Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut)
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The Mark Howard monument, one of Cedar Hill's most famous. | |
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Location | 453 Fairfield Ave., in Hartford, Wethersfield, and Newington, Connecticut |
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Coordinates | 41°43′20″N 72°42′12″W / 41.72222°N 72.70333°WCoordinates: 41°43′20″N 72°42′12″W / 41.72222°N 72.70333°W |
Built | 1865 |
Architect | multiple, including Weidenmann, Jacob |
Architectural style | Gothic, Queen Anne, Modern Movement |
NRHP reference # | 97000333[1][2] |
Added to NRHP | April 28, 1997 |
Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut is located at 453 Fairfield Avenue. It was designed by landscape architect Jacob Weidenmann (1829–1893) who also designed Hartford's Bushnell Park. Its first sections were completed in 1866 and the first burial took place on July 17, 1866. Cedar Hill was designed as an American rural cemetery in the tradition of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The cemetery straddles three towns. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, in Hartford, Newington, and Wethersfield.[1][3] It includes the Cedar Hill Cemetery Gateway and Chapel, also known as Northam Memorial Chapel and Gallup Memorial Gateway, which is separately listed on the NRHP.
Cedar Hill Cemetery encompasses 270 acres (1.1 km2) and includes several historic buildings, including the Northam Memorial Chapel (built 1882), which was designed by Hartford architect George Keller, and the Superintendent's Cottage (built 1875), which continues to be occupied by Cedar Hill's Superintendent to this day.
Open from dawn til dusk 365 days a year, Cedar Hill Cemetery welcomes visitors to walk the grounds and partake in the expansive art, history and natural resources this park-like space has to offer.
Notable monuments
Cedar Hill has many unique monuments. One of the most recognizable is the 18-foot (5.5 m) tall pink-granite pyramid, and life-sized angel statue, erected in memory of Mark Howard and his wife, Angelina Lee Howard. Mark Howard was president of the National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford and Connecticut's first internal revenue collector.[4]
Another example of an unusual grave is that of Cynthia Talcott, age two, which features her likeness in stone.
John Pierpont Morgan's family monument was designed by architect George W. Keller. Made of red Scottish granite, the monument was designed to portray Morgan's vision of the Ark of the Covenant.[5]
The Porter-Valentine mausoleum features a stained-glass window created by Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Notable burials
More than 30,000 people are buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery, including many Hartford notables such as:[6]
- Robert Downing Ames (1889–1931), actor
- John Moran Bailey, Connecticut politician
- Henry Barnard (1811–1900), Connecticut educator
- James Goodwin Batterson, Connecticut businessman
- Leverett Brainard, Connecticut politician[7]
- Thomas Church Brownell, founder of Trinity College
- Donald Lamont Brown (1890–1940), co-founder of Pratt & Whitney[8]
- Eliphalet Adams Bulkeley, Connecticut businessman
- Morgan Gardner Bulkeley, Governor of Connecticut
- William Gedney Bunce, artist[9]
- John Burnham (Connecticut), Civil War soldier[10]
- Henry Ward Camp, Civil War soldier[11]
- George Capewell, Connecticut businessman
- William Closson, artist
- Emily Parmely Collins, women's rights legal activist[12]
- Elizabeth Jarvis Colt, Connecticut business woman
- Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt revolver
- Lemuel R. Custis, was a Tuskegee Airmen[13]
- Katharine Seymour Day (1870–1964)[14]
- Charles Bancroft Dillingham, Broadway producer
- Virginia Dox, frontier educator and popular lecturer
- Johnny Duke or Giulio Gallucci (1924–2006), professional boxer and coach
- Albert Entress, sculptor[15]
- Edward Miner Gallaudet, teacher
- Sophia Fowler Gallaudet, teacher
- Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet, educator of the deaf
- William James Glackens (1870–1938), artist
- Annie Warburton Goodrich, nurse, first dean of Yale University School of Nursing
- Charles Keeney Hamilton, aviator
- Joseph Roswell Hawley, governor of Connecticut
- Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003), actress
- Katharine Houghton Hepburn (1878–1951), women's rights legal activist
- Thomas Hepburn (Connecticut), physician[16]
- Isabella Beecher Hooker (1822–1907), women's rights legal activist
- Mark Howard (Connecticut), Connecticut businessman[17]
- Marshall Jewell (1825–1883), Connecticut businessman.
- Pliney Jewell, Connecticut businessman[18]
- Mary Goodrich Jenson, aircraft pilot
- Walter Keney, Connecticut businessman[19]
- Edwin Denison Morgan (1811–1883), United States Senator[20]
- Junius Spencer Morgan, financier
- John Pierpont Morgan, Sr., financier
- Benjamin Wistar Morris (1870–1944), architect
- Colonel Charles Harvey Northam, Connecticut businessman[21]
- Peter Davis Oakley (1861-1920), US Representative
- Michael P. Peters, Connecticut politician[22]
- Albert Linder Pope, Connecticut businessman[23]
- Francis Ashbury Pratt, inventor
- Henry Roberts (1853–1929), Governor of Connecticut from 1905 to 1907
- Thomas Henry Seymour, Governor of Connecticut
- Virginia Thrall Smith, children's rights legal advocate
- Griffin Alexander Stedman, United States Civil War general of the Battle of Fort Stedman. The General Stedman monument was sculpted by John M. Moffit.[24]
- Wallace Stevens (1879–1955), poet
- Allen Butler Talcott, artist
- James Terry (Connecticut), anthropologist[25]
- Isaac Toucey, Secretary of the Navy
- Reverend Joseph Hopkins Twichell, theologian[26]
- Robert Ogden Tyler, Civil War general
- Edward Sims Van Zile (1863-1931), author
- Charles Dudley Warner, writer
- Jacob Weidenmann (1829–1893), Switzerland-born landscape architect
- Gideon Welles (1802–1878), Secretary of the Navy under Abraham Lincoln
- Horace Wells, discoverer of anesthesia
- Amos Whitney, inventor
- Yung Wing (1828–1912), first Chinese graduate of Yale university
- Paul Zimmerman, artist[27]
Image gallery: Monuments
- Angel sculpture, Mark Howard monument
- Statue atop Oswin Welles monument, sculpted by Carl Conrads (1873)
- General Stedman monument, sculpted by John M. Moffit
- Hunt family monument, sculpted by Carl Conrads
- Statue atop Clark family monument, designed by Truman Howe Bartlett (1868) and sculpted by Ferdinand von Miller (1869)
- Angel of the Resurrection atop Colt family monument, sculpted by Randolph Rogers (1864)[28]
- Statue atop Marshall Jewell monument, sculpted by Carl Conrads
- Statue atop John B. Windsor monument, sculpted by Carl Conrads (circa 1887-1905)
Image gallery: Trees
- Weeping European Beech, June 2011
- Weeping European Beech, June 2011
- Ginkgo, November 2014
- Purple Japanese Threadleaf Maple, July 2011
- Japanese Threadleaf Maple Trees, November 2013
- Ed Richardson with Japanese Threadleaf Maple, June 2013 This tree was planted in honor of Mr. Richardson's work measuring and mapping the trees of Cedar Hill Cemetery.
- Pink Weeping Cherry Tree, March 2012
See also
References
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- 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
- ↑ actual announcement, on weekly listings on the NRHP
- ↑ "CONNECTICUT - Hartford County - Historic Districts". National Register of Historic Places mirror site. Retrieved 2008-04-24.
- ↑ "A Guide to the Mark Howard Papers at the Connecticut Historical Society" (PDF). chs.org. Connecticut Historical Society Museum and Library. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
- ↑ Architectural Gems. Courant.com (2007-07-06). Retrieved on 2013-08-21.
- ↑ "Notable Residents". Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut). Retrieved 2014-09-28.
Cedar Hill Cemetery is the final resting place of numerous politicians, industrialists, writers, actors, artists and educators. Below is a listing of some of Cedar Hill’s most notable residents.
- ↑ New England Stationer and Printer. 16. 1902. p. 42.
- ↑ "Donald L. Brown, United Aircraft head, dies at 49". Chicago Daily Tribune. January 30, 1940. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
- ↑ French, Harry Willard (1878). Art and Artists in Connecticut. Lee and Shepard. pp. 148–149.
- ↑ Banks, John (August 6, 2013). Connecticut Yankees at Antietam. Arcadia Publishing Incorporated. pp. 165–169. ISBN 978-1-61423-983-3.
- ↑ Trumbull, Henry Clay (1865). The Knightly Soldier: A Biography of Major Henry Ward Camp, Tenth Conn. Vols. New York: Boston, Nichols and Notes.
- ↑ "Centenary of a suffragist". New-York Tribune. August 5, 1914. p. 8. Retrieved September 14, 2017 – via Newspapers.com.
- ↑ Gubert, Betty Kaplan; Sawyer, Miriam; Fannin, Caroline M. (2002). Distinguished African Americans in Aviation and Space Science. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 88–90. ISBN 978-1-57356-246-1.
- ↑ "Katharine Seymour Day (1870 – 1964)". Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut). Retrieved 2014-09-28.
- ↑ Grant, Marion H. (1978). In and about Hartford: Tours and Tales. Connecticut Historical Society. pp. 84 and 184.
- ↑ Sterner, Daniel (July 10, 2012). A Guide to Historic Hartford, Connecticut. Arcadia Publishing Incorporated. p. 135. ISBN 978-1-61423-580-4.
- ↑ "Mark Howard PapersA Guide to the Mark Howard Papers at the Connecticut Historical Society". chs.org. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
- ↑ Staff, New England Historic Genealogical Society (June 1996). The New England Historical and Genealogical Register: Volume 37 1883. Heritage Books. pp. 415–416. ISBN 978-0-7884-0473-3.
- ↑ Campbell, Susan. "History Set In Stone". courant.com. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
- ↑ Edwin Denison Morgan, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed April 25, 2008.
- ↑ The Bankers Magazine and Statistical Register. Wm. Crosby. 1882. p. 482.
- ↑ "The Mayor As Showman: Putting personal popularity to work to bring a city back from the brink". www.governing.com. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
- ↑ Goddard, Stephen B. (December 30, 2008). Colonel Albert Pope and His American Dream Machines: The Life and Times of a Bicycle Tycoon Turned Automotive Pioneer. McFarland. p. 229. ISBN 978-1-4766-1334-5.
- ↑ "Connecticut's Civil War Monuments - Genl. Griffin A. Stedman". CHS.org. Connecticut Historical Society. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
- ↑ McKinstry, E. Richard (2003). Guide to the Winterthur Library: The Joseph Downs Collection and the Winterthur Archives. Winterthur Museum. p. 517. ISBN 978-0-912724-61-4.
- ↑ "Rev. Joseph H. Twichell Of Hartford". The New York Times. December 15, 1895. Retrieved 2014-09-28.
The Rev. Joseph H. Twichell, who completed thirty years of his pastorate at the Asylum Hill Congregational Church Friday, Dec. 13, in a native of the town of Southington and was graduated from Yale in the class of '58. ...
- ↑ "Paul W. Zimmerman's Obituary on Hartford Courant". Hartford Courant. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
- ↑ Inscription at base of statue shows date as "MDCCCLXIV" (1864).
External links
- Cedar Hill Cemetery and Foundation, official website
- Cedar Hill's Distinguished Heritage, official website subpage on history
- David F. Ransom, NPHP Nomination, Cedar Hill Cemetery, 1996.
- Mapquest link, showing the cemetery
- Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford Connecticut, 1863-1903, 1903