Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)
Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City and a designated National Historic Landmark. Located south of Woodlawn Heights, Bronx, New York City, it has the character of a rural cemetery. Woodlawn Cemetery opened during the Civil War in 1863, in what was then southern Westchester County, in an area that was annexed to New York City in 1874. It is notable in part as the final resting place of some well known figures. Locale and grounds. The Cemetery covers more than and is the resting place for more than 300,000  people. Built on rolling hills, its tree-lined roads lead to some unique memorials, some designed by famous American architects: McKim, Mead & White, John Russell Pope, James Gamble Rogers, Cass Gilbert, Carrère and Hastings, Sir Edwin Lutyens, Beatrix Jones Farrand, and John La Farge. The cemetery contains seven Commonwealth war graves – six British and Canadian servicemen of World War I and an airman of the Royal Canadian Air Force of World War II. In 2011, Woodlawn Cemetery was designated a National Historic Landmark, since it shows the transition from the rural cemetery popular at the time of its establishment to  the more orderly 20th-century cemetery style. As of 2007, plot prices at Woodlawn were reported as $200 per square foot, $4,800 for a gravesite for two, and up to $1.5 million for land to build a family mausoleum. Burials moved to Woodlawn. Woodlawn was the destination for many human remains disinterred from cemeteries in more densely populated parts of New York City: The fictional cemetery of the Synagogue in Brooklyn in the film "Once Upon a Time in America" is actually located here, renamed "Riverdale Cemetery". Notable burials. Numerous notable persons have been interred at Woodlawn  Cemetery including: Chief Justice of the United States Charles Evans Hughes; aviation pioneer Harriet Quimby, performer, playwright and producer George M Cohan; gangster Bumpy Johnson; authors Nellie Bly, Countee Cullen, Clarence Day, Damon Runyon, Herman Melville, and Dorothy Parker; musicians Irving Berlin, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, W. C. Handy, Fritz Kreisler, King Oliver, and Max Roach; singers Celia Cruz and Florence Mills; husband and wife magicians Alexander Herrmann and Adelaide Herrmann; sportswriter Grantland Rice; gunfighter and US marshal Bat Masterson; and, businessmen such as shipping magnate Archibald Gracie, cosmetics manufacturer Richard Hudnut, department store founder Rowland Hussey Macy, and variety  store mogul F. W. Woolworth. A large number of New York brewers (e.g., the Haffens of Haffen Brewing Company) are interred there on "Brewer's Row", along with a dozen other brewing scions and their families. Published Scholar, Dr. George Kirchmann References. Notable People Dr. George Kirchmann https://www.massapequapost.com/articles/george-harold-kirchmann-longtime-massapequa-park-resident-published-scholar-and-massapequa-historical-society-trustee-at-79/