New York Marble Cemetery

New York Marble Cemetery
The entrance gate on Second Avenue (2011)
New York Marble Cemetery is located in New York City
New York Marble Cemetery
New York Marble Cemetery is located in New York
New York Marble Cemetery
New York Marble Cemetery is located in the United States
New York Marble Cemetery
Location41½ Second Avenue
Manhattan, New York City, US
Coordinates40°43′32.3″N 73°59′27.5″W / 40.725639°N 73.990972°W / 40.725639; -73.990972
Area0.5 acres (0.20 ha)
Built1830
NRHP reference No.80004475[1]
NYSRHP No.06101.000558
Significant dates
Added to NRHPSeptember 17, 1980[1]
Designated NYSRHPJune 23, 1980
Designated NYCLMarch 4, 1969

The New York Marble Cemetery is a burial ground established in 1830 in what is now the East Village of Manhattan. It occupies the interior of the block bounded by 2nd Street, Second Avenue, 3rd Street, and the Bowery. It is entered through an alleyway with an iron gate at each end, located between 41 and 43 Second Avenue. About 2,100 burials are recorded in the cemetery's written registers, most from prominent professional and merchant families in New York City.[2][3]

The New York Marble Cemetery, which was New York City's first non-sectarian burial place, should not be confused with the nearby New York City Marble Cemetery one block east, which is entirely separate, and was established one year later. 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. ^ "List of Interments". New York Marble Cemetery. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
  3. ^ "Workmen Reveal an Old Cemetery" (PDF). New York Times. 4 November 1907. Retrieved 8 November 2014.
  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.62