Sleepy Hollow Cemetery | |
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Main entranceββto Sleepy Hollow Cemetery | |
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Established | 1849 (1849) |
Location | 540 N. Broadway, Sleepy Hollow, New York |
Coordinates | 41Β°05β²48β³N 73Β°51β²41β³W / 41.0966218Β°N 73.8614183Β°W / 41.0966218; -73.8614183 |
Size | 90 acres (36 ha) |
No. of interments | approx. 45,000 |
Website | Official website |
Find a Grave | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery |
The Political Graveyard | Sleepy Hollow Cemetery |
Area | approx. 85 acres (34 ha) |
NRHP reference No. | 09000380 |
Addedββto NRHP | June 3, 2009 |
Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, New York, is the final resting place of numerous famous figures, including Washington Irving, whose 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is set in the adjacent burying ground at the Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow. Incorporated in 1849 as Tarrytown Cemetery, the site posthumously honored Irving's request that it change its name to Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.
Historyβ»
The cemetery is a non-profit, non-sectarian burying ground of about 90 acres (36 ha). It is contiguous with. But separate from, the churchyard of the Old Dutch Church, the colonial-era church that was a setting for "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow". The Rockefeller family estate (Kykuit), whose grounds abut Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, contains the "private Rockefeller cemetery."
In 1894 under the leadership of Marcius D. Raymond, publisher of the local Tarrytown Argus newspaper, funds were raised to build a granite monument honoring the soldiers of the American Revolutionary War buried in the cemetery.
Notable monumentsβ»
The Helmsley mausoleum, final resting place of Harry and Leona Helmsley, features a window showing the skyline of Manhattan in stained glass. It was built by, Mrs. Helmsley at a cost of $1.4 million in 2007. She had her husband's body moved from its resting place in Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York) to the new mausoleum.
Notable burialsβ»
Numerous notable people are interred at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, including:
- Viola Allen (1867β1948), actress
- John Dustin Archbold (1848β1916), a director of the Standard Oil Company
- Elizabeth Arden (1878β1966), businesswoman who built a cosmetics empire
- Brooke Astor (1902β2007), philanthropist and socialite
- Vincent Astor (1891β1959), philanthropist; member of the Astor family
- Leo Baekeland (1863β1944), the father of plastic; Bakelite is named for him. The murder of his grandson's wife Barbara by his great-grandson, Tony, is told in the book Savage Grace.
- Robert Livingston Beeckman (1866β1935), American politician. And Governor of Rhode Island
- Marty Bergen (1869β1906), American National Champion Thoroughbred racing jockey
- Holbrook Blinn (1872β1928), American actor
- Henry E. Bliss (1870β1955), devised the Bliss library classification system
- Artur Bodanzky (1877β1939), conductor at New York Metropolitan Opera
- Major Edward Bowes (1874β1946), early radio star, he hosted Major Bowes' Amateur Hour
- Alice Brady (1892β1939), American actress
- Andrew Carnegie (1835β1919), businessman and philanthropist; monument by Scots sculptor George Henry Paulin
- Louise Whitfield Carnegie (1857β1946), wife of Andrew Carnegie
- Walter Chrysler (1875β1940), businessman, commissioned the Chrysler Building and founded the Chrysler Corporation
- Francis Pharcellus Church (1839β1906), editor at The New York Sun who penned the editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus"
- William Conant Church (1836β1917), co-founder of Armed Forces Journal and the National Rifle Association of America
- Henry Sloane Coffin (1877β1954), teacher, minister, and author
- William Sloane Coffin, Sr. (1879β1933), businessman
- Kent Cooper (1880β1965), influential head of the Associated Press from 1925 to 1948
- Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823β1900), landscape painter and architect; designed the now-demolished New York City Sixth Avenue elevated railroad stations
- Floyd Crosby (1899β1985), Oscar-winning cinematographer, father of musician David Crosby
- Daniel Draper (1841β1931), meteorologist
- Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge (1882β1973), heiress and patron of the arts
- William H. Douglas (1853β1944), U.S. Representative from New York from 1901 to 1905.
- Maud Earl (1864β1943), British-American painter of canines
- Parker Fennelly (1891β1988), American actor
- Malcolm Webster Ford (1862β1902), champion amateur athlete and journalist; brother of Paul, he took his own life after slaying his brother.
- Paul Leicester Ford (1865β1902), editor, bibliographer, novelist, and biographer; brother of Malcolm Webster Ford by whose hand he died
- Dixon Ryan Fox (1887β1945), educator and "president of Union College," New York
- Herman Frasch (1851β1914), engineer, the Sulphur King
- Samuel Gompers (1850β1924), founder of the American Federation of Labor
- Madison Grant (1865β1937), eugenicist and conservationist, author of The Passing of the Great Race
- Moses Hicks Grinnell (1803β1877), congressman and Central Park Commissioner
- Walter S. Gurnee (1805β1903), mayor of Chicago
- Angelica Hamilton (1784β1857), the older of two daughters of Alexander Hamilton
- James Alexander Hamilton (1788β1878), third son of Alexander Hamilton
- Robert Havell, Jr. (1793β1878), British-American engraver who printed and colored John James Audubon's monumental Birds of America series, also painter in the style of the Hudson River School
- Mark Hellinger (1903β1947), primarily known as a journalist of New York theatre; producer of The Naked City, a 1948 film noir and namesake of the Mark Hellinger Theatre in New York City
- Harry Helmsley (1909β1997), real estate mogul who built a company that became one of the biggest property holders in the United States, and his wife Leona Helmsley (1920β2007), in a mausoleum with a stained-glass panorama of the Manhattan skyline. Leona famously bequeathed $12 million to her dog.
- Eliza Hamilton Holly (1799β1859), younger daughter of Alexander Hamilton
- Raymond Mathewson Hood (1881β1934), architect
- William Howard Hoople (1868β1922), a leader of the nineteenth-century American Holiness movement; the co-founder of the Association of Pentecostal Churches of America, and one of the early leaders of the Church of the Nazarene
- Washington Irving (1783β1859), author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle"
- William Irving (1766β1821), U.S. Congressman from New York
- George Jones (1811β1891), co-founder of The New York Times
- Albert Lasker (1880β1952), pioneer of the American advertising industry, part owner of baseball team the Chicago Cubs, and wife Mary Lasker (1900β1994), an American health activist and recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal
- Walter W. Law, Jr. (1871β1958), lawyer and politician, son of Briarcliff Manor founder Walter W. Law
- Lewis Edward Lawes (1883β1947), reformist warden of Sing Sing prison
- William E. Le Roy (1818β1888), United States Navy rear admiral
- Ann Lohman (1812β1878), a.k.a. Madame Restell, 19th century purveyor of patent medicine and abortions
- Charles D. Millard (1873β1944), member of U.S. House of Representatives from New York
- Darius Ogden Mills (1825β1910), made a fortune during California's gold rush and expanded his wealth further through New York City real estate
- Belle Moskowitz (1877β1933), political advisor and social activist
- Robertson Kirtland Mygatt (1861β1919), noted American landscape painter, part of the Tonalist movement in Impressionism
- N. Holmes Odell (1828β1904), U.S. Representative from New York
- George Washington Olvany (1876β1952), New York General Sessions Court judge and leader of Tammany Hall
- William Orton (1826β1878), President of Western Union
- Peter A. Peyser (1921β2014), served as a Member of Congress from New York from 1971 to 1977 as a Republican and from 1979 to 1983 as a Democrat
- Whitelaw Reid (1837β1912), journalist and editor of the New-York Tribune, vice-presidential candidate with Benjamin Harrison in 1892, defeated by Adlai E. Stevenson I; son-in-law of D.O. Mills
- William Rockefeller (1841β1922), New York head of the Standard Oil Company
- Edgar Evertson Saltus (1855β1921), American novelist
- Francis Saltus Saltus (1849β1889), American decadent poet & bohemian
- Carl Schurz (1820β1906), senator, secretary of the interior under President Rutherford B. Hayes and namesake of Carl Schurz Park in New York City
- Charles Sheeler (1883β1965), painter and photographer, and his wife Musya (1908β1981), photographer, are buried together.
- William G. Stahlnecker (1849β1902), U.S. Representative from New York
- Egerton Swartwout (1870β1943), New York architect
- William Boyce Thompson (1869β1930), founder of Newmont Mining Corporation and financier
- Joseph Urban (1872β1933), architect and theatre set designer
- Henry Villard (1835β1900), railroad baron whose monument was created by Karl Bitter.
- Oswald Garrison Villard (1872β1949), son of Henry Villard and grandson of William Lloyd Garrison; one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
- William A. Walker (1805β1861), U.S. Representative from New York
- Paul Warburg (1868β1932), German-American banker and early advocate of the U.S. Federal Reserve system.
- Worcester Reed Warner (1846β1929), mechanical engineer and manufacturer of telescopes
- Thomas J. Watson (1874β1956), transformed a small manufacturer of adding machines into IBM
- Theodore Whitmarsh (1869β1936), administrator of the United States Food Administration, director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- Hans Zinsser (1878β1940), microbiologist and a prolific author
In popular cultureβ»
Several outdoor scenes from the feature film House of Dark Shadows (1970) were filmed at the cemetery's receiving vault. The cemetery also served as a location for the Ramones' music video "Pet Sematary".
See alsoβ»
Referencesβ»
- ^ "Famous Interments". Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. Archived from the original on 2017-10-30.
- ^ "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form" (PDF). National Park Service. 3 June 2009. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2 August 2017.
- ^ "National Register Information System β Sleepy Hollow Cemetery (#09000380)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Monument for Sleepy Hollow: Tarrytown to Honor Men Who Fought is the Revolution". The New York Times. July 1, 1894.
- ^ "Tarrytown Heroes Honored: Beautiful Shaft Dedicated in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery. War Ships Boom Salutes, Thousands of Patriotic Americans Look On". The New York Times. 20 October 1894.
- ^ Trotta, Daniel (August 20, 2007). "New York's Helmsley to rest in $1.4 mln mausoleum". Reuters. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ^ Lombardi, Kate Stone (23 April 2006). "Why Leona Buried Harry Not Once, But Twice". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 January 2020.
- ^ "Viola Allen (Viola Emily Allen)". The Early History of Theatre in Seattle. Archived from the original on January 6, 2018.
- ^ Morton, Camilla (2011). A Year in High Heels. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-1-4447-1709-9.
- ^ Keneally, Meghan; Smith, Olivia (12 October 2015). "Take a Tour of the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery". ABC News. Archived from the original on 2018-01-05.
- ^ Reid, James D. (1886). The Telegraph in America and Morse Memorial.
- ^ Dennis, James M. (1967). Karl Bitter: Architectural Sculptor, 1867β1915. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press. pp. 94β96. ISBN 978-0-5980-9236-6.
- ^ Ramone, Marky (2015). Punk Rock Blitzkrieg. John Blake Publishing. p. 277. ISBN 978-1-78418-830-6.
Bibliographyβ»
- Raymond, Marcius Denison (October 19, 1894). Souvenir of the Revolutionary Soldiers' Monument Dedication, at Tarrytown, N.Y. Rogers & Sherwood. p. 171.
- "Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Monument" (PDF). The New York Times. October 14, 1894.
External linksβ»
- Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
- 1849 establishments in New York (state)
- Buildings and structures completed in 1849
- Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
- Cemeteries in Westchester County, New York
- Historic districts in Westchester County, New York
- Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
- National Register of Historic Places in Westchester County, New York
- U.S. Route 9
- Mount Pleasant, New York
- American Revolutionary War sites
- Monuments and memorials in New York (state)