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Maple Grove Cemetery (Kew Gardens, New York)
Maple Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery at 127-15 Kew Gardens Road in Briarwood, Queens, Briarwood/Kew Gardens, Queens, New York City, New York (state), New York. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. __NOTOC__ History Maple Grove is a 65-acre cemetery established in 1875 on the "Backbone of Long Island" by Colonel William Sterling Cogswell and business associates. It consists of two sections; Monumental Park and Memorial Park. The Victorian Era Monumental Park was the first section opened in 1875 and laid out in the rural cemetery tradition with panoramic winding roads through a forest covered hilly terrain, with the original entrance at Queens Boulevard. The Lodge Building, located at the Queens Boulevard entrance, and the Receiving Tomb were erected in 1875. The Victorian Administration Building was erected in 1880 at the Lefferts Boulevard and Kew Gardens Road Entrance. All were designed by noted New York City architect James E. Ware (1846–19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Briarwood, Queens
Briarwood is a middle-class neighborhood in the New York City borough of Queens. The neighborhood is roughly bounded by the Van Wyck Expressway to the west, Parsons Boulevard to the east, Union Turnpike to the north, and Hillside Avenue to the south. Briarwood is named for the Briarwood Land Company, headed by Herbert A. O'Brien, who started developing the area in the first decade of the 20th century. Today, Briarwood contains a diverse community of Asian-American, white American, Hispanic/Latino, and African American and Afro-Caribbean residents. It is part of Queens Community Board 8. Geography Briarwood, located northwest of downtown Jamaica, contains one of the highest points in Queens. It is located approximately between the Van Wyck Expressway (I-678) to the west, Union Turnpike to the north, Parsons Boulevard to the east, and Hillside Avenue ( NY 25) to the south. Demographics Briarwood is a diverse community, according to 2010 census data that groups Briarwood ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
