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  Graceland Cemetery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Graceland Cemetery is a large Victorian-era cemetery located in the North Side neighborhood of Lakeview, in the city of Chicago, Illinois.
Many of the cemetery's tombs are of great architectural or artistic interest, including the mausoleums of Henry Harrison Getty, the Ryerson family (both designed by architect Louis Sullivan, who is also buried here), and the Schoenhofen Pyramid Mausoleum.
The industrialist George Pullman was buried at night, in a lead-lined coffin within an elaborately reinforced steel-and-concrete vault, to prevent his body from being exumed and desecrated by labor activists.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Graceland_Cemetery   (251 words)

  
 Cemetery Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
As a result, Graceland was a prosperous cemetery with 300-400 burials per year on average.
Among the landmarks at Graceland are the prominent Toy banking family's James F. Toy Mausoleum, the memorial statue of a Spanish American War Soldier in honor of those who died in that conflict, and the grave of Sioux City's own William "Bill" Harding who served as Governor of Iowa from 1916-1921.
Floyd Cemetery is the location of a bandstand dedicated to the memory of the veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic (Civil War Veterans).
www.sioux-city.org /parks_rec/cemetery_information.htm   (421 words)

  
 GRACELAND CEMETERY
This cemetery is perhaps the most historic, and the most beautiful, of all of Chicago's many burial grounds.
The ghost stories and tales of the unexplained that have come from within the cemetery walls are numerous and varied but there are two that are probably the most famous...
Graceland Cemetery is located at the coming of Irving Park Road and Clark Street in Chicago..
www.prairieghosts.com /grace.html   (792 words)

  
 Press Releases   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Cemetery staff will be available to provide directions and information as needed and they will also have informational brochures and maps to hand out.
Over the past year, the office at Graceland Park Cemetery was updated with the installation of a new roof and vinyl siding.
We improved the north entry to Graceland cemetery by adding a new roof and vinyl siding to the office.
www.sioux-city.org /interactive/press_releases_results.asp?key=532   (386 words)

  
 Graceland Cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Graceland Cemetery is one of Chicago's best-known and most historic cemeteries.
The original City Cemetery was on the lake front, and was considered a health hazard due to overcrowding and water-borne diseases.
Graceland is on the north side of Chicago, with its main entrance at the corner of Clark and Irving Park roads, extending north and east from that point.
www.graveyards.com /graceland   (166 words)

  
 Graceland Cemetery Home
Graceland Cemetery Association, Inc., is a non-profit, tax-exempt cemetery corporation whose purpose is to operate, maintain, and beautify the historic Graceland Cemetery in Abbeville, Louisiana.
The Board of Directors of Graceland Cemetery Association is comprised of representatives from several community service organizations in Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, including the Abbeville Masonic Lodge No. 192, the Vermilion Historical Society, the Abbeville Woman's Club, the Abbeville Lions Club, the Abbeville Rotary Club, the Woodmen of the World, the Vermilion Genealogy Society, and others.
Graceland Cemetery makes no representation that it is a perpetual care cemetery as that term is defined by Louisiana law.
www.gracelandcemetery.com   (425 words)

  
 Graceland Cemetery Fraud - Timeline
I, John Bartus, feel that it would have been only common courtesy for the cemetery to call me because they were having problems with the burial, which was their contracted and paid for responsibility (Opening and closing cost and the provider of the vault).
The letter also gave the cemetery all phone numbers and the times of the day they could call me to advise me that the memorial arrived and was ready for my inspection.
We believe that Graceland East is directly responsible for these activities because it was the responsibility of your company to supply the burial vault.
members.aol.com /jebartus/timeline.html   (1516 words)

  
 Graceland Obituaries--Abbeville
The establishment of the Graceland Cemetery was announced by the Meridional on June 27, 1908, as follows:
Originally, the Graceland Cemetery and the New Masonic Cemetery were separate entities, although they were side-by-side on the same four-arpent tract.
Later, the cemetery was enlarged by adding property to the west and to the north of the original two tracts.
www.vermilionhistorical.com /features/Topics/obituaries_of_first_100.htm   (6460 words)

  
 Inside Publications - Graceland Cemetery brings to mind more than the dead; INSIDE Newspaper Serving Chicago's North ...
Located in Chicago's Lake View neighborhood, Graceland Cemetery occupies nearly 120 acres at the northeast corner of Irving Park Rd. and Clark St. Amongst the quiet beauty of H.W.S. Cleveland and O.C. Simonds' historic and original landscape designs are many architectural gems, including the Getty Tomb by Louis Sullivan and Eternal Silence by Lorado Taft.
Graceland Cemetery received a special charter by act of the state legislature of Illinois in 1861.
Graceland Cemetery is listed in the National Register of Historic Places by the U.S. Department of the Interior.
www.insideonline.com /site/epage/5883_162.htm   (273 words)

  
 washingtonpost.com: Style Live: Travel
It is the only baseball monument in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery, but it is not the most strange or beautiful grave marker there.
Graceland, a lovely urban sanctuary founded in 1860, is the patrician resting place of a different kind of heavy hitter--Chicago business tycoons, politicians, socialites.
Graceland is a 15-minute cab or bus ride from downtown Chicago.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/travel/index/stories/terry05161999.htm   (647 words)

  
 Graceland/Fairlawn Funeral Home, Cemeteries & Cremation Center
Transportation Allowance - Transportation allowance will be reimbursed by the VA for transportation expenses from the place of death to the funeral home and to the cemetery for a veteran who died in a VA hospital, or VA contracted health care facility.
For burial in a private cemetery, a simple marker for veterans ONLY will be provided, if the grave is unmarked.
Burial in a National Cemetery - Free grave space is available for a veteran, spouse and dependent children.
www.gracelandfairlawn.com /vets.aspx   (225 words)

  
 Jennie Curtis' Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
She was buried on 23 October 1944 in Graceland Cemetery at Avoca, Iowa.
He is buried in Graceland Cemetery at Avoca, Iowa.
She is buried in Graceland Cemetery at Avoca, Iowa.
home.comcast.net /~hlgruss/curtis7.html   (333 words)

  
 Quincy National Cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
By 1890, the Quincy National Cemetery was described as a lot measuring 92 feet by 124 feet within Woodland Cemetery, “enclosed by a dressed limestone curbing on 3 sides and by a picket board fence and an osage orange hedge 5 feet 6 inches high on the fourth or north side.
During 1949, a survey of the cemetery was conducted and revealed that mistakes occurred in the erection of the perimeter fence.
Cemetery policies are conspicuously posted and readily visible to the public.
www.cem.va.gov /nchp/quincy.htm   (1058 words)

  
 Cemetery Records
The cemetery is on the right side of the country road, just beyond the intersection.
The cemetery is on the right side of the country road.
The cemetery is on the south side of the road.
polk.wathenadesigns.com /cemetery_records.html   (528 words)

  
 Graceland Cemetary
Graceland, the second rural cemetery in Chicago, began development in 1860.
Graceland Cemetery provided Simonds with his first opportunity to express a unique, regional style of landscape design.
The rural cemetery soon became the prototype on which public parks and entire residential communities were based.
www.il-asla.org /medallions/graceland.htm   (216 words)

  
 COAST TO COAST AM WITH GEORGE NOORY
Graceland Cemetery has been around for well over 150 years.
It is one the oldest cemeteries in Chicago.
That afternoon when I got to the cemetery, camera in hand, I started taking snap shots of old headstones, mausoleums and crypts hoping to catch a chance ghost or spector on film.
www.coasttocoastam.com /gen/page115.html   (343 words)

  
 Graceland Cemetery Walking Tour - Citysearch
Graceland Cemetery, on Chicago's north side, is the resting place of some of the city's biggest names, including John Kinzie, George Pullman, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Marshall Field.
The two-hour tour begins at the Graceland Cemetery entrance at Clark Street and Irving Park Road.
Meet inside the cemetery entrance, at the northeast corner of Clark Street and Irving Park Road.
chicago.citysearch.com /profile/38066141/graceland_cemetery_walking_...   (254 words)

  
 Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois: Sullivan Society
Graceland Cemetery embodies an outstanding landscape design achievement, created by the vision of some of the nation’s most significant landscape designers and engineers.
Graceland’s exceptional landscape is interspersed with superb monuments, which exemplify the finest late-19th and early-20th century art, architecture, and craftsmanship.
Kuehn serves on the national board of the Society of Architectural Historians, is a trustee of the Graham Foundation, and is a member of the executive committee of the Chicago Architecture Foundation.
www.landmarks.org /sullivan_events.htm   (253 words)

  
 Graceland Cemetery -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Graceland Cemetery is a large Victorian-era cemetery located in the North Side neighborhood of (A residential part of town away from the central commercial district) Uptown, in the city of (Click link for more info and facts about Chicago, Illinois) Chicago, Illinois.
Established in 1860, its main entrance is at Clark and Irving Park, the Sheridan stop on the Red Line is the nearest L station.
Many of the cemetery's tombs are of great architectural or artistic interest, including the mausoleums of Henry Harrison Getty the Ryerson family and the Schoenhofer Pyramid Mausoleum.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gr/graceland_cemetery.htm   (621 words)

  
 Graceland Cemetery Fraud - Disinterment & Conclusion
I contend that as long as I am a property (plot) owner at Graceland, it is my duty and responsibility to expose the dishonest actions by the cemetery and its owners.
Graceland East had removed soil from top and sides of Dolores Bartus' burial vault when Tommy McAfee arrived at tbe cemetery around 8:15 a.m.
A cemetery tent with sidewalls was erected for the operation of opening old vault, removing remains from casket (Aurora Kensington Solid Cherry Casket), and transferring remains to a new Aurora Stainless Steel Nutmeg Casket #3654.
members.aol.com /jebartus/conclusion.html   (566 words)

  
 The Political Graveyard: Washington city, D.C.
Trinity Churchyard, Manhattan, N.Y.; reinterment in 1828 at Congressional Cemetery.
Frankford Cemetery, Frankford, Philadelphia, Pa.; reinterment in 1848 at Congressional Cemetery.
Oak Grove Cemetery, Nacogdoches, Tex.; cenotaph at Congressional Cemetery.
politicalgraveyard.com /geo/DC/wa5.html   (3529 words)

  
 Just the Arti-FACTS - Graveyards   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Graceland Cemetery was established in 1860 by Virgina lawyer Thomas Bryan, who later became one of the directors of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.
The original cemetery lay on eighty-six acres of land in the town of Lake View, six miles north of downtown Chicago, with its main entrance at Clark Street and Irving Park Road and the grounds extending northeast from there.
Graceland was designed as a garden cemetery where people could visit the dead in a park-like setting unlike the stark burial grounds of the past.
www.chicagohs.org /aotm/oct98/oct98fact1d.html   (267 words)

  
 SeniorCitizensCom (SM): Funeral Planning : Cemetery Plots : South Carolina
Cemetery plot ads are $10 per month, or $25 for three months.
Email us your ad, making sure to include the name and address of the cemetary, where the plots are located within the cemetery, how much you are asking for the plots, and how you would like to be contacted.
Graceland Employees will show Lot, and gave an appraisal for $1,535.00 each.
www.seniorcitizens.com /cemetery/sc.html   (221 words)

  
 Welcome to the Graceland/Fairlawn Website
This has been our goal since the inception of our cemetery in 1913, and is the reason we are visited by thousands each year.
Visitors include not only relatives and friends who seek out the graves of their loved ones, but many others who come to see the flowers, trees, and unusual attractions in much the same way as they would visit a park.
Meandering drives are laid out in such manner as to make each section of the cemetery readily accessible and to display to best advantage the statuary, hedges, and other park-like features.
www.gracelandfairlawn.com   (309 words)

  
 DoctorBeef.com - Graceland Cemetery, Chicago
Graceland Cemetery, 4001 North Clark Street, Chicago, IL I've passed by Graceland so many times, and once, on a very hot, humid day, after visiting Wunder's just across the street, stepped a few feet into the cemetery.
After searching Chicago's Rosehill Cemetery for two markers and not finding them, I realized they were in Graceland.
I will be returning periodically to this cemetery, with film for my 35 mm as well as my digital.
www.doctorbeef.com /cemgrace.htm   (421 words)

  
 rachelleb.com: Comment on Tour of Graceland Cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
I was at a cemetery in NJ on Halloween - laying my old sweet aunt to rest.
I agree with Tien - the death dude is creepy.
Yes Susan B Anthony's gravesite is to be found there, also the famous abolitionist Frederick Douglas plus many other folks of local (to Rochester) and/or lesser fame as the nice tour guides will inform.
www.rachelleb.com /mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=2061   (209 words)

  
 Inside Publications - Graceland cemetery development deal buried; INSIDE Newspaper Serving Chicago's North Side ...
Concerns over the future of the section of Graceland Cemetery known as "Jewish Graceland" seem to have been put to rest for the time being.
The issue arose in the mid 1990s when the northern portion of the cemetery known as "Jewish Graceland," was sold to a corporation allegedly controlled by R. Alexander Partin and Gregory Donatelli.
Hansen was able to stop the issuance of a permit for a rerun of the event and police are now patrolling the land during the Halloween weekend in order to prevent desecration of the graves.
www.insideonline.com /site/epage/5640_162.htm   (590 words)

  
 Webster City, Iowa - People. Partnership. Progress.
It is the desire of the City of Webster City to make Graceland Cemetery a quiet, beautiful place where a sense of repose will be obtained by dignified landscape effects on a well-maintained lawn.
All efforts will be made to maintain the general beauty and harmony of the Cemetery.
You can also contact the Graceland Cemetery office during regular business hours at 515-832-9125.
www.webstercity.com /parks/cemetary.asp   (136 words)

  
 Pictorial Chicago - Graceland
According to experienced Graceland tour guide Al Walavich, no cemetery or census records exist for a person named Inez Clarke, and the Clarkes only had 2 daughters, neither of whom was named Inez.
Getty Tomb, Gate DetailDetail of Louis Henri Sullivan's elegant gate on the entrance of the Getty Tomb in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago.
Getty Tomb, Graceland CemeteryDesignated a Chicago landmark on March 10, 1971, the 1890 tomb for lumber magnate Henry Harrison Getty (1838-1920) was designed by the architects Adler and Sullivan, and shows the maturity of Sullivan's ornamental style.
www.brainsnack.net /cpg/thumbnails.php?album=4   (529 words)

  
 rachelleb.com: Tour of Graceland Cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Graceland is the final resting place of many of the city's most famous names - John Kinzie, George Pullman, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and Marshall Field, to name a few.
This is William Kimball, the piano maker's, gravesite and is one of the biggest monuments at Graceland.
Other famous notables at Graceland: Kinzie, Jenning, Jack Johnson, John Root, Pullman, Goodman, the Honores, Wacker, Armour, the Marshall Fields family, the McCormick family, Richard Nickel, and the Pinkertons and their detective agency.
www.rachelleb.com /002061.html   (752 words)

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