Houston's silent garden
Subtitle: Glenwood Cemetery, 1871-2009
By: Suzanne Turner and Joanne Seale Wilson ; color photography by Paul C. Hester.
Contributors: Wilson, Joanne Seale.; Hester, Paul.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Sara and John Lindsey series in the arts and humanities -- no. 12; Sara and John Lindsey series in the arts and humanities -- no. 12.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781603441636
Subjects: Glenwood Cemetery (Houston, Tex.) -- History; Glenwood Cemetery (Houston, Tex.) -- Pictorial works; Historic gardens -- Texas -- Houston; Cemeteries -- Landscape architecture -- Texas -- Houston; Registers of births, etc. -- Texas -- Houston; Inscriptions -- Texas -- Houston; Houston (Tex.) -- Genealogy
Genres: Genealogy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Models for the landscape of death in the new world; title: Chronology; title: The Glenwood story; title: Houston before Glenwood: burial grounds for a frontier city; title: Founding of the Houston Cemetery Company: private initiative needed; title: Creating the garden cemetery: layer upon layer, generation to generation; title: The Glenwood Cemetery Association: a new century, a new structure; title: Glenwood's landscape character: styles of the times; title: Symbolism in stone; title: Monuments and sculpture; title: A Houston community; title: Some Glenwood biographies.