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4 days ago · Check out Woodlawn Cemetery and secret residents, architecture, and 10 facts about one of NYC's largest cemeteries and one of its national historic landmarks.
4 days ago · Opened in 1863, Woodlawn Cemetery is comprised of over 400 acres of rolling hills, circular paths and mausoleums meant to evoke miniature gothic cathedrals, Grecian temples and Egyptian tombs...
5 days ago · Excavations at the Van Cortlandt Mansion, the central structure of an eighteenth-century plantation located in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx, New York, highlight the difficulty of using archaeological evidence to document the story of enslavement in early America.
2 days ago · Woodlawn Cemetery, located on 400 acres (160 ha) and one of the largest cemeteries in New York City, sits on the western bank of the Bronx River near Yonkers. It opened in 1863, in what was then the town of Yonkers, at the time a rural area.
2 days ago · In the edited transcript below, designer Anthony Pellino shares information about Public Garden, 16 Commerce Street, a park proposal he created as a student at The New School in 1983 that was designed to serve, in part, as an AIDS memorial. Less than two years into the U.S. response to the epidemic, Public Garden is currently the earliest known ...
3 days ago · The Brooklyn Bridge Park's published research has influenced entire urban park systems to adopt similar approaches. Currently, Rebecca is an Arboretum curator at the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx. Rebecca's work has been published and featured in the New York Times, the Landscape Institute on NPR and PBS.
5 days ago · Behind the locked doors of Westerly's Woodlawn Cemetery's mausoleums lie more than 1,200 stained glass windows chronicling stained glass in America from the late 1870s to the late 1920s....
