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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1786/02/03 Nathaniel Beecher Died Nathaniel Beecher dies in New Haven, Connecticut. He is buried in Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, Connecticut.
1796/00/00 Josiah Meigs Surveyor A group of citizens under the leadership of James Hillhouse, commission Josiah Meigs to survey a burial ground of several hundred plots, 18 feet by 32 feet, that can be sold to individual families.
1817/01/11 Timothy Dwight Died Timothy Dwight dies in New Haven, New Haven County, Connecticut.
1831/05/10 Jeremiah F Evarts Died Jeremiah Evarts dies of tuberculosis in Charleston, South Carolina. Mr Evarts is buried at the Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut.
1843/05/31 Noah Webster In Memoriam After a funeral conducted by Rev Dr Taylor and Rev Mr Dutton, Noah Webster is buried at Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven.
1845/00/00 Henry Austin Architect The cemetery committee hires architect Henry Austin to design a large Egyptian Revival entrance gate on Grove Street.
1848/00/00 Hezekiah Augur Architect In the 1840s, Aaron Skinner supervises the installation of the entrance gate, wall and new landscape. Hezekiah Augur designed the enclosure, with the stone wall costing $11,000 and the iron fence $3,500. The cost of the new plantings was $2,400.
1848/00/00 Isaac Thompson Mason The entrance gate is erected by Isaac Thompson at a cost of $5,600.
1863/01/10 Lyman Beecher Died Lyman Beecher dies in Brooklyn, New York. He is buried in Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Particulars for Grove Street Cemetery:
Area of Significance Architecture
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Area of Significance Art
Funerary Cemetery
Area of Significance Community Planning and Development
Criteria Exemplar
Architectural Style Exotic revival
Architectural Style Gothic Revival
Area of Significance Landscape Architecture
Level of Significance National
Sight Category Site



US National Registry of Historic Places Data »

Accurate at time of registration:

PLACE DETAILS
Registry Name:
Registry Address:
Registry Number: 97000830
Resource Type:
Owner: Private
Architect: Augur, Hezekiah; Austin, Henry
Architectural Style: Exotic revival, Gothic revival
Other Certification: Date received-pending nomination, Designated National Landmark
Nominator Name: National Historic Landmark
CULTURAL DETAILS
Level of Significance: National
Area of Significance: Art, Landscape architecture, Architecture, Community Planning and Development
Applicable Criteria: Architecture-Engineering, Event
Criteria Consideration: Cemetery
Significant Year: 1796, 1848, 1872
Historic Function: Funerary
Historic Sub-Function: Cemetery
Current Function: Funerary
Current Sub-Function: Cemetery

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