The Evergreens Cemetery | |
 Southern (Bushwick Avenue) entrance | |
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| Location | 1629 Bushwick Ave., Brooklyn, New York |
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| Coordinates | 40°41′2.0″N 73°54′4.3″W / 40.683889°N 73.901194°W |
| Area | 225 acres (91 ha) |
| Built | 1849 |
| Architect | Vaux, Calvert; etc |
| NRHP reference No. | 07001192[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 15, 2007 |
The Cemetery of the Evergreens, also called The Evergreens Cemetery, is a non-denominational rural cemetery[2] along the Cemetery Belt in Brooklyn and Queens, New York City. It was incorporated in 1849, not long after the passage of New York's Rural Cemetery Act spurred development of cemeteries outside Manhattan. For a time, it was the busiest cemetery in New York City; in 1929 there were 4,673 interments. Today, the Evergreens is the final resting place of more than 526,000 people.[3]
The cemetery borders Brooklyn and Queens and covers 225 acres (0.91 km2) of rolling hills and gently sloping meadows. It features several thousand trees and flowering shrubs in a park-like setting. Cypress Hills Cemetery lies to its northeast.
- ^ "National Register Information System – (#07001192)". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
- ^ Linden, Blanche M.G. (2007). Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery. Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press. p. 295. ISBN 978-1558495715. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
- ^ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on 2019-04-04. Retrieved 2016-05-01. Note: This includes Kathleen A. Howe (August 2007). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Evergreens Cemetery" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-01. and Accompanying 26 photographs