{"nrhp_refnum":"04000756","name":"Glens Falls Cemetery","other_names":["Bay Street Cemetery"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"38 Ogden St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Glens Falls","county":"Warren County","state":"NY","lat":43.32258984450007,"lon":-73.6524275228819,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-07-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Landscape Architecture","Community Planning and Development","Art"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 38-acre rural-style cemetery at 38 Ogden Street in Glens Falls, Warren County, New York, established in 1853 and also known as Bay Street Cemetery. It began as a 13-acre parcel and was expanded several times through 1973.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the cemetery is a well-preserved example of a Victorian-period cemetery influenced by the Rural Cemetery Movement. Its curved roads, rounded lots and sunken pathways illustrate Victorian ideals of landscape design. Its ornate monuments and mausoleums reflect the wealth of Glens Falls in the late 1800s and early 1900s.","narrative":"Glens Falls Cemetery, also called Bay Street Cemetery, covers about 38 acres near the north end of the city. Village trustees bought the first 13 acres in 1853, and George Ferguson drew the plots and roads, working around Halfway Brook and a northern hill. Expansions in 1871, 1888 and the twentieth century, the last in 1973, brought it to its present size. The older sections have raised lots, sunken pathways, curving roads and rounded plots that follow Victorian ideas of landscape beauty and the Rural Cemetery Movement. Monuments range from carved tree trunks and draped urns to a granite temple-like family monument, a life-size statue of a woman, and mausoleums such as the Bemis and Pruyn vaults. Contributing features include an ornamental iron fence, a 1946 stone memorial chapel designed by Milton Lee Crandell, and a 1950 office. The cemetery reflects the wealth of Glens Falls in the late nineteenth century and the funerary art that wealth commissioned.","period_of_significance":"1853 - 1953","architect_builder":"George Ferguson (landscape architect for original 13 acres); Milton Lee Crandell (architect of 1946 Chapel)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a cemetery; further expansion is considered unlikely because no vacant land surrounds it.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.896248-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/04000756.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000756/9c1dad3bdd-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000756/9c1dad3bdd-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Kenneth C. Zirkel","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glens_Falls_Cemetery_Chapel.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenneth C. Zirkel</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glens_Falls_Cemetery_Chapel.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315415","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glens_Falls_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5569307"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/warren-county/glens-falls-cemetery-04000756/"}