{"nrhp_refnum":"06001298","name":"Christ Church and Manlius Village Cemeteries","other_names":["Manlius Church Yard"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"East Seneca St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Manlius","county":"Onondaga County","state":"NY","lat":43.00270182600008,"lon":-75.96968700899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-01-25","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Two adjacent cemeteries, Christ Church Cemetery (about 2 acres) and Manlius Village Cemetery (about 5.5 acres), on East Seneca Street (NY Route 173) just east of the center of Manlius, Onondaga County, New York. Burials began in the first decade of the nineteenth century.","why_significant":"The cemeteries are argued to be significant under Criterion A as the burial grounds of the Town and Village of Manlius from the earliest European-American settlement, holding the graves of veterans from the Revolutionary War through World War II. They are also significant under Criterion C for their collections of funerary art and their link to rural cemetery design of the later nineteenth century.","narrative":"Christ Church Cemetery and Manlius Village Cemetery lie side by side along East Seneca Street, the former Seneca Turnpike, just east of the center of Manlius, New York. Together they cover roughly 7.5 acres, and no visual line separates them, although they have separate owners. Burials began between 1806 and 1810, and Christ Church Cemetery was formally organized in 1813 when three families deeded land to the church for a public burial ground. The Village Cemetery was reshaped by an 1872 plan with winding roads, curved burial sections and a fountain, which has since been lost. A historic stone wall runs along the western edge. Gravestones range from early arched marble and sandstone markers with carved urns to 1840s stones with weeping willows and later granite obelisks. Veterans of the Revolutionary War, War of 1812, Civil War and both World Wars are buried here, with 105 in Christ Church alone. The cemeteries record the community's settlement and its changing funerary art and landscape design.","period_of_significance":"1809-1955","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Both cemeteries are active burial grounds. The Victorian-era fountain no longer survives and some of the roads are overgrown, but many of the paths remain.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:54.134472-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/06001298.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001298/94f990f1f7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06001298/94f990f1f7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Crazyale","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Manlius_village_cemetery.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Crazyale</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:Manlius_village_cemetery.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320320","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_Church_and_Manlius_Village_Cemeteries","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5108834"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/onondaga-county/christ-church-and-manlius-village-cemeteries-06001298/"}