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Lexington Cemetery

Lexington Cemetery and Henry Clay Monument
(U.S. National Register of Historic Places)
One of the lakes at Lexington Cemetery
One of the lakes at Lexington Cemetery
Location: Lexington, Kentucky
Area: 170 acres
Built/Founded: 1849
Architect: Adams,Julius W.; et al.
Architectural style(s): Gothic, Romanesque
Added to NRHP: July 12, 1976
NRHP Reference#: 76000873 [1]
Governing body: Local

Lexington Cemetery 170 acres (0.7 km²) is a private, non-profit cemetery and arboretum located at 833 W. Main Street, Lexington, Kentucky. It is open to the public during daylight hours.

The Lexington Cemetery was established in 1849 as a place of beauty and a public cemetery now containing over 64,000 interments. Its plantings include boxwood, cherries, crabapples, dogwoods, magnolias, taxus, as well as flowers such as begonias, chrysanthemums, irises, jonquils, lantanas, lilies, and tulips. Also on the grounds is an American basswood (Tilia Americana), which the cemetery claims to be the largest in the world. However, this claim is not supported by the National Register of Big Trees, which claims that the largest American Basswood is located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

The cemetery also contains the graves of:

Also within the cemetery are three places which are on the National Register of Historic Places separately from the main cemetery: Confederate Soldier Monument in Lexington, the Ladies' Confederate Memorial, and Lexington National Cemetery.

See also

References

  1. ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).

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