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Built in 1899, the Horatio N. May Chapel was designed by architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee.It is designed in a blend of Gothic and Romanesque styles, with an exterior of granite and an interior appointed with mosaic floors and a graceful oak roof with "hammer-beam trusses and curved brackets."
Oak Woods Cemetery. Find a Grave. Oak Woods Cemetery. Oak Woods Cemetery is a large lawn cemetery in Chicago, Illinois. Located at 1035 E. 67th Street, in the Greater Grand Crossing area of Chicago's South Side. Established 171 years ago on February 12, 1853, it covers 183 acres (74 ha). [1]
All Souls Cemetery (Long Beach, California) [9] Angeles Abbey Memorial Park, Compton. Angelus-Rosedale Cemetery, Los Angeles. Artesia Cemetery, Cerritos. Calvary Cemetery, East Los Angeles. Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Mausoleum, Downtown Los Angeles. Chapel of the Pines Crematory, Los Angeles.
Graceland Cemetery. Graceland Cemetery is a large historic garden cemetery located in the north side community area of Uptown, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Established in 1860, its main entrance is at the intersection of Clark Street and Irving Park Road. Among the cemetery's 121 acres (49 ha) are the burial sites of several well-known ...
For the 1986 TV series, see Resting Place. For the 1951 film, see No Resting Place. Not to be confused with Rest area. A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite, graveyard, or a green space called a memorial park, is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred.
Bachelor's Grove Cemetery, Chicago. Burr Oak Cemetery, Alsip. Chippiannock Cemetery, Rock Island (listed on the cemetery National Registry in 1994) Evergreen Cemetery, Bloomington. German Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois. Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. Holy Sepulchre Cemetery, Worth.
Tomb of Anton Cermak in Section 21. The cemetery was established by members of Chicago's Czech community in 1877. [3] The community had been outraged when a Czech Catholic woman named Marie Silhanek was denied burial at several Catholic cemeteries in Chicago because she supposedly never made her Easter Duty (going to confession and Holy Communion at least once during the Easter season), which ...
The United States National Cemetery System is a system of 164 cemeteries in the United States and its territories. The authority to create military burial places came during the American Civil War, in an act passed by the U.S. Congress on July 17, 1862. [1] By the end of 1862, 12 national cemeteries had been established. [2]