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At the time it was the largest in the area, with room for 600 interments. The Columbus Mausoleum Company built numerous other mausoleums in the surrounding area but Green Lawn Abbey was its largest. Built with 1.5-inch (38 mm) thick granite walls, marble interior and an imported tile roof, the Abbey was built to inspire awe.
W.N. Flynt Granite Co., in Monson, Massachusetts, a granite quarry that opened in 1809 and operated until 1935. By 1888, the company employed over 200 workers, and produced about 30,000 tons of granite per year. Quincy Quarries Reservation, in Quincy, Massachusetts, producer of granite from 1826 to 1963, including for the Bunker Hill Monument.
Green Lawn Cemetery is privately owned by the nonprofit Green Lawn Cemetery Association. [41] The cemetery is one of Ohio's most prominent rural (or "garden") cemeteries. [42] Any member of the public may purchase a plot. As of 2021, Green Lawn Cemetery contained 360 acres (1.5 km 2), making it Ohio's second-largest cemetery. [43]
Historical marker ()The Snowden-Gray mansion is located on East Town Street in Downtown Columbus, close to Topiary Park. [1] The surrounding Town-Franklin neighborhood is considered the city's first suburb, first subdivided in the 1840s, with early fashionable residences constructed in the 1850s, and its lots filling in during the subsequent prosperous decades. [2]
Green Lawn Abbey, a mausoleum built in 1927. In 1927, the Green Lawn Abbey was built by the Columbus Mausoleum Company. The private community mausoleum was designed with a gray granite exterior and columned second-floor portico. In the nineteenth century, cities were closing burying grounds within city limits.
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