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Rock Creek Cemetery

March 22, 2024

Rock Creek Cemetery is an 86-acre (350,000 m2) cemetery with a natural and rolling landscape located at Rock Creek Church Road, NW, and Webster Street, NW, off Hawaii Avenue, NE, in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C., across the street from the historic Soldiers' Home and the Soldiers' Home Cemetery. It also is home to the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington.

Rock Creek Cemetery
Rock Creek Cemetery in September 2008
LocationWebster Street and Rock Creek Church Road, NW, Washington, D.C., U.S.
Coordinates38°56′52″N 77°0′47″W / 38.94778°N 77.01306°W / 38.94778; -77.01306
Area84.2 acres (34.1 ha)
Built1719
Architectural styleGothic Revival
NRHP reference No.77001498[1]
Added to NRHPAugust 12, 1977

On August 12, 1977, Rock Creek Cemetery and the adjacent church grounds were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery.

History edit

 
The Adams Memorial was designed by famed sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens as a gravestone for Clover Adams, who died by suicide in 1885. A replica sits in the National Portrait Gallery.
 
The mausoleum's interior at Rock Creek Cemetery

The cemetery was first established in 1719 in the British colonial Province of Maryland as a churchyard within the glebe of St. Paul's Episcopal Church within the Rock Creek Parish. Later, the vestry decided to expand the burial ground as a public cemetery to serve the city of Washington, D.C., which had acquired the cemetery within its boundaries as established in 1791. The cemetery was formally recognized and established through an Act of Congress in 1840.

An expanded cemetery was landscaped in the rural garden style, to function as both a cemetery and a public park. It is a ministry of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish, with sections for St. John's Russian Orthodox Church and St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral.

The park-like setting of Rock Creek Cemetery has many notable mausoleums, sculptures, and tombstones. The best known is the Adams Memorial, a contemplative, androgynous bronze sculpture seated before a block of granite that was created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White. It marks the graves of Marian Hooper Adams and her husband, Henry Adams, and sometimes, mistakenly, the sculpture is referred to as Grief.[2][3] Saint-Gaudens entitled it The Mystery of the Hereafter and The Peace of God that Passeth Understanding.

Other notable memorials include the Frederick Keep Monument, the Heurich Mausoleum, the Hitt Monument, the Hardon Monument, the Kauffman Monument that is known as The Seven Ages of Memory, the Sherwood Mausoleum Door, and the Thompson-Harding Monument.[4]

Sculptors of works in the cemetery edit

Numerous fine works by unknown sculptors also exist in the cemetery.[5][6][7]

Notable interments edit

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Gravesite of Emile Berliner and family members

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  • Charles S. Fairfax (1829–1869), Virginia-born California politician who was entitled to the British title 10th Lord Fairfax of Cameron
  • Stephen Johnson Field (1816–1899), Associate justice of US Supreme Court
  • Peter Force (1790–1868), politician, U.S. Army lieutenant in the War of 1812, newspaper editor, archivist, and historian, who served as the twelfth mayor of Washington, D.C., and whose library of historical documents became the first major Americana collection of the Library of Congress
  • Israel Moore Foster (1873–1950), Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives
  • James Edmund France (1906–1920), brother of the co-founder of NASCAR
  • William H. French (1815–1881), major general during the American Civil War and the Mexican War

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Gravesite of Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor

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Gravesite of Oliver Hudson Kelley

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  • Carmel Offie (1909–1972), Central Intelligence Agency official

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Gravesite of George Washington Riggs

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Gravesite of Upton Sinclair

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Gravesite of Charles Doolittle Walcott
 
Grave of Burton K. Wheeler

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  • Helen Yakobson, (1913–2002) academic and professor at George Washington University[14]

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Saint-Gaudens, Augustus" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 5.
  3. ^ . Archived from the original on 2008-05-09. Retrieved 2008-06-29.
  4. ^ . CulturalTourismDC.org. Archived from the original on 2007-10-09. Retrieved 2008-01-12.
  5. ^ Goode, James M. The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C., 1974 pp. 343–352
  6. ^ Kvaran, Einar E., Cemetery Sculpture in America, unpublished manuscript
  7. ^ Marion, John Francis, Famous and Curious Cemeteries, Crown Publishers Inc., New York, 1977 pp. 78–80
  8. ^ Flitter, Emily (2018-11-07). "Evelyn Y. Davis, Shareholder Scourge of C.E.O.s, Dies at 89". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-07-18.
  9. ^ "Dr. Susan Edson Buried". Washington, DC: The Evening Star. 15 November 1897. p. 13. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  10. ^ "Henry Ellsworth Ewing, 1883–1951". Journal of Economic Entomology. 44 (2): 270. 1951. doi:10.1093/jee/44.2.270.
  11. ^ United States Congress. "Thetus W. Sims (id: S000441)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  12. ^ McGrath, Charles (1 August 2012). "Gore Vidal dies at age 86". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Halifax Media Group. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  13. ^ "Wright, John Vines". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. Retrieved 2022-10-04.
  14. ^ "Support Yakobson". Gwu.edu.

External links edit

 
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March 22, 2024
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Rock Creek Cemetery is an 86 acre 350 000 m2 cemetery with a natural and rolling landscape located at Rock Creek Church Road NW and Webster Street NW off Hawaii Avenue NE in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington D C across the street from the historic Soldiers Home and the Soldiers Home Cemetery It also is home to the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington Rock Creek CemeteryU S National Register of Historic PlacesRock Creek Cemetery in September 2008Show map of the District of ColumbiaShow map of the United StatesLocationWebster Street and Rock Creek Church Road NW Washington D C U S Coordinates38 56 52 N 77 0 47 W 38 94778 N 77 01306 W 38 94778 77 01306Area84 2 acres 34 1 ha Built1719Architectural styleGothic RevivalNRHP reference No 77001498 1 Added to NRHPAugust 12 1977On August 12 1977 Rock Creek Cemetery and the adjacent church grounds were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery History edit nbsp The Adams Memorial was designed by famed sculptor Augustus Saint Gaudens as a gravestone for Clover Adams who died by suicide in 1885 A replica sits in the National Portrait Gallery nbsp The mausoleum s interior at Rock Creek CemeteryThe cemetery was first established in 1719 in the British colonial Province of Maryland as a churchyard within the glebe of St Paul s Episcopal Church within the Rock Creek Parish Later the vestry decided to expand the burial ground as a public cemetery to serve the city of Washington D C which had acquired the cemetery within its boundaries as established in 1791 The cemetery was formally recognized and established through an Act of Congress in 1840 An expanded cemetery was landscaped in the rural garden style to function as both a cemetery and a public park It is a ministry of St Paul s Episcopal Church Rock Creek Parish with sections for St John s Russian Orthodox Church and St Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral The park like setting of Rock Creek Cemetery has many notable mausoleums sculptures and tombstones The best known is the Adams Memorial a contemplative androgynous bronze sculpture seated before a block of granite that was created by Augustus Saint Gaudens and Stanford White It marks the graves of Marian Hooper Adams and her husband Henry Adams and sometimes mistakenly the sculpture is referred to as Grief 2 3 Saint Gaudens entitled it The Mystery of the Hereafter and The Peace of God that Passeth Understanding Other notable memorials include the Frederick Keep Monument the Heurich Mausoleum the Hitt Monument the Hardon Monument the Kauffman Monument that is known as The Seven Ages of Memory the Sherwood Mausoleum Door and the Thompson Harding Monument 4 Sculptors of works in the cemetery editGutzon Borglum Rabboni Ffoulke Memorial 1909 James Earle Fraser Frederick Keep Monument 1920 Laura Gardin Fraser Hitt Memorial 1931 William Ordway Partridge Kauffmann Memorial also known as Seven Ages or Memory 1897 Brenda Putnam Simon Memorial 1917 Vinnie Ream Edwin B Hay Monument 1906 Augustus Saint Gaudens Adams Memorial 1890 Mary Washburn Waite Memorial 1909 Adolph Alexander Weinman Spencer Memorial after 1919Numerous fine works by unknown sculptors also exist in the cemetery 5 6 7 Notable interments editContents Top 0 9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z A edit Cleveland Abbe 1838 1916 prominent meteorologist John James Abert 1788 1863 chief of the Corps of Topographical Engineers Henry Adams 1838 1918 writer descendant of two U S presidents grave is marked by the Adams Memorial Clover Hooper Adams 1843 1885 Washington hostess and accomplished amateur photographer wife of Henry Adams grave is marked by the Adams Memorial Alice Warfield Allen 1869 1929 mother of the Duchess of Windsor Wallis Simpson Doug Allison 1846 1916 baseball player Frank Crawford Armstrong 1835 1909 Confederate general Timothy P Andrews 1794 1868 Union Army general and paymaster general of the United States Army 1862 1864 James B Aswell 1869 1931 educator and member of the U S House of Representatives from 1913 to 1931B edit nbsp Gravesite of Emile Berliner and family membersAbraham Baldwin 1754 1807 Yale graduate U S senator attorney signer of the U S Constitution first president of the University of Georgia Cecil A Beasley Alabama state senator Melville Bell 1819 1905 Scottish teacher and inventor father of Alexander Graham Bell Hubbard Bell Grossman Pillot Memorial Eliza Grace Symonds Bell wife of Melville Bell Joseph Bray Bennett 1833 1913 Wisconsin state senator and appointments clerk at the U S Department of Agriculture Andrew H Berding journalist and former Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs Emile Berliner 1851 1929 German born American inventor of the gramophone John W Bischoff 1850 1909 composer and organist Montgomery Blair 1813 1883 Abraham Lincoln s Postmaster General Ben H Brown Jr 1914 1989 former United States ambassador to Liberia Robert C Buchanan 1811 1878 military general during the American Civil War and the Mexican War Robert N Butler 1927 2010 gerontologistC edit Camille Chautemps 1885 1963 prime minister of France Edward Clark 1822 1902 Architect of the Capitol Catherine Cate Coblentz 1897 1951 writer wife of William Coblentz William Coblentz 1873 1962 physicist notable for pioneer contributions to infrared radiometry and spectroscopy William Eleroy Curtis 1850 1911 journalist diplomat and advocate of Pan AmericanismD edit Evelyn Y Davis 1929 2018 American activist shareholder 8 S Wallace Dempsey 1862 1949 Republican politician Hubert Dilger 1836 1911 American Civil War artillerist captain in the Union Army Medal of Honor recipient Gerald A Drew 1903 1970 United States ambassador to Haiti and Bolivia Amanda Ruter Dufour 1822 1899 poetE edit Susan Ann Edson 1823 1897 personal physician to President James A Garfield 9 Matthew Gault Emery 1818 1901 mayor of Washington D C from 1870 to 1871 Henry Ellsworth Ewing 1883 1951 arachnologist 10 F edit Charles S Fairfax 1829 1869 Virginia born California politician who was entitled to the British title 10th Lord Fairfax of Cameron Stephen Johnson Field 1816 1899 Associate justice of US Supreme Court Peter Force 1790 1868 politician U S Army lieutenant in the War of 1812 newspaper editor archivist and historian who served as the twelfth mayor of Washington D C and whose library of historical documents became the first major Americana collection of the Library of Congress Israel Moore Foster 1873 1950 Republican member of the U S House of Representatives James Edmund France 1906 1920 brother of the co founder of NASCAR William H French 1815 1881 major general during the American Civil War and the Mexican WarG edit nbsp Gravesite of Gilbert Hovey GrosvenorJulius Garfinckel 1872 1936 merchant founder of Washington department store Garfinckel s Harry Post Godwin 1857 1900 Chief Editor of the National Republican Washington Star Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor 1875 1966 president of the National Geographic Society Hubbard Bell Grossman Pillot MemorialH edit Mary Berri Chapman Hansbrough 1872 1951 poet and painter John Marshall Harlan 1833 1911 Supreme Court associate justice known as the Great Dissenter wrote the lone dissenting opinion in Plessy v Ferguson Patricia Roberts Harris 1924 1985 ambassador first African American woman to serve in a presidential cabinet George L Harrison 1887 1958 banker insurance executive and political advisor during World War II Patricia McMahon Hawkins 1949 2021 diplomat Frank Hatton 1846 1894 U S postmaster general and editor of the Washington Post Christian Heurich 1842 1945 German born American founder of Heurich Brewery 1871 1954 Samuel Billingsley Hill 1875 1958 U S representative from Washington and member of the United States Board of Tax Appeals now the United States Tax Court William Henry Holmes 1846 1933 known for scientific illustration of the American West his role in the controversy over the antiquity of humans in the Americas and leadership at the Smithsonian InstitutionJ edit Charles Francis Jenkins 1867 1934 television and motion picture pioneer Nelson T Johnson 1887 1954 ambassador James Kimbrough Jones 1839 1908 politician John Johnson 1842 1907 Medal of Honor recipient Opha May Johnson 1879 1955 1st known female U S Marine 1918 K edit nbsp Gravesite of Oliver Hudson KelleySamuel H Kauffmann 1829 1906 newspaper publisher Oliver Hudson Kelley 1826 1913 a founder of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry The Grange Angela Jurdak Khoury 1915 2011 Lebanon s first female diplomat and esteemed member of the Lebanese delegation to the United Nations Sergei Kourdakov 1951 1973 a former KGB agent and defector from the Soviet Union to CanadaL edit Bruce Laingen 1922 2019 diplomat Richard Lawrence 1800 1861 attempted assassin of President Andrew Jackson Jane Lawton 1944 2007 Maryland Democratic politician member of the Maryland House of Delegates Blair Lee III 1916 1985 Democratic politician George E Lemon 1896 patent lawyer and founder of the journal National Tribune Walter Lenox 1817 1874 mayor of Washington from 1850 to 1852 John Lenthall 1807 1882 naval architect and shipbuilder Chief Constructor of the Navy from 1849 to 1853 and chief of the United States Navy s Bureau of Construction and Repair from 1853 to 1871 Fulton Lewis 1903 1966 radio and television broadcaster Alice Roosevelt Longworth 1884 1980 Republican Party icon daughter of Theodore Roosevelt Anthony Francis Lucas 1855 1921 Croatian born mechanical engineerM edit Arthur MacArthur Sr 1815 1896 4th Governor of Wisconsin grandfather of General Douglas MacArthur Frank Mankiewicz 1924 2014 journalist and political adviser Jackie Martin 1903 1969 newspaperwoman Anna Broom McCeney 1850 1903 mother of vaudeville performer La Belle Titcomb Heloise McCeney Hugh McCulloch 1808 1895 Secretary of the Treasury George McGovern 1922 2012 Democratic presidential nominee in 1972 and senator from South Dakota Dempster McIntosh 1896 1984 ambassador Evalyn Walsh McLean 1886 1947 wealthy heiress one time owner of the Hope Diamond and the Washington Post Washington McLean 1816 1890 businessman owner of the Cincinnati Enquirer newspaper John Gordon Mein 1913 1968 ambassador William Rush Merriam 1849 1931 governor of Minnesota father of the United States Census Bureau Mihran Mesrobian 1889 1975 Armenian American architectN edit Elizabeth Norment 1952 2014 actressO edit Carmel Offie 1909 1972 Central Intelligence Agency officialP edit Thomas Nelson Page 1853 1922 First Families of Virginia descendant attorney ambassador to Italy and Southern writer Stephan Panaretoff 1853 1931 educator and the first Bulgarian minister plenipotentiary to the United States William Paret 1826 1911 sixth Episcopal Bishop of Maryland Rosalie Mackenzie Poe 1810 1874 poet and sister of Edgar Allan Poe Terence Powderly 1849 1924 longtime leader of the Knights of Labor Robert Prosky 1930 2008 actorR edit nbsp Gravesite of George Washington RiggsJohn B Raymond 1844 1886 politician Isidor Rayner 1850 1912 Democratic politician U S senator from Maryland George Washington Riggs 1813 1881 banker founder of Riggs Bank William A Rodenberg 1865 1937 politician Frederick Rodgers 1842 1917 United States Navy rear admiral Basil Rodzianko 1915 1999 Bishop of Orthodox Church in America Diocese of the West Tim Russert 1950 2008 journalist host of Meet the PressS edit nbsp Gravesite of Upton SinclairAlexander Robey Shepherd 1835 1902 politician governor of District of Columbia from 1873 to 1874 Thetus W Sims 1852 1939 politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the eighth congressional district of Tennessee from 1897 to 1921 11 Upton Sinclair 1878 1968 author Pulitzer Prize winner Ainsworth Rand Spofford 1825 1908 journalist and publisher sixth Librarian of the United States Congress from 1864 to 1897 Harlan Fiske Stone 1872 1946 Chief Justice of the United States Paulina Longworth Sturm 1925 1957 daughter of Alice Roosevelt and granddaughter of Theodore RooseveltT edit Abner Taylor 1829 1903 politician George Taylor 1820 1894 attorney and Democratic politician Florence Calvert Thorne 1877 1973 labor activist Thomas Weston Tipton 1817 1899 U S senator from Nebraska Ariadna Tyrkova Williams 1869 1962 Russian American writer and journalistV edit nbsp Gravesite of Charles Doolittle Walcott nbsp Grave of Burton K WheelerTran Van Chuong 1898 1986 South Vietnam s ambassador to the U S appointed by Ngo Dinh Diem Willis Van Devanter 1859 1941 U S Supreme Court associate justice Gore Vidal 1925 2012 author and playwright next to his companion of 50 years Howard Austen 12 W edit Charles Doolittle Walcott 1850 1927 Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution Paul Warnke 1920 2001 diplomat assistant secretary of state from 1966 to 1969 SALT Negotiator and Director of the Arms Control and disarmament Agency under President Clinton Sumner Welles 1892 1961 diplomat undersecretary of State from 1937 to 1943 Burton K Wheeler 1882 1975 Democratic politician and U S senator from Montana James Alexander Williamson 1829 1902 Union Army general during the American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient Richard L Wilson 1905 1981 journalist William Windom 1827 1891 U S representative senator secretary of the treasury under James Garfield amp Benjamin Harrison Otis Wingo 1877 1930 U S representative from Arkansas s 4th congressional district 1913 1930 Willie Wood 1936 2020 football player John Vines Wright 1828 1908 U S representative from Tennessee member of the Confederate Congress judge of the Tennessee Supreme Court 13 Y edit Helen Yakobson 1913 2002 academic and professor at George Washington University 14 See also edit nbsp Christianity portalList of cemeteries in the United StatesReferences edit National Register Information System National Register of Historic Places National Park Service March 13 2009 Chisholm Hugh ed 1911 Saint Gaudens Augustus Encyclopaedia Britannica Vol 25 11th ed Cambridge University Press p 5 1886 The Adams Memorial Archived from the original on 2008 05 09 Retrieved 2008 06 29 Cultural Tourism DC CulturalTourismDC org Archived from the original on 2007 10 09 Retrieved 2008 01 12 Goode James M The Outdoor Sculpture of Washington D C Smithsonian Institution Press Washington D C 1974 pp 343 352 Kvaran Einar E Cemetery Sculpture in America unpublished manuscript Marion John Francis Famous and Curious Cemeteries Crown Publishers Inc New York 1977 pp 78 80 Flitter Emily 2018 11 07 Evelyn Y Davis Shareholder Scourge of C E O s Dies at 89 The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 2022 07 18 Dr Susan Edson Buried Washington DC The Evening Star 15 November 1897 p 13 Retrieved 27 November 2017 Henry Ellsworth Ewing 1883 1951 Journal of Economic Entomology 44 2 270 1951 doi 10 1093 jee 44 2 270 United States Congress Thetus W Sims id S000441 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress McGrath Charles 1 August 2012 Gore Vidal dies at age 86 Sarasota Herald Tribune Halifax Media Group Retrieved 3 July 2014 Wright John Vines Biographical Directory of the United States Congress Retrieved 2022 10 04 Support Yakobson Gwu edu External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rock Creek Cemetery Official website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Rock Creek Cemetery amp oldid 1188554479, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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