Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City and is a designated National Historic Landmark.

A rural cemetery located in the northern New York City borough of The Bronx, it opened in 1863, in what was then southern Westchester County, in an area that was later annexed to New York City in 1874.[citation needed]

The Cemetery covers more than 400 acres (160 ha) and is the resting place for more than 300,000 people. It is also the site of the "Annie Bliss Titanic Memorial", dedicated to those who perished in the 1912 maritime disaster. 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 LaFarge.

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.

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.

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.

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 Dyckman-Nagle Burying Ground, West 212th Street at 9th Avenue, in the Borough of Manhattan, was originally established in 1677 and originally contained 417 plots. In 1905, the remains, with the exception of Staats Morris Dyckman and his family, were removed. By 1927, the Dyckman graves were finally moved to Woodlawn Cemetery. The former Dutch colonial-era cemetery is now a 207th Street subway train yard.
• West Farms Dutch Reformed Church at Boone Avenue and 172nd Street in the Borough of The Bronx had most of its graves moved to Woodlawn Cemetery.
• Bensonia Cemetery, (also known as "Morrisania Cemetery"), was originally a Native American Burial Ground. The graves were moved to Woodlawn Cemetery. Public School #138, in The Bronx, is now on the site.
• Rutgers Street church graves were also moved to Woodlawn.

Notable burials

A

• Anthony Allaire
• Vivian Beaumont Allen
• Vincent Alo
• John Murray Anderson
• Alexander Archipenko
• Herman Ossian Armour
• Hugh D. Auchincloss
• James C. Auchincloss

B

• Benjamin Babbitt
• Jules Bache
• Diana Barrymore
• Nora Bayes
• Charles Becker
• Alva Belmont
• Oliver Belmont
• Irving Berlin- famous songwriter, musician and bandleader
• Amelia Bingham
• Cornelius Bliss
• Coralie Blythe
• George Boldt
• Emma Booth, involved with the Salvation Army
• Gail Borden
• Bostwick family
• Boris Brasol
• Herbert Brenon
• Bricktop
• Benjamin Bristow
• Addison Brown
• Henry Bruckner
• Nellie Bly famous woman reporter of the late 19th Century and "muckraker"
• Ralph Bunche, famous United Nations official and diplomat
• Richard Busteed
• Benjamin Franklin Butler, (1795-1858) - lawyer
• Charles Butler

C

• Harry Carey
• Vernon and Irene Castle - well-known husband & wife dancing team, movie stars
• Carrie Chapman Catt
• Alfred Chapin
• Horace F. Clark
• Huguette Clark
• William A. Clark
• Henry Clews
• George M. Cohan - bronze statue in center of Times Square
• Barron Collier
• Edward Knight Collins
• Ida Conquest
• Austin Corbin
• Ricardo Cortez
• Lotta Crabtree
• William Nelson Cromwell
• Celia Cruz
• Countee Cullen
• Frederick Kingsbury Curtis
• Elizabeth Jane Cochran

D

• Leopold Damrosch
• Miles Davis
• Clarence Day
• Zachariah Deas
• Cornelius H. DeLamater
• George Washington De Long           
• Sidney Dillon
• William E. Dodge
• Richard Dorson
• Vernon Duke
• Paul Du Chaillu
• Finley Peter Dunne
• William C. Durant

E

• Gertrude Ederle
• Gus Edwards
• Duke Ellington
• Albert Ellis

F

• David Farragut
• Bud Fisher
• Clara Fisher
• Rudolph Fisher
• Clyde Fitch
• Geraldine Fitzgerald
• James Montgomery Flagg
• Frankie Frisch
• Antoinette Perry Frueauff

G

• Tommy Gagliano
• Lindley Miller Garrison
• Francis Patrick Garvan
• John Warne Gates
• Ben Gazzara
• Charles Sidney Gilpin
• Thomas F. Gilroy
• Ambrosio José Gonzales
• Jay Gould
• Archibald Gracie III
• Archibald Gracie
• George Bird Grinnell
• Lawrence Grossmith
• Simon Guggenheim

H

• Oscar Hammerstein, Sr.
• Lionel Hampton
• W.C. Handy
• Edward Harkness
• Lamon V. Harkness
• William L. Harkness
• Charles K. Harris
• William Frederick Havemeyer
• Coleman Hawkins
• Millicent Hearst
• August Heckscher
• John Held, Jr.
• Victor Herbert
• Adelaide Herrmann
• Christian Archibald Herter
• John D. Hertz
• Jim Holdsworth
• Richard Hudnut
• Charles Evans Hughes
• Collis P. Huntington
• Barbara Hutton
• Henry Baldwin Hyde

J

• Milt Jackson
• Illinois Jacquet
• Fanny Janauschek
• Augustus D. Juilliard

K

• Pedro Knight
• Fritz Kreisler

L

• Fiorello La Guardia
• Daniel S. Lamont
• Scott La Rock
• Canada Lee
• Henry Lehman
• Frank Leslie
• J.C. Leyendecker
• Harold Lockwood
• Frank Belknap Long
• Mansfield Lovell
• George Platt Lynes

M

• Rowland Macy
• Martha Mansfield
• Frankie Manning
• Vito Marcantonio
• Dewey Markham
• Louis Marx
• Giuseppe Masseria
• Bat Masterson
• Victor Maurel
• William McAdoo
• Josiah Calvin McCracken
• George A. McGuire
• Jackie McLean
• George McManus
• Marie Mattingly Meloney
• Herman Melville
• Dean Meminger
• William P. Merrill
• Cyrus Miller
• Gilbert Miller
• Marilyn Miller
• Florence Mills
• John Bassett Moore
• Paul Morton
• Robert Moses

N

• Thomas Nast
• Harold Nicholas
• Hideyo Noguchi
• James W. Nye

O

• Chauncey Olcott
• Blanche Oelrichs
• Hermann Oelrichs
• William Butler Ogden
• Joe "King" Oliver

P

• Augustus G. Paine, Jr.
• Felix Pappalardi
• James Cash Penney
• Generoso Pope
• George B. Post
• Otto Preminger
• Samuel I. Prime
• Joseph Pulitzer
• Mihajlo Pupin

R

• Charles Ranhofer
• Theodore Reik
• Gaetano Reina
• Grantland Rice
• Vincent Richards
• Tex Rickard
• Max Roach
• Delmar "Barney" Roos
• Ruth Rowland Nichols
• Damon Runyon

S

• Isidor Straus- owner of Macy's Department Store, Democratic member of the 53rd Congress of the United States, victim of the Sinking of the RMS Titanic

T

• Olive Thomas
• Lloyd Tilghman
• Dan Topping
• Jokichi Takamine
• Clarice Taylor

U

• Vladimir Ussachevsky
• Samuel Untermyer
• Gladys Unger

V

• Robert Anderson Van Wyck
• Virginia Fair Vanderbilt

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