Bergen Crest Mausoleum is a mausoleum in Hudson County, New Jersey.

Location

Located at 4001 Kennedy Boulevard, the Bergen Crest Mausoleum is in town of

North Bergen, New Jersey North Bergen is a township in the northern part of Hudson County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2020 U.S. census, the township had a total population of 63,361. The township was founded in 1843. It was much diminished in territory by ...

and is adjacent to the Garden State Crematory. Along the boulevard is the

Grove Church Cemetery The Grove Church Cemetery is a nonsectarian cemetery,Brooklyn Fairchild Sons, p. 63. located on the western slope of the Hudson Palisades, along with several other cemeteries in a string of green open space, in Hudson County, New Jersey, United ...

and Flower Hill Cemetery, as well as Schuetzen Park. It is roughly and the entire property is roughly .

History

On March 27, 1917, plans were approved for the construction of a community mausoleum in North Bergen, Under the New York & New Jersey Mausoleum Association, the two-story

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and reinforced concrete building was estimated costing $150,000 and was designed by the architect

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,International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers, et al., p. 308 of the Hoboken Land and Improvement Company. The mausoleum takes its name from its position on

Bergen Hill Bergen Hill refers to the lower Hudson Palisades in New Jersey, where they emerge on Bergen Neck, which in turn is the peninsula between the Hackensack and Hudson Rivers, and their bays. In Hudson County, it reaches a height of 260 feet. Rai ...

at the edge of the

Hudson Palisades The Palisades, also called the New Jersey Palisades or the Hudson River Palisades, are a line of steep cliffs along the west side of the lower Hudson River in Northeastern New Jersey and Southeastern New York in the United States. The cliffs s ...

where they begin their descent to the west, overlooking

Weehawken Cemetery The Weehawken Cemetery, like neighboring Hoboken Cemetery, is not located in its namesake town of Weehawken but rather on the western slope of the Hudson Palisades in North Bergen, New Jersey, with its main entrance on Bergen Turnpike. At its east ...

and

Palisades Cemetery The Palisades Cemetery is located on the cuesta, or descending ridge of the Palisades in North Bergen, New Jersey. Its main entrance on Bergen Turnpike and Union Turnpike. It is adjacent to the Weehawken Cemetery and is one of several on the we ...

.Hagstrom Map, Hudson County. Reported in the ''American Mercury'' journal and in ''

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'', on July 3, 1929 a crowd estimated to be between 10,000 and 12,000 people traveling from over northern New Jersey and New York had gathered around the mausoleum in awe at the "faintly shadowed likeness of the head of Christ which was discovered on the whitish gray stone front of the building". Policemen were dispatched to keep the crowd in order and off of the lawn as they looked on curiously. Some considered it to be a miracle,Mencken, p. 182. while others viewed it simply as weather markings.

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* {{Find a Grave cemetery, 1965604 North Bergen, New Jersey Cemeteries in Hudson County, New Jersey Buildings and structures in Hudson County, New Jersey 1917 establishments in New Jersey

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