Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx)

The Woodlawn Cemetery is a cemetery in the north of the Borough of the Bronx in New York City. With an area of over 160 acres and approximately 300,000 graves he is one of the largest cemeteries in the city.

The park-like grounds in the Bronx River Valley was designed by the architect James C. Sidney and 1863 taken as a cemetery in operation after funerals at the city 's population had arrived in rural areas from the borders of the city in fashion. A secondary function as a recreational park was mitvorgesehen from the outset. 1776 had George Washington have on the later cemetery a redoubt against the advancing British troops building, which today is located at the south end of the cemetery.

Three-quarters of the land had existed until the 19th century from farmland, the rest was wooded. Sidney designed a vast park cemetery with hills, wooded sections, a lake and a branched network of paths, the largest of which are passable by car today. The design should be the romantic ideal of naturalness. The surrounding area was not yet built at that time, but easily accessible from Manhattan. Today, the Bronx closes just south of the cemetery, which closes the New York metropolitan area to the north.

Soon after its opening was the Woodlawn Cemetery one of the most prestigious burial places of the city. Many famous personalities from politics, business and the arts are buried there, including some of the author Herman Melville, the jazz musician Miles Davis or any business Winfield Woolworth. Wealthy families could be partly build large mausoleums, which are often held in the neoclassical style.

The Woodlawn Cemetery was declared in 2011 to the National Historic Landmark.

List of famous people who are buried at the Woodlawn Cemetery

A

Anthony Allaire (1820-1903)
Vivian Beaumont Allen (1895-1962)
Vincent Alo (1904-2001), mobster Cosa Nostra
John Murray Anderson (1886-1954), actor

Alexander Archipenko (1887-1964), sculptor
Hugh D. Auchincloss (1897-1976), stockbroker
James C. Auchincloss (1885-1976), politician

B

Diana Barrymore (1921-1960), actress
Nora Bayes (1880-1928), singer
Charles Becker (1870-1915)
Alva Vanderbilt Belmont (1853-1933), women's rights activist
Oliver Belmont (1858-1908), politician
Irving Berlin (1888-1989) Composer
Amelia Bingham (1869-1927), actress
Cornelius Newton Bliss (1833-1911), politician
George Boldt (1851-1916), hotelier

Gail Borden (1801-1874), publisher
Herbert Brenon (1880-1958), Director
Bricktop (1894-1984), dancer
Benjamin H. Bristow (1832-1896), politician
Addison Brown (1830-1913), judge
Nellie Bly (1864-1922), journalist
Ralph Bunche (1904-1971), diplomat
Richard Busteed (1822-1898), lawyer
Benjamin Franklin Butler (1795-1858), politician

C

Harry Carey senior (1878-1947), actor
Vernon and Irene Castle (1887-1918, 1893-1969), couple
Carrie Chapman Catt (1859-1947), women's rights activist
Alfred C. Chapin (1848-1936), lawyer
Horace F. Clark (1815-1873), Member of Parliament
Huguette M. Clark (1906-2011), millionaire
Henry Clews (1836-1923), banker
George M. Cohan (1878-1942), actor
Barron Collier (1873-1939), entrepreneur

Edward Knight Collins (1802-1878), entrepreneur
Ida Conquest (1876-1937), actress
Austin Corbin (1827-1896), entrepreneur
Ricardo Cortez (1899-1977), actor
Lotta Crabtree (1847-1924), actress
William Nelson Cromwell (1854-1948), lawyer
Celia Cruz (1925-2003), singer
Countee Cullen (1903-1946)

D

Leopold Damrosch (1832-1885), composer
Miles Davis (1926-1991), jazz musician
Clarence Day (1874-1935), writer
Zachariah Cantey Deas (1819-1882), Officer
Cornelius H. Delamater (1821-1889), entrepreneur
George W. DeLong (1844-1881), navigator and Arctic explorer

Alexander De Seversky Procofieff (1894-1974), an aeronautical engineer
Sidney Dillon (1812-1892), entrepreneur
William E. Dodge (1805-1892), businessman
Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1835-1903), anthropologist
William Durant (1861-1947), entrepreneur

E

Gertrude Ederle (1906-2003), swimmer
Gus Edwards (1879-1945), lyricist

Duke Ellington (1899-1974), jazz musician

F

David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870), naval officer
Bud Fisher (1885-1954), cartoonist
Clara Fisher (1811-1898), actress
Rudolph Fisher (1897-1934), physician
Clyde Fitch (1865-1909), playwright

Geraldine Fitzgerald (1913-2005), actress
James Montgomery Flagg (1877-1960), draftsman
Frankie Frisch (1898-1973), baseball player
Antoinette Perry (1888-1946), actress

G

Tommy Gagliano (1884-1951), mobster Cosa Nostra
Lindley Miller Garrison (1864-1932), lawyer
Francis Patrick Garvan (1875-1937), lawyer
Thomas Francis Gilroy (1840-1911), politician
Ambrosio José Gonzalez (1818-1893), Revolutionary

Jay Gould (1836-1892), entrepreneur
Archibald Gracie III (1832-1864), entrepreneur
Anastasia of Greece (1870-1923), wife of Prince Christopher of Greece
George Bird Grinnell (1849-1938), scientist
Simon Guggenheim (1867-1941), businessman

B

Oscar Hammerstein (1847-1919), theater producer
Lionel Hampton (1908-2002), jazz musician
W. C. Handy (1873-1958), blues musician
Edward Harkness (1874-1940), philanthropist
Lamon V. Harkness (1839-1915), businessman
Stephen V. Harkness (1818-1888), entrepreneur
Charles K. Harris (1867-1930), composer
Louisine W. Havemeyer (1855-1929)
William Frederick Havemeyer (1804-1874), businessman
Coleman Hawkins (1904-1969), jazz musician

Millicent Hearst (1882-1974), actress
August Heckscher ( industrialist ) ( 1848-1941 ), entrepreneur and philanthropist
John Held Jr. (1889-1959), cartoonist
Victor Herbert (1859-1924), composer
Adelaide Herrmann (1853-1932), actress
Christian Archibald Herter (1865-1910), physician
Charles Evans Hughes (1862-1948), politician
Collis P. Huntington (1821-1900)
Barbara Hutton (1912-1979), millionaire
Henry Baldwin Hyde (1834-1899), entrepreneur

J

Milt Jackson (1923-1999), jazz musician
Illinois Jacquet (1922-2004), jazz musician

Fanny Janauschek (1829-1904), actress
Augustus D. Juilliard (1836-1919), businessman

K

James R. Keene (1838-1939), stockbroker
Hermann Jakob Knapp (1832-1911), ophthalmologist
Pedro Knight (1921-2007), musician
Augustus Kountze (1826-1892), politician

Maria Kraus- Bölte (1836-1918), teacher
Fritz Kreisler (1875-1962), musician
Samuel Henry Kress (1863-1955), businessman
Walt Kuhn (1877-1949), painter

L

Fiorello LaGuardia (1882-1947), politician
Daniel Scott Lamont (1851-1905), politician
Canada Lee (1907-1952), actor
Henry Lehman (1822-1855), entrepreneur
Joseph Christian Leyendecker (1874-1951), draftsman

Harold Lockwoiod (1867-1918), actor
Frank Belknap Long (1903-1994), writer
Mansfield Lovell (1822-1884), Officer
George Platt Lynes (1907-1955), Photographer

M

Rowland Hussey Macy (1822-1877), businessman
Martha Mansfield (1899-1923), actress
Frankie Manning (1914-2009), dancer
Vito Marcantonio (1902-1954), lawyer
Pigmeat Markham (1904-1981), entertainer
Louis Marx (1896-1982), businessman
Bat Masterson (1853-1921), journalist
William McAdoo (1853-1930), politician
Jackie McLean (1931-2006), jazz musician

George McManus (1884-1954), cartoonist
Herman Melville (1819-1891), writer
Gilbert Miller (1884-1969), theater producer
Marilyn Miller (1898-1936), dancer
Florence Mills (1896-1927), singer
John Bassett Moore (1860-1947), lawyer
Paul Morton (1857-1911), businessman
Robert Moses (1888-1981), urban planners

N

Thomas Nast (1840-1902), cartoonist
Harold Nicholas (1921-2000), dancer

Hideyo Noguchi (1876-1928), microbiologist
James W. Nye (1815-1876), politician

O

Chauncey Olcott (1858-1932), actor
Blanche Oelrichs (1890-1950), writer
Hermann Oelrichs (1850-1906), banker

William Butler Ogden (1805-1877), politician
Joe King Oliver (1885-1938), jazz musician

P

Augustus G. Paine, Jr. (1866-1947), entrepreneur
Felix Pappalardi (1939-1983), musician
James Cash Penney (1875-1971), businessman
Generoso Pope (1891-1950), publisher
George B. Post (1837-1913), architect

Otto Preminger (1905-1986), Director
Samuel I. Prime (1812-1885), writer
Tito Puente (1923-2000), jazz musician
Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), journalist
Mihajlo Pupin (1854-1935), Physicist

R

Charles Ranhofer (1836-1899), restaurateur
Theodor Reik (1888-1969), psychoanalyst
Grantland Rice (1880-1954), journalist
Vincent Richards (1903-1959), tennis player
Tex Rickard (1871-1929), Promoters

Max Roach (1924-2007), jazz musician
Andrew J. Rogers (1828-1900), politician
Barney Roos (1888-1960), Engineer
Ruth Rowland Nichols (1901-1960), aviation pioneer

S

Francesco Scalice (1893-1957), Mafioso
Sokei - to Shigetsu Sasaki (1882-1945), Buddhist
Lawrence L. Shenfield (1891-1974), philatelist
Louis Sherry (1855-1926), restaurateur
Franz Sigel (1824-1902), Officer
Franklin Simon (1865-1934), businessman
Charles Snyder (1860-1945), architect
Ruth Snyder (1895-1928)
Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902), civil rights activist
Joseph Stella (1877-1946), painter

John William Sterling (1844-1918), lawyer
William H. H. Stowell (1840-1922), politician
Josef Stransky (1872-1936), composer
Isidor Straus (1845-1912), businessman
William Lafayette Strong (1827-1900), politician
Ephraim George Squier (1821-1888), journalist
Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833-1908), writer
James Stillman (1850-1918), businessman
Swante M. Swenson (1816-1896), entrepreneur

T

Jokichi Takamine (1854-1922), Chemist
Clarice Taylor (1917-2011), actress
Olive Thomas (1894-1920), actress

Lloyd Tilghman (1816-1863), Engineer
Dan Topping (1912-1974), businessman

U

Samuel Untermyer (1858-1940), lawyer

Vladimir Ussachevski (1911-1990), composer

V

Robert Anderson Van Wyck (1849-1918), lawyer

Virginia Fair Vanderbilt (1875-1935), millionaire

W

Madam CJ Walker (1867-1919)
James Watson Webb (1802-1884), diplomat
William Henry Webb (1816-1899), ship engineer
Royal Hurlburt Weller (1881-1929), politician
Henry Westinghouse (1853-1933), inventor
Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (1875-1942), sculptor
Harry Payne Whitney (1872-1930), businessman

William Collins Whitney (1841-1904), politician
Bert Williams (1874-1922), entertainer
Harry Wills (1889-1958), Boxer
Edward O. Wolcott (1848-1905), politician
William Woodward, Jr. (1920-1955), businessman
Winfield Woolworth (1852-1919), entrepreneur

Documents

Rural cemetery Alva Belmont Benjamin Bristow Benjamin Franklin Butler (lawyer) Zachariah C. Deas Alexander P. de Seversky Finley Peter Dunne Princess Anastasia of Greece and Denmark Prince Christopher of Greece and Denmark Oscar Hammerstein I Louisine Havemeyer William McAdoo (New Jersey) Joe "King" Oliver Damon Runyon Frank Scalice William Henry Harrison Stowell E. G. Squier Madam C. J. Walker

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