{"nrhp_refnum":"01001063","name":"Glendale Cemetery","other_names":["Akron Rural Cemetery"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"150 Glendale Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Akron","county":"Summit County","state":"OH","lat":41.08431121250007,"lon":-81.52881963187563,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2001-09-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Health/Medicine","Entertainment/Recreation","Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"An 88-acre rural cemetery at 150 Glendale Avenue in Akron, Summit County, Ohio, laid out in the picturesque style of the nineteenth-century Rural Cemetery Movement. It began as the Akron Rural Cemetery and absorbed the eight-acre Oak Openings cemetery in 1850.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the cemetery is significant under Criteria A and C for its role in social history, health and medicine, recreation, landscape architecture and architecture. Its hilly, curving landscape and its many mausoleums in Classical, Egyptian, Gothic, Romanesque, Arts and Crafts and Moderne styles illustrate rural cemetery design and Akron's affluent society. Its period of significance runs from 1839 to 1929.","narrative":"Glendale Cemetery is an 88-acre burial ground in Akron, Ohio, designed in the picturesque manner of the nineteenth-century Rural Cemetery Movement. It started as the Akron Rural Cemetery, took in the eight-acre Oak Openings cemetery in 1850, and gained a western section shortly before 1891. Hills and plateaus flank a central valley that opens into a broad meadow, and Cypress Avenue winds through as the main spine. Along it stand mausoleums in Classical, Egyptian, Gothic, Romanesque, Arts and Crafts and Moderne styles, many with bronze doors, marble interiors and stained glass. The oldest, the Commins vault of 1860, shows Egyptian Revival influence. Four earlier-listed structures stand near the entrance: an office building, a caretaker's residence, a memorial chapel and a bell tower. The cemetery was recognized for its landscape design, its architecture, and its connection to Akron's social history, with a significance period of 1839 to 1929.","period_of_significance":"1839 - 1929","architect_builder":"Albert Sargent, Thomas Mills","architectural_style":"Other: Rural Cemetery","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a cemetery; a garage maintenance building is noted as non-contributing, and the Willow Brook stream and its two lakes no longer exist.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:06.875009-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/01001063.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001063/2d22ba0863-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/01001063/2d22ba0863-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robinson_family_mausoleum_at_Glendale_Cemetery.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Robinson_family_mausoleum_at_Glendale_Cemetery.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71991651","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glendale_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5568348"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/summit-county/glendale-cemetery-01001063/"}