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Burial grounds and memorial landscapes that keep older Manhattan geographies visible in the present city.
Burial grounds and memorials preserve traces of older Manhattan within today's city. The two Marble Cemeteries offer a different setting and scale from Grant's Tomb.
4 building histories
Graveyard · 1683
57 St. James Place, New York, NY
This small graveyard is what remains today of the early burial ground of the Sephardic Jewish congregation, Shearith Israel. It was established on this site in the Seventeenth Century and thus represents one of the...
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W 122nd Street & Riverside Drive, New York, NY
he General Grant National Memorial, the work of architect John K. Duncan, is one of the most impressive monuments in the City. Located on a spectacular site overlooking the Hudson River and Riverside Park, at houses the...
Read the storyGraveyard · 1831
74 East 2nd Avenue, New York, NY
It was laid out on some land belonging to Samuel Cowdrey, a vault owner In the other cemetery. Once again Perkins Nichols contracted for the construction of the vaults of Tuckahoe marble. The first vaults were ready by...
Read the storyGraveyard · 1830
64 East 2nd Street, New York, NY
This obscure and dignified cemetery, once located in a fashionable neighborhood, is largely surrounded by houses and tenements today. It is entered through iron gates protecting both ends of a long passage between Nos....
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