Greenwood Cemetery (Hamilton, Ohio)

Greenwood Cemetery is a registered historic district in Hamilton, Ohio, listed in the National Register of Historic Places on July 22, 1994. It contains 5 contributing buildings. Greenwood is designed in the style of a landscaped park and garden with mortuary art and statues among the graves.

This article is about the Greenwood Cemetery in Hamilton, Ohio. For other graveyards named Greenwood Cemetery, see Greenwood Cemetery (disambiguation).
Greenwood Cemetery
Greenwood Cemetery (Hamilton, Ohio) is located in Ohio
Greenwood Cemetery (Hamilton, Ohio)
Greenwood Cemetery (Hamilton, Ohio) is located in the United States
Greenwood Cemetery (Hamilton, Ohio)
LocationHamilton, Ohio
Coordinates39°24′11″N 84°32′32″W
Area695 acres (2.81 km2)
Architectural styleExotic Revival and Romanesque[1]
NRHP reference No.94000771[1]
Added to NRHP1994-07-22[1]

History

In 1848 the Greenwood Cemetery Association was created in order to establish a community cemetery. Land to create the cemetery was purchased from local resident David Bigham, and planned by Adolph Strauch. Greenwood Cemetery was modeled after Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston and Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati which had also been designed by Strauch.[2]

Prominent burials

Notes
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. June 30, 2007.
  2. "History". Greenwood Cemetery. Retrieved 29 November 2014.
  3. Wilson, Scott; Mank, Gregory W. (forward) (2016). "Combs, Ray #2581". Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons (3rd ed.). McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 978-0786479924. OCLC 948561021.

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