Green Hill Cemetery Historic District | |
Location | 486 E. Burke St., Martinsburg, West Virginia |
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Coordinates | 39°27′13″N 77°57′20″W / 39.45361°N 77.95556°W |
Area | 19 acres (7.7 ha) |
Architect | Small, Wendell S.; Strother, David Hunter |
Architectural style | Shingle Style |
MPS | Berkeley County MRA |
NRHP reference No. | 80004433 [1] |
Added to NRHP | December 10, 1980 |
Green Hill Cemetery Historic District is a national historic district located at Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia. The 15-acre (6.1 ha) site encompasses two contributing buildings, one contributing site, and 22 contributing objects. The rural cemetery was designed in 1854 by David Hunter Strother modeled on a French cemetery. It includes a Neoclassical Revival style mausoleum (1917–1918) and a Shingle Style caretaker's lodge (1901). The cemetery includes a number of notable monuments, as well as the graves of Strother and his family.[2][3]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]
Burials within the cemetery include that of actor Robert Barrat (1889–1970), George Meade Bowers (1863–1925), a Representative from 1916 to 1923 and David Hunter Strother (1816–1888), a noted artist, journalist and brevet brigadier general in the Union Army.