New York City Marble Cemetery

Not to be confused with New York Marble Cemetery.
New York City Marble Cemetery
The cemetery entrance on an open house day
(May 1, 2011)
New York City Marble Cemetery is located in Lower Manhattan
New York City Marble Cemetery
New York City Marble Cemetery is located in New York
New York City Marble Cemetery
New York City Marble Cemetery is located in the United States
New York City Marble Cemetery
Location52-74 Second Street
Manhattan, New York City, US
Coordinates40°43′29″N 73°59′21″W / 40.72472°N 73.98917°W / 40.72472; -73.98917
Built1831
Websitehttp://www.nycmc.org/
NRHP reference No.80002703 [1]
NYSRHP No.06101.000559
Significant dates
Added to NRHPSeptember 17, 1980[1]
Designated NYSRHPJune 23, 1980
Designated NYCLMarch 4, 1969
The monument to John Lloyd Stephens, with the Mayan glyph designed by his collaborator, Frederick Catherwood in the inset, lower right
A marble marker, used for those vaults without monuments

The New York City Marble Cemetery is a historic cemetery founded in 1831, and located at 52-74 East 2nd Street between First and Second Avenues in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. The cemetery has 258 underground burial vaults constructed of Tuckahoe marble on the site.[2]

The New York City Marble Cemetery, which was the city's second non-sectarian burial place,[3] should not be confused with the nearby New York Marble Cemetery one block west, which was the first, having been established one year earlier. Both cemeteries were designated New York City landmarks in 1969,[4] and in 1980 both were added to the National Register of Historic Places.

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference desrep was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Stateman, Alison (August 31, 2003). "A Cemetery for the Living". The New York Times. Retrieved 2008-03-30. On a quiet side street in the East Village lies the New York City Marble Cemetery, the second nonsectarian cemetery built in Manhattan. Created in 1832 by several enterprising businessmen as a profit-making venture, the cemetery provides a social hub and respite for its neighbors that surpass its original intent. Residents and curious passers-by alike are drawn to the green oasis on East Second Street between First and Second Avenues, sequestered behind an imposing wrought-iron fence and surrounded by a three-sided 12-foot (3.7 m)-high stone wall overhung with ivy.
  4. ^ New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission; Dolkart, Andrew S.; Postal, Matthew A. (2009). Postal, Matthew A. (ed.). Guide to New York City Landmarks (4th ed.). New York: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1., p.68