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Graceland Cemetery is a large historic garden cemetery located in the north side community area of Uptown, in Chicago, Illinois, United States.Established in 1860, its main entrance is at the intersection of Clark Street and Irving Park Road.
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Rosehill's Joliet-limestone entrance gate (added in 1864) was designed by William W. Boyington, the architect of the Chicago Water Tower and the Old University of Chicago, who is buried in Rosehill. The Rosehill Cemetery Administration Building and Entry Gate was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
It is located near where the Cal-Sag Channel meets the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. In the woods is the original site of Argonne National Laboratory and the Site A/Plot M Disposal Site, which contains the buried remains of Chicago Pile-1, the world's first artificial nuclear reactor.
Notes: See the Collector's Notes.: References: For full details, see PJ. Mode, "References" Source/Photographer: Caetani, Michelangelo. La materia della Divina commedia di Dante Alighieri dichiarata in VI tavole da Michelangelo Caetani.
Mount Olivet was consecrated in 1885, and was the first Catholic cemetery to be established in the south side of Chicago. There are over 142,200 people buried at the cemetery, with over 150 annual interments. The cemetery is 93 acres (38 ha) in size.
LEXINGTON, Va. (AP) — A Virginia city has officially renamed the cemetery where Confederate Gen. Stonewall Jackson is buried. The city council in Lexington voted unanimously Thursday to adopt a ...
Also that year, 9 acres (3.6 ha) were donated to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago so that Catholics could be buried in the cemetery. [2] In 1900, Ossian Cole Simonds was commissioned to improve the grounds. Simonds was a friend and former associate of Jenney and was lauded for his work designing Graceland Cemetery in Chicago. His plan ...