{"nrhp_refnum":"02000305","name":"Evergreen Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"East Ave., bet. Erie St. and Prospect St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Owego","county":"Tioga County","state":"NY","lat":42.104905109500066,"lon":-76.26535731478938,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-04-01","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Art"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Evergreen Cemetery is a public rural cemetery on a hillside along East Avenue in Owego, Tioga County, New York, established by the village in 1851 and now covering 51.2 acres.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an outstanding example of a mid-nineteenth-century rural cemetery in landscape architecture, with picturesque terraced grounds and views over the Susquehanna valley. It also shows changing funerary design across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and holds the burial record of many Owego residents and prominent citizens.","narrative":"Evergreen Cemetery occupies a south-facing hillside above the village of Owego, about a mile from the center. Established by village trustees in March 1851 as a non-denominational burial ground, it grew from 11.2 acres to 51.2. Local civil engineer Stephen Dexter surveyed and platted it in 1852. Its terraces, curving roads, ravines with stone-lined brooks and carefully placed plantings follow the picturesque tradition of the rural cemetery movement. Features include an iron entrance gate, a small Gothic chapel with receiving vault built in 1920, six mausolea, Egyptian Revival obelisks, iron hitching posts shaped like saplings, and a Civil War section marked by cannons. Notable burials include SaSaNa Loft, a Mohawk woman killed in a railroad accident in 1852, and politician Thomas C. Platt, whose monument was designed by Ernest Flagg. The cemetery was listed for its landscape design and its record of Owego's residents.","period_of_significance":"1851-1951","architect_builder":"Dexter, Stephen","architectural_style":"Rural cemetery movement (picturesque/Romantic landscape design); Gothic style chapel","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a cemetery and open to the public; the chapel now serves as a receiving vault. Weathering, erosion, silted ditches and blocked culverts are noted as threats.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.789391-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/02000305.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000305/ce94c10548-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02000305/ce94c10548-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Tkeator","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evergreen_Cemetery_Owego.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tkeator</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evergreen_Cemetery_Owego.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322433","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evergreen_Cemetery_(Owego,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5417187"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/tioga-county/evergreen-cemetery-02000305/"}