Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut)

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Cedar Hill Cemetery
CedarHillPyramid.jpg
The Mark Howard monument, one of Cedar Hill's most famous.
Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut) is located in Connecticut
Cedar Hill Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut)
Location 453 Fairfield Ave., in Hartford, Wethersfield, and Newington, Connecticut
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Built 1865
Architect multiple, including Weidenmann, Jacob
Architectural style Gothic, Queen Anne, Modern Movement
NRHP Reference # 97000333[1][2]
Added to NRHP April 28, 1997

Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut is located at 453 Fairfield Avenue. It was designed by landscape architect Jacob Weidenmann (1829–1893) who also designed Hartford's Bushnell Park. Its first sections were completed in 1866 and the first burial took place on July 17, 1866. Cedar Hill was designed as an American rural cemetery in the tradition of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The cemetery straddles three towns. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, in Hartford, Newington, and Wethersfield.[1][3] It includes the Cedar Hill Cemetery Gateway and Chapel, also known as Northam Memorial Chapel and Gallup Memorial Gateway, which is separately listed on the NRHP.

Cedar Hill Cemetery encompasses 270 acres (1.1 km2) and includes several historic buildings, including the Northam Memorial Chapel (built 1882), which was designed by Hartford architect George Keller, and the Superintendent's Cottage (built 1875), which continues to be occupied by Cedar Hill's Superintendent to this day.

Open from dawn til dusk 365 days a year, Cedar Hill Cemetery welcomes visitors to walk the grounds and partake in the expansive art, history and natural resources this park-like space has to offer.

Notable monuments

Cynthia Talcott monument

Cedar Hill has many unique monuments. One of the most recognizable is the 18-foot (5.5 m) tall pink-granite pyramid, and life-sized angel statue, erected in memory of Mark Howard and his wife, Angelina Lee Howard. Mark Howard was president of the National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford and Connecticut's first internal revenue collector.[4]

Another example of an unusual grave is that of Cynthia Talcott, age two, which features her likeness in stone.

John Pierpont Morgan's family monument was designed by architect George W. Keller. Made of red Scottish granite, the monument was designed to portray Morgan's vision of the Ark of the Covenant.[5]

The Porter-Valentine mausoleum features a stained-glass window created by Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Notable burials

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The grave of Katharine Hepburn
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Family plot of Yung Wing, the first Chinese graduate of an American university, Yale.
File:General Griffin A. Stedman Monument at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT 01.JPG
General Stedman Monument, sculpted by John M. Moffit
File:Weidenman Family Headstone at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT - May 2015.JPG
Weidenman family headstone

More than 30,000 people are buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery, including many Hartford notables such as:[6]

File:Horace Wells Monument, Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT - February 2016.JPG
Horace Wells monument (1909), Louis Potter, sculptor

Image gallery: Monuments

  • Angel Sculpture, Mark Howard Family Monument at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT - January 2016.JPG

    Angel sculpture, Mark Howard monument

  • Oswin Welles Family Monument at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT - January 2016.JPG

    Statue atop Oswin Welles monument, sculpted by Carl Conrads (1873)

  • General Griffin A. Stedman Monument at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT 02.JPG

    General Stedman monument, sculpted by John M. Moffit

  • Hunt Family Monument at Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT - January 2016.JPG

    Hunt family monument, sculpted by Carl Conrads

  • Statue atop Clark family monument, designed by Truman Howe Bartlett (1868) and sculpted by Ferdinand von Miller (1869)

  • Colt Family Monument (Randolph Rogers, sculptor), Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT - February 2016.jpg

    Angel of the Resurrection atop Colt family monument, sculpted by Randolph Rogers (1864)[11]

  • Marshall Jewell Monument (Carl Conrads, sculptor), Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT - February 2016.jpg

    Statue atop Marshall Jewell monument, sculpted by Carl Conrads

  • Windsor Family Monument by Carl Conrads, Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT - April 2016.JPG

    Statue atop John B. Windsor monument, sculpted by Carl Conrads (circa 1887-1905)

Image gallery: Trees

  • Weeping European Beech Tree in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford-Wethersfield, CT - June 2011.jpg

    Weeping European Beech, June 2011

  • Weeping European Beech Tree beneath canopy, Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT - June 3, 2011.jpg

    Weeping European Beech, June 2011

  • Ginkgo Tree, Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT - November 2, 2014.jpg

    Ginkgo, November 2014

  • Purple Japanese Threadleaf Maple, Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT - July 16, 2011.jpg

    Purple Japanese Threadleaf Maple, July 2011

  • Japanese Threadleaf Maple, Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT - November 5, 2013.jpg

    Japanese Threadleaf Maple Trees, November 2013

  • Ed Richardson with Japanese Threadleaf Maple in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford, CT - June 29, 2013.jpg

    Ed Richardson with Japanese Threadleaf Maple, June 2013 This tree was planted in honor of Mr. Richardson's work measuring and mapping the trees of Cedar Hill Cemetery.

  • Pink Weeping Cherry, Cedar Hill Cemetery, Wethersfield, CT - March 27, 2012.jpg

    Pink Weeping Cherry Tree, March 2012

See also

References

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  2. ↑ actual announcement, on weekly listings on the NRHP
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  5. ↑ Architectural Gems. Courant.com (2007-07-06). Retrieved on 2013-08-21.
  6. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  7. ↑ Edwin Denison Morgan, Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Accessed April 25, 2008.
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  11. ↑ Inscription at base of statue shows date as "MDCCCLXIV" (1864).

External links

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