Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum is a historic cemetery in Altadena, California, United States. Established in 1882, it contains over 70,000 burials in its approximately , including Pasadena's pioneering families and California statesmen and women. It also contains a section for Civil War burials. The cemetery also includes a

mausoleum A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be consid ...

, located across the street on Marengo Avenue, and the Pasadena Mausoleum, on Raymond Avenue.About us
- Mountain View's official website

History

In the

frontier A frontier is the political and geographical area near or beyond a boundary. A frontier can also be referred to as a "front". The term came from French in the 15th century, with the meaning "borderland"—the region of a country that fronts o ...

era, the residents of Pasadena buried their relatives on family property. Colonel Jabez Banbury's son, Charles, for example, was buried on land that occupied part of the Arroyo Seco, now part of the Wrigley Estate. Banbury sold his property in 1882, at which point Levi W. Giddings set aside part of his own property to be used as a cemetery. The following year, 24 burials were moved to the cemetery. Between two burials is an empty grave with steel walls which is used in movies and television series to allow actors to get in and out for shooting purposes. Productions that have used the grave include '' American Horror Story'', '' Promising Young Woman'', '' Pretty Little Liars'' and '' Six Feet Under''. After the disappearance of

Glenn Miller Alton Glen Miller (March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944) was an American big band founder, owner, conductor, composer, arranger, trombone player and recording artist before and during World War II, when he was an officer in the United States Arm ...

in 1944, it was rumored that he was buried in secret in Mountain View in the Altadena family plot. Mountain View Mausoleum, located nearby, was built by

Cecil E. Bryan Cecil Eldridge Bryan (March 26, 1878 – March 24, 1951) was an American architect and inventor active in the first half of the 20th century. He designed over eighty mausoleums, at least one of which is now on the National Register of Historic Pla ...

Notable burials

* Herbert W. Armstrong *

John C. Austin John Corneby Wilson Austin (February 13, 1870 – September 3, 1963) was an architect and civic leader who participated in the design of several landmark buildings in Southern California, including the Griffith Observatory, Los Angeles City Hall, ...

* Jabez Banbury * Eldridge Cleaver * Richard Feynman *

Henry H. Markham Henry Harrison Markham (November 16, 1840October 9, 1923) was an American lawyer and Republican politician. He was the 18th governor of California (1891–1895), and represented California's 6th congressional district during the 49th Un ...

* George Reeves *

Seth Cook Rees Seth Cook Rees (August 6, 1854 – May 22, 1933) was a leading figure in the “ holiness movement," co-founding the International Holiness Union and Prayer League, and, following a schism with the Church of the Nazarene, founding the Pilgrim Holi ...

References

External links

* Altadena, California 1882 establishments in California Cemeteries in Los Angeles County, California {{cemetery-stub