and Greenback Resumption (1875, October 16). In The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (Vol. XXI, p. 358). New York, NY: William B. Dana.

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