
Woodlawn Cemetery is one of the largest cemeteries in New York City and a designated National Historic Landmark (added to the list on 23 Jun 2011). The cemetery was opened during the Civil War in 1863 in what was then southern Westchester County. The area was annexed to New York City in 1874.

Per their website: https://www.thewoodlawncemetery.org/history/
Established in 1863, Woodlawn is an active, 400-acre non-sectarian cemetery. An oasis in an urban setting, more than 310,000 individuals are interred on its grounds and it attracts over 100,000 visitors from around the world each year.
Recognized as one of America’s most historically significant properties, Woodlawn was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2011, joining a rarified roster of 2500 sites nationwide. Described by the National Parks Service as “a popular final resting place for the famous and powerful,” the cemetery is distinguished by memorials that “represent the largest and finest collection of funerary art in the country.”
Woodlawn was established by a group of prominent New Yorkers who envisioned a burial ground easily accessible from Manhattan. It is designed in the landscape-lawn style popular after the Civil War, which emphasizes the relationship between landscape and classical architecture. Its curvilinear road system provides views of large, singular monuments on family plots and circular lots. Propelled by location, clientele, and unprecedented wealth, Woodlawn rapidly grew to become the outdoor showplace of distinctive masterworks you see today.
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Noted cemetery website: In 1882, Jay Gould, the infamous financier, purchased the largest lot in the cemetery and proceeded to build what was considered the finest mausoleum of the day. Gould’s project was publicized in a variety of publications, inspiring many entrepreneurs to construct family tombs at Woodlawn. Huntington, Dodge, Bostwick, Webb, and Warner are among the hundreds of self made millionaires who commissioned mausolea that reflected their tastes and travel, incorporated work by celebrated sculptors, and artisans and celebrated their role in New York society. Greek temples, Egyptian pyramids and French chapels were built by the late 19th celebrities who became famous for grand mansions in Manhattan, extravagant Newport “cottages,” and waterfront estates on Long Island’s Gold Coast.
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Circus Showman. Along with Phineas T. Barnum, he helped found Barnum and Bailey Circus, which became known as “The Greatest Show On Earth”. In 1872, he partner with Philadelphian James E, Cooper to form “Cooper and Bailey’s Circus”, and toured the United States, Java, New Zealand and South America. In 1873 Cooper died and James Bailey soon joined up with Barnum. They toured for several years until Barnum died in 1891. Bailey took over the circus the same year and it made several triumphant trips around the world under his leadership. In 1906 he died and the circus company soon became part of the Ringling Brothers Company. It is known to this day as the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus.
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Notable Burials At Woodlawn Cemetery, Bronx NY:
A
- Charles H. Adams, politician
- Anthony Allaire
- Vivian Beaumont Allen
- Vincent Alo
- Anastasia, Princess of Greece and Denmarkburied with her parents in the family mausoleum.
- John Murray Anderson
- Alexander Archipenko
- Herman Ossian Armour
- Hugh D. Auchincloss
- James C. Auchincloss
B
- Benjamin Babbitt
- Jules Bache
- James Anthony Bailey
- Joseph C. Baldwin
- Billy Bang
- Frances Elizabeth Barrow
- Diana Barrymore
- Nora Bayes
- Charles Becker
- Digby Bell
- Laura Joyce Bell
- Alva Belmont
- Oliver Belmont
- Irving Berlin, songwriter, musician, and bandleader
- Maximilian Berlitz
- Samuel Rossiter Betts
- Amelia Bingham
- Ausburn Birdsall
- Elizabeth Bisland
- Cornelius Bliss
- Nellie Bly
- Coralie Blythe
- George Boldt
- Robert W. Bonynge
- Emma Booth, involved with the Salvation Army
- Gail Borden
- Bostwick family
- Anne Lynch Botta
- William V. Brady, Mayor of New York City
- Josephine Brandell
- Boris Brasol
- Herbert Brenon
- Bricktop
- Benjamin Bristow
- Addison Brown
- Henry Bruckner, Bronx Borough President
- Charles Waldron Buckley
- Ralph Bunche, United Nations official and diplomat
- Richard Busteed
- Benjamin Franklin Butler (1795-1858), lawyer
- Charles Butler
C
- Hervey C. Calkin
- Harry Carey
- Charles A. Carleton
- Vernon and Irene Castle, well-known husband & wife dancing team, movie stars
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- Alfred Chapin
- John Wilbur Chapman, Evangelist, Author, Hymn Writer
- Robert Chesebrough
- Joseph Hodges Choate, lawyer, diplomat
- Bobby Clark (comedian)
- Horace F. Clark
- Huguette Clark
- William A. Clark
- Henry Clews
- George M. Cohan – bronze statue in center of Times Square
- Barron Collier
- Ida Conquest
- Austin Corbin
- Ricardo Cortez
- Lotta Crabtree
- William Nelson Cromwell
- Celia Cruz[12]
- Countee Cullen
- Frederick Kingsbury Curtis
D
- Leopold Damrosch
- Jess Dandy
- Miles Davis[12]
- Clarence Day
- Zachariah Deas
- Cornelius H. DeLamater
- George W. De Long
- Rafael Díez de la Cortina y Olaeta, linguist
- Sidney Dillon
- E.L. Doctorow
- Charles Cleveland Dodge, Brigadier General (youngest), American Civil War
- William E. Dodge
- Richard Dorson
- Paul Du Chaillu
- Vernon Duke
- Finley Peter Dunne
- William C. Durant
E
- Gertrude Ederle, record-setting swimmer
- Gus Edwards
- Duke Ellington[12]
- Albert Ellis
F
- Benjamin L. Fairchild
- David Farragut
- Edoardo Ferrari-Fontana
- Bud Fisher
- Clara Fisher
- Rudolph Fisher
- Clyde Fitch
- Geraldine Fitzgerald
- James Montgomery Flagg
- Joe Foy, baseball player
- Frankie Frisch, baseball player
- Antoinette Perry Frueauff
- Aretha Louise Franklin
G
- Tommy Gagliano
- Lindley Miller Garrison
- Francis Patrick Garvan
- John Warne Gates
- Charles Sidney Gilpin
- Thomas F. Gilroy, Mayor of New York City
- Ambrosio José Gonzales
- Jay Gould
- Archibald Gracie
- Archibald Gracie III, Confederate General
- Archibald Gracie IV, Titanic survivor
- Charles K. Graham, Union General & Civil Engineer
- George Bird Grinnell, anthropologist, historian, naturalist, and writer.
- Lawrence Grossmith, English actor
- Simon Guggenheim
H
- Oscar Hammerstein, Sr.
- Lionel Hampton
- W. C. Handy
- Edward Harkness, philanthropist
- Lamon V. Harkness, businessman, stockholder in Standard Oil, yachtsman
- William L. Harkness
- Charles K. Harris
- William Frederick Havemeyer, businessman, Mayor of New York City
- Coleman Hawkins
- Millicent Hearst
- August Heckscher
- John Held, Jr.
- Victor Herbert
- Adelaide Herrmann
- Alexander Herrmann
- Christian Archibald Herter
- John D. Hertz, businessman, thoroughbred racehorse owner and breeder
- Jim Holdsworth, baseball player
- Celeste Holm, actress
- Richard Hudnut
- Charles Evans Hughes, 11th Chief Justice of the United States
- Harold Hunter, skateboarder
- Arabella Huntington
- Collis P. Huntington
- Barbara Hutton
- Henry Baldwin Hyde
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K
L
- Fiorello La Guardia
- Scott La Rock
- Daniel S. Lamont
- Walter W. Law
- Canada Lee
- Henry Lehman
- Frank Leslie
- J. C. Leyendecker, illustrator
- Harold Lockwood
- Frank Belknap Long
- Mansfield Lovell, Confederate officer
- August Guido Lüchow, restaurateur
- George Platt Lynes
M
- Rowland Macy
- Frankie Manning, dancer, instructor, and choreographer
- Martha Mansfield
- Vito Marcantonio, politician
- Dewey Markham
- Alfred Erskine Marling
- Louis Marx, toy merchant
- Bat Masterson, lawman, writer
- Victor Maurel
- Peter Masella, jeweler
- William McAdoo
- Josiah Calvin McCracken
- Alice Foote MacDougall, restaurateur
- George A. McGuire
- Jackie McLean, musician
- George McManus, cartoonist
- Roi Cooper Megrue, playwright
- Marie Mattingly Meloney
- Herman Melville, author
- Dean Meminger
- Mario Merola (1922–1987), lawyer, New York City Councilman, and Bronx County District Attorney
- William P. Merrill
- Cyrus Miller, lacrosse player
- Gilbert Miller
- Marilyn Miller
- Norma Miller
- Florence Mills
- John Purroy Mitchel, Mayor of New York City
- John Bassett Moore
- Paul Morton
- Robert Moses, government official, planner, builder, and Parks Department Commissioner of New York City
N
- Thomas Nast, political cartoonist
- LeRoy Neiman, artist
- Harold Nicholas
- Ruth Rowland Nichols
- Hideyo Noguchi
- James W. Nye
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P
- Augustus G. Paine, Jr.
- Felix Pappalardi
- James Cash Penney
- Antoinette Perry, actress, director and co-founder of the American Theatre Wing
- Alex Pompez, African-American baseball executive
- Generoso Pope
- George B. Post
- Otto Preminger, film director
- Samuel I. Prime
- Frederick Freeman Proctor, vaudevilleimpresario
- Joseph Pulitzer, newspaper owner and founder of Pulitzer prize
- Mihajlo Pupin
R
- Charles Ranhofer
- Norman B. Ream[13][14]
- Theodor Reik
- Gaetano Reina
- Lance Reventlow
- Grantland Rice
- Vincent Richards
- Tex Rickard
- Max Roach
- Delmar “Barney” Roos
- Margaret Rudkin, Pepperidge Farm founder
- Dick Rudolph, major league baseball pitcher, one of 17 who was allowed to continue to throw the spitball after baseball made against the rules in 1920
- Damon Runyon
S
- Ada “Bricktop” Smith, dancer, jazz singer, vaudevillian and saloon-keeper
- Ruth Brown Snyder
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton, early women’s rights activist
- Joseph Stella, artist
- Josef Stránský, Czech conductor, composer, and art collector
- Ida Straus
- Isidor Straus– owner of Macy’s Department Store, Democratic member of the 53rd Congress of the United States, victim of the sinking of the RMS Titanic
- William Lafayette Strong, Mayor of New York City
- William Matheus Sullivan, prominent New York City lawyer and patron of music
- Karl Struss
T
- Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, artist
- Jōkichi Takamine
- Clarice Taylor
- Jerry Thomas, bartender
- Olive Thomas
- Lloyd Tilghman, Confederate General
- Dan Topping
- Henry Tremain, Union Brevet Brigadier General
U
V
- Abraham Van Buren
- Robert Anderson Van Wyck, first Mayor of Greater New York City
- Virginia Fair Vanderbilt