garden cemetery
A rural cemetery or garden cemetery is a style of cemetery that became popular in the United States and Europe in the mid-nineteenth century due to the overcrowding and health concerns of urban cemeteries. They were typically built one to five ...
located in the north side community area of Uptown, in the city of
Chicago, Illinois
(''City in a Garden''); I Will
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, United States. Established in 1860, its main entrance is at the intersection of Clark Street and Irving Park Road. Among the cemetery's are the burial sites of several well-known Chicagoans.
Graceland includes a naturalistic reflecting lake, surrounded by winding pathways, and its pastoral plantings have led it to become a certified
arboretum
An arboretum (plural: arboreta) in a general sense is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees of a variety of species. Originally mostly created as a section in a larger garden or park for specimens of mostly non-local species, man ...
of more than 2,000 trees. The cemetery's wide variety of burial monuments include a number designed by famous architects, several of whom are also buried in the cemetery.
History
Thomas Barbour Bryan
Thomas Barbour Bryan (December 22, 1828 – January 26, 1906) was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician.
Born in Virginia, a member of the prestigious Barbour family on his mother's side, Bryan largely made a name for himself in Chi ...
, a Chicago businessman, established Graceland Cemetery in 1860 with the original layout designed by Swain Nelson. Bryan's son, Daniel Page Bryan, was the first person to be buried at the cemetery after having been disinterred and removed from the city cemetery in Lincoln Park along with approximately 2,000 other individuals. In 1870,
Horace Cleveland
Horace William Shaler Cleveland (December 16, 1814 – December 5, 1900) was an American landscape architect. His approach to natural landscape design can be seen in projects such as the Grand Rounds in Minneapolis; Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in Con ...
designed curving paths, open vistas, and a small lake to create a park-like setting. In 1878, Bryan hired his nephew
Bryan Lathrop
Bryan Lathrop (August 6, 1844 – May 13, 1916) was an American businessman and art collector from Alexandria, Virginia, United States. He is known for his works in Chicago, Illinois, where his insurance and real estate dealings made him very we ...
as president. In 1879, the cemetery acquired an additional , and
Ossian Cole Simonds
Ossian Cole Simonds (November 11, 1855 – November 20, 1931), often known as O. C. Simonds, was an American landscape designer. He preferred the term 'landscape gardener' to that of ' landscape architect'. A number of Simonds' works are listed ...
was hired as its landscape architect to design the addition. Lathrop and Simonds wanted to incorporate naturalistic settings to create picturesque views that were the foundation of the
Prairie style
Prairie School is a late 19th- and early 20th-century architectural style, most common in the Midwestern United States. The style is usually marked by horizontal lines, flat or hipped roofs with broad overhanging eaves, windows grouped i ...
. Lathrop was open to new ideas and provided opportunities for experimentation which led to Simonds use of native plants including oak, ash, witch hazel, and dogwood at a time when many viewed native plants as invasive. The Graceland Cemetery Association designated one section of the grounds to be devoid of monuments and instituted a review process led by Simonds for monuments and family plots. Simonds later became the superintendent at Graceland until 1897, and continued on as a consultant until his death in 1931.
Graceland Cemetery was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...
on January 18, 2001.
Geography
Graceland Cemetery is an example of a
rural cemetery
A rural cemetery or garden cemetery is a style of cemetery that became popular in the United States and Europe in the mid-nineteenth century due to the overcrowding and health concerns of urban cemeteries. They were typically built one to five ...
, which is a style of cemetery characterized by landscaped natural areas. The concept of the rural cemetery emerged in the early 19th century as a response to overcrowding and poor maintenance in existing cemeteries in Europe.
In the 19th century, a train to the north suburbs occupied the eastern edge of the cemetery, where the Chicago "L" train now runs. The line was also used to carry mourners to funerals, in specially rented funeral cars. As a result, there was an entry through the east wall, which has since been closed. When founded, the cemetery was well outside the city limits of Chicago. After the
Great Chicago Fire
The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300 people, destroyed roughly of the city including over 17,000 structures, and left more than 10 ...
in 1871, Lincoln Park, which had been the city's cemetery, was deconsecrated and some of the bodies were reinterred to Graceland Cemetery.
The edge of the pond around
Daniel Burnham
Daniel Hudson Burnham (September 4, 1846 – June 1, 1912) was an American architect and urban designer. A proponent of the '' Beaux-Arts'' movement, he may have been, "the most successful power broker the American architectural profession has ...
's burial island was once lined with broken headstones and coping transported from Lincoln Park. Lincoln Park was redeveloped as a recreational area. A single mausoleum remains, the "Couch tomb", containing the remains of
Ira Couch
Ira Couch (November 11, 1806—February 28, 1857) was an American businessman known for his real estate holdings in Chicago, as well as for establishing and running the city's Tremont House hotel.
Couch posthumously obtained two further claims t ...
. The Couch Tomb is probably the oldest extant structure in the city, everything else having been destroyed by the
Great Chicago Fire
The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned in the American city of Chicago during October 8–10, 1871. The fire killed approximately 300 people, destroyed roughly of the city including over 17,000 structures, and left more than 10 ...
.
The cemetery's walls are topped off with wrought iron spear point fencing.
Notable tombs and monuments
Many of the cemetery's tombs are of great architectural or artistic interest, including the Getty Tomb, the
Martin Ryerson Mausoleum
The Martin Ryerson Tomb is an Egyptian Revival style mausoleum designed by Louis Sullivan and completed in 1889. It is in the historic Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, United States.
History
Martin L. Ryerson was a wealthy Chicago lumber b ...
(both designed by architect
Louis Sullivan
Louis Henry Sullivan (September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924) was an American architect, and has been called a "father of skyscrapers" and "father of modernism". He was an influential architect of the Chicago School, a mentor to Frank Lloy ...
, who is also buried in the cemetery), and the
Schoenhofen Pyramid Mausoleum
The Schoenhofen Pyramid Mausoleum is a tomb in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. It was designed by Chicago School architect Richard E. Schmidt as a family mausoleum for the Chicago brewer Peter Schoenhofen.
History
Well-known Chicago brewer Peter Sc ...
. The industrialist
George Pullman
George Mortimer Pullman (March 3, 1831 – October 19, 1897) was an American engineer and industrialist. He designed and manufactured the Pullman sleeping car and founded a company town, Pullman, for the workers who manufactured it. This ulti ...
was buried at night, in a lead-lined coffin within an elaborately reinforced steel-and-concrete vault, to prevent his body from being exhumed and desecrated by labor activists.
William Hulbert
William Ambrose Hulbert (October 23, 1832 – April 10, 1882) was one of the founders of the National League, recognized as baseball's first major league, and was also the president of the Chicago White Stockings franchise.
Biography
Born in Bu ...
, the first president of the National League, has a monument in the shape of a baseball with the names of the original National League cities on it.
Along with its other famous burials, the cemetery is notable for two statues by the renowned Chicago sculptor
Lorado Taft
Lorado Zadok Taft (April 29, 1860, in Elmwood, Illinois – October 30, 1936, in Chicago) was an American sculptor, writer and educator. His 1903 book, ''The History of American Sculpture,'' was the first survey of the subject and stood for decad ...
Victor Lawson
Victor Fremont Lawson (September 9, 1850 – August 19, 1925) was an American newspaper publisher who headed the ''Chicago Daily News'' from 1876 to 1925.David Paul Nord. "Lawson, Victor Fremont". ''American National Biography Online''. Oxford Univ ...
's final resting place.
The cemetery is also the final resting place of 31 victims of the
Iroquois Theatre fire
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Thea ...
Walter Webb Allport
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, dentist
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John Peter Altgeld
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, Governor of Illinois
*
Amabel Anderson Arnold
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Early life
Amabel Ande ...
, organized the Woman's State Bar Association of Missouri, the first association of women lawyers in the world
*
Philip Danforth Armour
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, meat packing magnate
*
Ernie Banks
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, Chicago Cubs
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, member of the State House of Representatives, United States consul at Dresden, Congressional Representative for Illinois
*
Doug Buffone
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, Chicago Bears former linebacker, host
WSCR
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Justin Butterfield
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, attorney, land grant developer
*
Lydia Avery Coonley
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, author
*
Oscar Stanton De Priest
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International Harvester Company
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, father of James and Charles Deering
*
James Deering
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, executive of Deering Harvester Company and original owner of the
Villa Vizcaya
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estate
*
Charles Deering
Charles Deering (July 31, 1852 – February 5, 1927) was an American businessman, art collector, and philanthropist. He was an executive of the agricultural machinery company founded by his father that became International Harvester. Charles's ...
, executive of Deering Harvester Company, former chairman of International Harvester Company, and philanthropist
*
Augustus Dickens
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Augustus Dickens was the son of Elizabeth (''née'' Barrow ...
, brother of
Charles Dickens
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(he died penniless in Chicago)
*
Roger Ebert
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, film critic, journalist, screenwriter, author
*
George Elmslie
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, architect
*
John Jacob Esher
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(1823–1901), Bishop of the
Evangelical Association
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*
Marshall Field
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, businessman, retailer, whose memorial was designed by
Henry Bacon
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Henr ...
, with sculpture by
Daniel Chester French
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*
Bob Fitzsimmons
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, Heavyweight boxing champion, born in Cornwall, UK
*
Melville Fuller
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Elbert H. Gary
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, judge, chairman of U.S. Steel
* Bruce A. Goff, architect
*
Sarah E. Goode
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Born in 1855 in Toledo, Ohio t ...
, first African-American woman to receive a United States patent
*
Bruce Graham
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, co-architect of John Hancock building and Sears Tower (now called the Willis Tower)
*Dexter Graves was an early pioneer in the city who arrived on the schooner ''Telegraph'' in the 1830s. His memorial by
Lorado Taft
Lorado Zadok Taft (April 29, 1860, in Elmwood, Illinois – October 30, 1936, in Chicago) was an American sculptor, writer and educator. His 1903 book, ''The History of American Sculpture,'' was the first survey of the subject and stood for decad ...
is the statue '' Eternal Silence'' (also known as "the Dexter Graves Monument").
*
Richard T. Greener
Richard Theodore Greener (1844–1922) was a pioneering African-American scholar, excelling in elocution, philosophy, law and classics in the Reconstruction era. He broke ground as Harvard College's first Black graduate in 1870. Within three y ...
, first black graduate of Harvard (1870), first black professor at the University of South Carolina (1873-1877), administrator for the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial, and diplomat to Russia
*
Marion Mahony Griffin
Marion Mahony Griffin (; February 14, 1871 – August 10, 1961) was an American architect and artist. She was one of the first licensed female architects in the world, and is considered an original member of the Prairie School. Her work in ...
, architect
*
Carter Harrison, Sr.
Carter Henry Harrison Sr. (February 15, 1825October 28, 1893) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago, Illinois, from 1879 until 1887; he was subsequently elected to a fifth term in 1893 but was assassinated before completing t ...
, mayor of Chicago
*
Carter Harrison, Jr.
Carter Henry Harrison IV (April 23, 1860 – December 25, 1953) was an American newspaper publisher and Democratic politician who served a total of five terms as mayor of Chicago (1897–1905 and 1911–1915) but failed in his attempt to becom ...
, mayor of Chicago
*
Herbert Hitchcock
Herbert Emery Hitchcock (August 22, 1867 - February 17, 1958) was a United States senator from South Dakota.
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Hitchcock was born in Maquoketa, Iowa, the son of Harriet M. Lumley and Milando Lansing Hitchcock. He attended public schools in I ...
, US Senator from South Dakota
*
William Holabird
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Holabird was the son of General Samuel B. Holabird and Mary Theodosia Grant. He studied at the United States Mili ...
, architect
*
Henry Honoré
Henry Hamilton Honoré (February 19, 1824 – August 16, 1916) was an American businessman.
Early life
Honoré was born on February 19, 1824, in Louisville, Kentucky. He was the son of Francis Honoré (1792–1851) and Matilda D. ( née Lockw ...
, businessman, father of Bertha Honoré Palmer, father-in-law of Potter Palmer
*
William Hulbert
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Born in Bu ...
, president of baseball's National League
*
Charles L. Hutchinson
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Background
Hutch ...
, banker, philanthropist and founding president of the
Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago's Grant Park, founded in 1879, is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the world. Recognized for its curatorial efforts and popularity among visitors, the museum hosts approximately 1.5 mill ...
*
William Le Baron Jenney
William Le Baron Jenney (September 25, 1832 – June 14, 1907) was an American architect and engineer who is known for building the first skyscraper in 1884.
In 1998, Jenney was ranked number 89 in the book ''1,000 Years, 1,000 People: Ran ...
, architect, Father of the American skyscraper
* Elmer C. Jensen, "The Dean of Chicago Architects"
* Jack Johnson, first African-American heavyweight boxing champion
* William Johnson, educator who served as
superintendent of Chicago Public Schools
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*
John
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* John (surname)
John may also refer to:
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and Mary Richardson Jones, husband-and-wife abolitionists and activists
* Fazlur Khan, co-architect of John Hancock building and Sears Tower (now called the Willis Tower)
*
William Wallace Kimball
William Wallace Kimball (1828–1904) was the founder of the company now known as Kimball International.
Biography
Kimball was born in Rumford, Maine on March 22, 1828. He moved to Decorah, Iowa, in his mid-twenties and became a real estate b ...
, Kimball Piano and Organ Company
*
John Kinzie
John Kinzie (December 23, 1763 – June 6, 1828) was a fur trader from Quebec who first operated in Detroit and what became the Northwest Territory of the United States. A partner of William Burnett from Canada, about 1802-1803 Kinzie moved ...
, Canadian pioneer, early white settler in the city of Chicago
* Cornelius Krieghoff, well-known Canadian artist
*
Bryan Lathrop
Bryan Lathrop (August 6, 1844 – May 13, 1916) was an American businessman and art collector from Alexandria, Virginia, United States. He is known for his works in Chicago, Illinois, where his insurance and real estate dealings made him very we ...
, businessman, philanthropist, and longtime president of the cemetery
*
Robert Henry Lawrence Jr.
Robert Henry Lawrence Jr. (October 2, 1935 – December 8, 1967) was a United States Air Force officer and the first African-American astronaut.ommonly_in_Qur'ānic_literature__'_is_a_biblical_figure_and_Patriarchs_(Bible).html" "title="Qur'ān ...
, first African American astronaut (cremated at Graceland, but not physically buried there)
* Victor F. Lawson, editor and publisher of the ''Chicago Daily News''
*
Agnes Lee
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Biography
Lee was born Martha Agnes Rand in 1868 in Chicago. She was the second daughter of William H. Rand, an American printer and publisher who co-founded th ...
, poet and translator
*
Frank Lowden
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, Governor of Illinois
*
Franklin H. Martin
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Cyrus McCormick
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, businessman, inventor
*
Edith Rockefeller McCormick
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She and her husband Harold Fowler McCormick were prominent in Chicago society, supporting many ...
, Daughter-in-law of reaper inventor Cyrus McCormick and one of the four adult children of John D. Rockefeller
* Katherine Dexter McCormick, Daughter-in-law of reaper inventor Cyrus McCormick, MIT grad, biologist, suffragist, philanthropist
* Maryland Mathison Hooper McCormick, second wife of Col. Robert R. McCormick
* Nancy "Nettie" Fowler McCormick, businesswoman, philanthropist
*
Joseph Medill
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László Moholy-Nagy
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, influential photographer, teacher, and founder of the
New Bauhaus
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and
Institute of Design IIT
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in Chicago
*
Dawn Clark Netsch
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, comptroller of Illinois, professor & spouse of architect Walter Netsch
*
Walter Netsch
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, architect
* Richard Nickel, photographer, architectural historian and preservationist
* Ruth Page, dancer and choreographer
*
Bertha Honoré Palmer
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Born as Bertha Matilde Honoré in Louisville, Kentucky, her father was businessman Henry Hamilton Honoré. Known wit ...
U.S. Representative
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,
Public Printer of the United States
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*
Potter Palmer
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* Richard Peck, author
*
Allan Pinkerton
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, detective, progenitor of the Secret Service
*
William Henry Powell
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, Medal of Honor recipient
*
George Pullman
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, inventor and railway industrialist
*
Wilhelm Rapp
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, newspaper editor
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Hermann Raster
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, newspaper editor, politician and abolitionist
*
John Wellborn Root
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, architect
*
Howard Van Doren Shaw
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, architect
* Washington Smith, pioneer wholesale grocer and philanthropist. The Washington and Jane Smith Home (now Smith Village) was named in his honor.
*
Louis Sullivan
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, architect
*
Charles Wacker
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Kate Warne
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, first female detective,
Allan Pinkerton
Allan J. Pinkerton (August 25, 1819 – July 1, 1884) was a Scottish cooper, abolitionist, detective, and spy, best known for creating the Pinkerton National Detective Agency in the United States and his claim to have foiled a plot in 1861 to a ...
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Hempstead Washburne
Hempstead Washburne (November 11, 1851April 13, 1918) was a Republican attorney and politician from Illinois who served as Mayor of Chicago from 1891 to 1893. He was the son of United States Secretary of State Elihu B. Washburne.
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, mayor of Chicago
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Daniel Hale Williams
Daniel Hale Williams (January 18, 1856 – August 4, 1931) was an African-American surgeon, who in 1893 performed what is referred to as "the first successful heart surgery". It was performed at Chicago's Provident Hospital, which he founded i ...
, African-American surgeon who performed one of the first successful operations on the pericardium
* George Ellery Wood, lumber baron. His home, built in 1885, on 2801 S. Prairie Ave. in Chicago, IL is a historical landmark
Other cemeteries in the city of Chicago
Graceland is one of three large mid 19th-century Chicago cemeteries which were then well outside the city limits; the other two being Rosehill (further north), and Oak Woods (on the south-side) all in the elaborated pastoral cemetery style.
In addition, directly south of Graceland across Irving Park Road are the smaller German Protestant Wunder's Cemetery (1859), and adjacent Jewish Graceland Cemetery (divided by a fence), established in 1851. The Roman Catholic, Saint Boniface Cemetery (1863), is four blocks north of Graceland at the corner of Clark and Lawrence.
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List of mausoleums
This is a list of mausolea around the world.
Afghanistan
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United States National Cemeteries
United may refer to:
Places
* United, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
* United, West Virginia, an unincorporated community
Arts and entertainment Films
* ''United'' (2003 film), a Norwegian film
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Further reading
*Hucke, Matt and Bielski, Ursula (1999) ''Graveyards of Chicago: the people, history, art, and lore of Cook County Cemeteries'', Lake Claremont Press, Chicago
*Kiefer, Charles D., Achilles, Rolf, and Vogel, Neil A. Graceland Cemetery (
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Illinois Historic Preservation Agency
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'', June 18, 2000, accessed October 8, 2011.
*Lanctot, Barbara (1988) ''A Walk Through Graceland Cemetery'', Chicago Architectural Foundation, Chicago, Illinois
*Vernon, Christopher (2012) Graceland Cemetery: A Design History '. Amherst, MA: Library of American Landscape History and University of Massachusetts Press.
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Carl Sandburg
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