{"nrhp_refnum":"03000664","name":"Del Rio Cemeteries Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by W 2nd St., Johnson Blvd., and St. Peter's St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Del Rio","county":"Val Verde County","state":"TX","lat":29.361957386500052,"lon":-100.91705431882066,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2003-07-11","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A district of four contiguous cemeteries covering about 36 acres on the west side of Del Rio, Val Verde County, Texas: Masonic, Westlawn, Sacred Heart Catholic and St. Joseph's. They were established in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.","why_significant":"The district combines public, religious and fraternal burial grounds that reflect how Del Rio society developed from the late nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century. Its distinctive landscaping of rows of Italian and Arizona cypress, its grouped entrance gates and its varied monuments mark it as a notable cemetery landscape. The form also treats the cemeteries as the resting places of people who shaped the town's development, and as records of its ethnic and social divisions.","narrative":"Four adjoining cemeteries on the west side of Del Rio, Texas, make up this district of roughly 36 acres: Masonic, Westlawn, Sacred Heart Catholic and St. Joseph's. Three side-by-side gates at the end of the old Cemetery Road, now West Second Street, lead into them. Rows of Italian and Arizona cypress, neither native to the region, are the most distinctive feature. Most markers are simple granite, marble or limestone, though the grounds also hold a limestone crypt, a black-and-white granite crypt resembling a small house, Woodmen of the World markers and ceramic-tile gravestones, many showing the Virgin of Guadalupe. The cemeteries record the town's history. Westlawn grew from land John Perry deeded in 1889 and 1899 and includes older burials moved from downtown sites, as well as areas once segregated by race. Sacred Heart reflects the Catholic, Italian and Mexican communities. The district is listed for the way it shows Del Rio's social development, and all four cemeteries remain in use today.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"No style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"All four cemeteries are active and well-maintained; at least a third of burials in each pre-date 1953.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:54:24.127908-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/79/9738/40973879/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_TX/03000664.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/40973879","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110000245"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/texas/val-verde-county/del-rio-cemeteries-historic-district-03000664/"}