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“In 1837, the City of Rochester purchased a tract of almost fifty-four acres and dedicated it for cemetery purposes on 3 October 1838. It was the first of the great Victorian cemeteries to be developed by a municipality. In 1839 the City built a decorative entrance and in 1874 replaced an early gatehouse with the present cemetery office and belltower, a neo-Romanesque design of the Rochester architect, A.J. Warner. The elaborate design of the entrance area was expanded by the construction of the Gothic chapel in 1863, by the ornamental fountain surrounded by a circular drive, by the white Moorish revival gazebo to the right of the entrance drive, and in 1912 by the addition of a crematorium to the chapel. The crematorium was the work of J. Foster Warner, the son of the architect of the office.”

Photographed at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York

43° 7′ 42″ N, 77° 37′ 17″ W

Description
“In 1837, the City of Rochester purchased a tract of almost fifty-four acres and dedicated it for cemetery purposes on 3 October 1838. It was the first of the great Victorian cemeteries to be developed by a municipality. In 1839 the City built a decorative entrance and in 1874 replaced an early gatehouse with the present cemetery office and belltower, a neo-Romanesque design of the Rochester architect, A.J. Warner. The elaborate design of the entrance area was expanded by the construction of the Gothic chapel in 1863, by the ornamental fountain surrounded by a circular drive, by the white Moorish revival gazebo to the right of the entrance drive, and in 1912 by the addition of a crematorium to the chapel. The crematorium was the work of J. Foster Warner, the son of the architect of the office.”

Photographed at Mt. Hope Cemetery in Rochester, New York

43° 7′ 42″ N, 77° 37′ 17″ W