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Forest Lawn Cemetery
Cemetery Details
Year established: 1849
Country: United States
Location: Buffalo, NY
Coordinates: 42°55′51″N 78°51′39″W / 42.93083°N 78.86083°W / 42.93083; -78.86083
Type: Public
Owned by: Forest Lawn Group
Size: 269 acres (~1 km²)
Number of gravesites: 152,000
Website: Forest Lawn.com
Find A Grave: Find A Grave.com - Forest Lawn Cemetery
The cemetery.

Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York was founded in 1849 by Charles E. Clark. It covers over 250 acres (1 km²) and over 152,000 are buried there. Notable graves include U.S. President Millard Fillmore, singer Rick James, and inventor Lawrence Dale Bell. Forest Lawn is on the National Register of Historic Places.

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Overview

Since its inception, Forest Lawn has served as a cemetery, park, arboretum, and outdoor museum. Monuments, mausoleums, and sculptures have attracted visitors for over 150 years. The first sculpture of Seneca Indian chief Red Jacket was erected in 1851. Red Jacket is depicted wearing the richly embroidered scarlet coat presented to him by a British officer, while on his breast is displayed the large silver peace medal awarded to him by President George Washington.[1]

Every summer Forest Lawn offers "Sundays in the Cemetery" tours, each with a particular theme. Past examples have included the Pan-American Exposition Bus Tour, Forest Lawn History Bus Tour, Forest Lawn History Walk, African American Bus Tour, Civil War Bus Tour, and the Forest Lawn Nature Walk.

In 2004, Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1928 design for the Blue Sky Mausoleum was realized. The Mausoleum contains 24 crypts, which can be purchased and memorialized by individual owners. The Blue Sky Mausoleum is one of three Frank Lloyd Wright memorial sculptures in the world. Sculptor David P. Dowler created a Steuben Glass piece in a limited edition of 26, of which 24 are reserved for those who purchase crypts in the Mausoleum. Crypt clients also receive a copy of architectural historian Richard O. Reisem's book, Blue Sky Mausoleum of Frank Lloyd Wright (2005).

Other mausoleums in the cemetery include:

  • Burgess-Little Mausoleum, designed by H. H. (Henry Harrison) Little.
  • Butler Mausoleum, constructed for Edward H. Butler, proprietor of the Buffalo Evening News.
  • Buswell-Hochstetter Mausoleum
  • Good Mausoleum, constructed for Daniel B. Good, who established the Seibert-Good Company in Chicago, which later consolidated with the Seymour H.Knox stores of Buffalo, N.Y. and finally amalgamated with the F.W. Woolworth Company.
  • Goodyear (Frank) Mausoleum, constructed for Frank Henry Goodyear, who, with his brother, Charles Waterhouse Goodyear, started the lumber company F. H. & C. W. Goodyear.
  • Kellner Mausoleum, constructed for John. S. Kellner, president of the Crystal Ice and Storage Company.
  • Knox Mausoleum, constructed for Seymour H. Knox, co-founder of F. W. Woolworth Company.
  • Laub Mausoleum
  • Letchworth-Skinner Mausoleum
  • Mark (Mitchel H) Mausoleum, constructed for Mitchell Mark, founder of the Vitascope Theater Company
  • Oberkircher Mausoleum, constructed for Caroline Oberkircher and family.
  • Pierce (George) Mausoleum, constructed for George N. Pierce who co-founded a company known as Heinz, Pierce and Munshauer for the manufacture of refrigerators, birdcages, iceboxes and bathtubs, until leaving to establish the Pierce Cycle Company, which later became the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Co.
  • Stachura Mausoleum, constructed for Chester and Gloria Stachura.
  • Steuernagel Mausoleum, constructed for John Steuernagel, president and board chairman of Kleinhans department store.
  • Vars Mausoleum, designed by Lawrence Bley and Duane Lyman. Interred are Harry Thorp Vars, Gertrude Waltho Vars , Mary G. Vars, Addison Foster Vars, Addison T. Vars, Jr., Aline Vars, Carlton J. Balliett, Evelyn Waltho Balliett, Jr., Rose Waltho Brown, Bertha W. Barker, and Estelle Noell Reavis.
  • Walden-Myer Mausoleum, designed by Richard A. Waite for Buffalo’s mayor from 1838-39[2], Ebenezer Walden, and son-in law, Albert J. Myer, recognized by many as the "founder and father" of the US Weather Bureau.[3]
  • Willams-Pratt Mausoleum

Others buried here

John Field sculpture, Forest Lawn, Buffalo, N.Y.

Walden-Myer Mausoleum, Forest Lawn, Buffalo, N.Y.

Blue Sky Mausoleum, in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, NY. Designed in 1928 by Frank Lloyd Wright for Darwin D. Martin. Constructed in 2004.

Close-Up of Blue Sky Mausoleum

Red Jacket statue at Forest lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, N.Y.

Thomas Crane Monument, in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, New York. Grave of businessman Thomas Crane and his daughter Amanda. Designed by Richard Upjohn, 1853.

The Blocher Memorial, in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, NY

The Birge Memorial, in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, NY. Burial place of George K. Birge, president of the Pierce-Arrow Motor Car Company.

Grave of the Fakir of Ava, in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, NY

Grave of Dorothy Goetz, wife of Irving Berlin, in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, NY

Marker for final resting place of Frederick Cook

The Oishei Bell, at the entrance to Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, NY

Interior of the Blocher Memorial, in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, NY. From a sign on the memorial: "These statues represent Mr. and Mrs. John Blocher standing beside their only child who died following a year's illness. The statue above is imaginative. The tomb is beneath the floor of monument."

References

  1. ^ http://www.forest-lawn.com/Pages/about.html
  2. ^ http://www.buffalonian.com/history/industry/mayors/Walden.htm
  3. ^ http://www.wbuf.noaa.gov/ajmyer.htm.

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