Oakwood Cemetery | |
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| Location | 940 Comstock Avenue Syracuse, New York, United States |
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| Coordinates | 43°01′53″N 76°08′08″W / 43.03139°N 76.13556°W |
| Area | 160 acres (65 ha) |
| Built | 1859 |
| Architect | Howard Daniels |
| Website | http://www.oakwoodofsyracuse.com/ |
| NRHP reference No. | 91000522[1] |
| Added to NRHP | May 9, 1991 |
Oakwood Cemetery is a 160-acre (65 ha) historic cemetery located in Syracuse, New York. It was designed by Howard Daniels and built in 1859. Oakwood Cemetery was created during a time period in the nineteenth century when the rural cemetery was becoming a distinct landscape type, and is a good example of this kind of landscape architecture.[2]
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The original 92 acres (37 ha) included about 60 acres (24 ha) of dense oak forest with pine, ash, hickory and maple. A crew of 60 laborers without large-scale earth moving equipment thinned and grouped the trees; today there are many 150-year-old specimens. Students of SUNY-ESF and Syracuse University, whose campuses are adjacent to Oakwood, can regularly be seen in the cemetery for instruction on plant species, capturing insect specimens, cemetery studies, or mammal surveys.[2]
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ a b "Shades of Oakwood". Shadesofoakdale.com, 2010. Retrieved July 2, 2011.
- ^ Walts, Gary (8 September 2016). "Look inside Oakwood Cemetery's mortuary chapel in Syracuse". Syracuse.com. Retrieved 8 September 2016.