| Evergreens Cemetery | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
 Southern (Bushwick Avenue) entrance
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| Location: | 1629 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn, New York |
| Coordinates: | 40°41′32″N 74°12′38″W / 40.69222°N 74.21056°W |
| Built/Founded: | 1849 |
| Architect: | Vaux, Calvert; etc |
| Governing body: | State |
| Added to NRHP: | November 15, 2007 |
| NRHP Reference#: | 07001192[1] |
The Cemetery of the Evergreens is a non-denominational cemetery in Brooklyn and Queens, New York, colloquially called Evergreen Cemetery. 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. The cemetery borders Brooklyn and Queens and covers 225 acres of rolling hills and gently sloping meadows. It features several thousand trees and flowering shrubs in a park-like setting. The Evergreens is the final resting place of more than 526,000 people.
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 unidentified victims of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire of March 25, 1911.
The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 15, 2007.[2]
Cypress Hills Cemetery lies to its northwest.
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Notable burials
- John Bunny (1863-1915), actor
- Anthony Comstock (1844-1915), censor (see Comstock Law)
- Bill Dahlen (1870-1950), Major League Baseball player, one of the outstanding early 20th century players. Lies in an unmarked grave.
- James E. Davis (1962-2003), New York City councilman (he was originally interred in Green-Wood Cemetery, but after it was realized that his assassin was also interred there, he was moved to the Cemetery of the Evergreens)
- George Hall (1849-1923), Major League Baseball player, banned from baseball for life
- Yusef Hawkins (??-1989), murder victim
- Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904), artist
- Lucille Hegamin (1894-1970), singer, female pioneer of the Blues
- William Hickey (1927-1997), actor
- Joseph Forsyth Johnson (1840-1906) landscape architect
- Walt Kelly (1913-1973), cartoonist
- George H. Lindsay (1837-1916), congressman
- Winsor McCay (1872-1934), motion picture cartoon pioneer
- Antonio "Tony" Pastor (1837-1908), vaudevillian
- Bill "Bojangles" Robinson (1878-1949), tap dancer
- Stephen A. Rudd (1874-1936), world chess champion
- Joseph Thuma Schenck (c. 1891-1930), vaudevillian, better known as "Joe" Schenck, of the comedy singing team Van and Schenck
- William Steinitz (1836-1900), world chess champion
- Bob Thiele (1922-1996), record producer
- Amy Vanderbilt (1908-1974), journalist, etiquette authority
- Thomas "Blind Tom" Wiggins (1849-1908), musician
- Oscar Walker (1854-1889), major league baseball player
- Lester Young (1909-1959), jazz musician
See also
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. 2009-03-13. http://www.nr.nps.gov/.
- ^ http://www.nr.nps.gov/
Further Reading
- Rousmaniere, John. Green Oasis in Brooklyn: The Evergreens Cemetery 1849-2008. (2008) IBSN 978-0978689940
External links
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