Graceland Cemetery, Chicago
The Graceland Cemetery is a large Victorian era cemetery and arboretum spread over 119 acres in the north side community area of Uptown.
The Graceland Cemetery is a large Victorian era cemetery and arboretum spread over 119 acres in the north side community area of Uptown. Created in 1860 to designs by landscape architect Ossian Cole Simonds, the beautiful and tranquil is the final resting place of thousands of Chicagoans, from prominent figures such as politicians (Governor John Altgeld and Mayor Carter Harrison), industrialists (George Pullman, Charles Wacker, and Cyrus McCormick), baseball players (Ernie Banks), boxing greats (Jack Johnson), athletes, inventors, and renowned architects (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Louis Sullivan, John Root, and Daniel Burnham) to the historical footnotes like Charles Dickens' brother Augustus. It is dotted with remarkable monuments and memorials which are architectural masterpieces, such as –
- Carrie Eliza Getty Tomb - designed by architect Louis Sullivan for lumber baron Henry Getty's wife. The Chicago School style arch features limestone masonry work and ornate bronze doors.
- Martin Ryerson Mausoleum - Egyptian Revival style mausoleum designed by Louis Sullivan for lumber baron Ryerson.
- Schoenhofen Pyramid Mausoleum - designed by Chicago School architect Richard E. Schmidt as a family mausoleum for brewer Peter Schoenhofen.
- Two statues by sculptor Lorado Taft - Eternal Silence on the Graves family plot, and The Crusader on Victor Lawson's tomb.
- Inez Clarke's Tomb – with a lifesize sculpture of the girl in a transparent plexiglass box, which is believed to be haunted.
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About Graceland Cemetery
4001 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL, United States
+1 773-525-1105
Graceland Cemetery and Nearby Sights on Map
Wunders Cemetery
Overshadowed by the magnificent Graceland Cemetery across the street in Uptown, the smaller, slightly overgrown Wunders was established in 1859 and features some intriguing monuments, with more of a forgotten-by-time atmosphere than its more famous neighbor
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