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Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City.The cemetery lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park, and is generally bounded by 20th Street to the northeast, Fifth Avenue to the northwest, 36th and 37th Streets to the southwest, Fort Hamilton Parkway to the south, and McDonald Avenue to the east.
Little is known about its origin, and the project remained unknown until 1956, when a report by Joan Matamala i Flotats was published, called "When the New World called Gaudí". [1] The drawings for the Attraction Hotel were proposed as a basis for the rebuilding of Ground Zero in Manhattan. [2]
John Purroy Mitchel, Mayor of New York City; John Bassett Moore; George L. K. Morris (1905–1975), Cubist artist, writer, and editor; Paul Morton; Robert Moses, government official, planner, builder, and Parks Department Commissioner of New York City; Bernarr McFadden Founder of the Physical Culture Hotel in Dansville, NY, McFadden Publications
New York Marble Cemetery, [3] East Village, the oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City; New York City Marble Cemetery, [4] East Village, the second oldest non-sectarian cemetery in New York City. Saint Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Midtown Manhattan; St. John's Burying Ground [5] Second Shearith Israel Cemetery, West Village [6]
Gaudí was born on 25 June 1852 in Riudoms or Reus [10] to coppersmith Francesc Gaudí i Serra (1813–1906) [11] and Antònia Cornet i Bertran (1819–1876). He was the youngest of five children, and far outlived the other two who survived to adulthood: Rosa (1844–1879) and Francesc (1851–1876).
The Historic Fund's Civil War Project, an effort to identify and remember Civil War veterans buried at Green-Wood, was created following the rededication ceremony of the Civil War Soldiers' Monument. These early graves had either sunk into the soil, been damaged, or had their markers erased before the monument was restored between 2000 and 2002 ...
The couple have been honored with a memorial in New York City’s Straus Park, which was also named after them. James Cameron Recreates ‘Titanic’ Door Scene 25 Years Later
John Linn (1763–1821), Representative New Jersey, cenotaph only. R57/S105. Dolley Madison, First Lady, interred in the Public Vault 1849–51, and in the Causten Vault for another 6 years; John Aaron Rawlins, Civil War General and U.S. Secretary of War, buried in 1869 and later moved to Arlington National Cemetery