Lake View Cemetery is a historic

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park or memorial garden, is a place where the remains of many death, dead people are burial, buried or otherwise entombed. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek ...

in the city of

Ithaca Ithaca most commonly refers to: *Homer's Ithaca, an island featured in Homer's ''Odyssey'' *Ithaca (island), an island in Greece, possibly Homer's Ithaca *Ithaca, New York, a city, and home of Cornell University and Ithaca College Ithaca, Ithaka ...

, in

Tompkins County, New York Tompkins County is a County (United States), county located in the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. As of the United States Census 2020, 2020 census, the population was 105,740. The county seat is Ithaca, New York, Ithaca. The name is ...

named for its original view of nearby Lake Cayuga.

History

The cemetery was established in 1894. It includes an

Egyptian Revival Egyptian Revival is an architectural style that uses the motifs and imagery of ancient Egypt. It is attributed generally to the public awareness of ancient Egyptian monuments generated by Napoleon's French campaign in Egypt and Syria, invasion of ...

style mausoleum and

receiving vault A receiving vault or receiving tomb, sometimes also known as a public vault, is a structure designed to temporarily store dead bodies in winter months when the ground is too frozen to dig a permanent grave in a cemetery. Technological advancements ...

, a distinctive serpentine road system and architectural works by William Henry Miller and

Liberty Hyde Bailey Liberty Hyde Bailey (March 15, 1858 – December 25, 1954) was an American Horticulture, horticulturist and reformer of rural life. He was cofounder of the American Society for Horticultural Science.Makers of American Botany, Harry Baker Humphrey ...

. Lake View Cemetery was hit with a series of embezzlement scandals in the twenty-first century. In 2006, a groundskeeper pled guilty to stealing $87,709 from the cemetery. In 2014, a former caretaker and president of Lake View Cemetery was charged with embezzling over $50,000 and "selling or giving away" much of the cemetery's equipment. The cemetery is currently in operation, selling burial lots and providing burial services.

Notable burials

Given its proximity to

Cornell University Cornell University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university based in Ithaca, New York, United States. The university was co-founded by American philanthropist Ezra Cornell and historian and educator Andrew Dickson W ...

, the cemetery includes a number of significant figures from the university's history, including members of the Cornell family, and the graves of faculty members. *

(1858–1954), American horticulturalist and designer * Ethel Zoe Bailey (1889–1983), American botanist and curator * Juanita Breckenridge Bates (1860–1946), American suffragist and early woman ordained as a minister * Sophronia Bucklin (1828–1902), American Civil War nurse * John "Honest John" Clapp (1851–1904), early American baseball player and manager * Robert Gilmour Dobie (1878–1948), American football player and record-setting coach *

Estevan Antonio Fuertes Estevan Antonio Fuertes (May 10, 1838 – January 16, 1903) was a Puerto Rican-American civil engineer and professor of astronomy at Cornell University. Biography Born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Estevan Antonio Fuertes was the son of Estevan and ...

(1838–1903), Cornell astronomer and namesake of Fuertes Observatory *

Louis Agassiz Fuertes Louis Agassiz Fuertes (February 7, 1874 – August 22, 1927) was an American ornithologist, illustrator and artist who set the rigorous and current-day standards for ornithological art and naturalist depiction and is considered one of the most pr ...

(1874–1927), American ornithologist, illustrator and artist * James R. Houck (1940–2015), pioneer of infrared observational astronomy * William Henry Miller (1848–1922), American architect *

Carl Sagan Carl Edward Sagan (; ; November 9, 1934December 20, 1996) was an American astronomer, planetary scientist and science communicator. His best known scientific contribution is his research on the possibility of extraterrestrial life, including e ...

(1934–1996), American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, author, science popularizer *

Trevor Pinch Trevor J. Pinch (1 January 1952 – 16 December 2021) was a British sociologist, part-time musician and chair of the science and technology studies department at Cornell University. In 2018, he won the J.D. Bernal Prize from the Society for ...

(1952-2021), British sociologist and an originator of the theory of Social Construction of Technology.

References

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