{"nrhp_refnum":"02001320","name":"Sharp Burial Ground","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Albany Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Kingston","county":"Ulster County","state":"NY","lat":41.93845690200004,"lon":-74.00272213599999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2002-11-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A roughly two-acre (nominated as 1.6 acres) cemetery on the east side of Albany Avenue in Kingston, Ulster County, New York, laid out in 1832 with 210 burial plots, though some burials date to 1810.","why_significant":"It is a surviving second-generation burial ground in Kingston, planned on a surveyed grid as villages outgrew churchyards and family burial sites. It also holds a collection of early to mid-nineteenth century funerary art, including willow-and-urn motifs and the monuments of Edward O'Neil and Abraham Hasbrouck.","narrative":"Sharp Burial Ground is a cemetery of about two acres on the east side of Albany Avenue in Kingston, New York. Surveyor Edward O'Neil mapped it on July 20, 1832, as a grid of 210 plots, with smaller lots on the south side and larger ones across the northern two-thirds. Lots along Albany Avenue were reserved for Baptist, Episcopal, Dutch and Methodist parsonages. Records show burials began as early as 1810, and the last recorded burials took place in the 1870s. Cemetery records list 186 burials. Such surveyed grid cemeteries replaced crowded churchyards and rural family plots as villages grew. Only a few dozen markers survive today. They include O'Neil's own marble monument, with a carved wreath, and Abraham Hasbrouck's tall marble obelisk. Willow and urn designs are common, including one on a child's marker. Many remains were probably moved when larger cemeteries opened in Kingston. The Friends of Historic Kingston restored the site in 1995 and added an iron fence and gate.","period_of_significance":"c.1832-c.1920","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Restored in 1995 by the Friends of Historic Kingston, which cleaned the grounds and added an iron fence and gate along Albany Avenue. The burial ground is no longer used for burials and is cared for by the city.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.700738-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/02001320.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001320/15320660ab-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/02001320/15320660ab-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sharp%27s_Burial_Ground,_Kingston,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Sharp%27s_Burial_Ground,_Kingston,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315286","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp_Burial_Ground","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1417213"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/ulster-county/sharp-burial-ground-02001320/"}