Cemetery of the Evergreens

The Evergreens Cemetery
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Southern (Bushwick Avenue) entrance
Cemetery of the Evergreens is located in New York City
Cemetery of the Evergreens
Cemetery of the Evergreens is located in New York
Cemetery of the Evergreens
Cemetery of the Evergreens is located in the United States
Cemetery of the Evergreens
Location1629 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn, New York
Coordinates40°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
Area225 acres (91 ha)
Built1849
ArchitectVaux, Calvert; etc
NRHP reference No.07001192
Added to NRHPNovember 15, 2007

The Cemetery of the Evergreens, also called The Evergreens Cemetery, is a non-denominational rural cemetery along the Cemetery Belt in Brooklyn and Queens, New York. 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. Today, the Evergreens is the final resting place of more than 526,000 people.

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. Cypress Hills Cemetery lies to its northeast.

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 six victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of March 25, 1911 who were unidentified for nearly a century. In 2011, Michael Hirsch, a historian, completed four years of research that identified these victims by name (see § Group monument).

There are also seventeen British Commonwealth service personnel buried in the cemetery: thirteen from World War I and four from World War II.

The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 2007.

Notable burials

Individual graves

Adelaide Hall's grave at Cemetery of the Evergreens

Group monument

  • Triangle Shirtwaist fire – the bodies of six victims of the 1911 fire to be identified were buried under a monument of a kneeling woman. They could not be identified after the inferno because they were burned beyond recognition, and had been buried without names. A century after the tragedy, in 2011, they were identified by historian Michael Hirsch as Maria Giuseppa Lauletti, Max Florin, Concetta Prestifilippo, Josephine Cammarata, Dora Evans, and Fannie Rosen.

See also


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