{"nrhp_refnum":"07001192","name":"Evergreens Cemetery","other_names":["Evergreens, The"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"1629 Bushwick Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brooklyn","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.689359467500054,"lon":-73.89812400448733,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-11-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Architecture","Landscape Architecture","Social History","Community Planning and Development"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 225-acre rural cemetery founded in 1849 on the Brooklyn-Queens border in New York, laid out in the Picturesque style on a glacial moraine, with a Norman-style chapel, summer house, receiving vault and many monuments.","why_significant":"The cemetery is argued to be significant as an outstanding nineteenth-century rural cemetery whose rolling hills, views and naturalistic plantings express Picturesque landscape design. It is also the burial place of a wide range of people from different social and ethnic groups, and holds notable funerary art and architecture. Designers linked to it include A.J. Downing, Alexander Jackson Davis, Calvert Vaux and Samuel Parsons, Jr.","narrative":"Evergreens Cemetery covers 225 acres along the Brooklyn-Queens border and has been in use since interments began in 1850, after its incorporation in 1849. Laid out over rolling glacial terrain, it follows the Picturesque rural cemetery tradition, with winding drives, mature specimen trees and views toward Manhattan, Jamaica Bay and the Atlantic. Its principal buildings include a Norman-style stone chapel designed by Alexander Jackson Davis in 1852 and later altered by Calvert Vaux, a rustic summer house from about 1880, and a rusticated stone receiving vault built in 1872. Andrew Jackson Downing is believed to have had a role in the original planning, and Samuel Parsons, Jr. and Vaux helped shape the 1880s expansion. Thousands of monuments, mausoleums and family plots illustrate changing tastes in funerary art, while the burials reflect a wide mix of social and ethnic groups, including Civil War veterans and prominent local residents. The cemetery remains active today.","period_of_significance":"1849-1952","architect_builder":"Alexander Jackson Davis (chapel, 1852); Calvert Vaux (chapel modification, 1880s); N.Y. and L.I. Stone Company (receiving vault, 1872)","architectural_style":"Picturesque Style (cemetery site); French Eclectic (chapel); Gothic Revival, Classical Revival, Exotic Revival, Beaux-Arts, Renaissance Revival monuments","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still an active cemetery; the document states that its monuments and grounds are well preserved and maintained, with few signs of vandalism.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.724406-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/07001192.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001192/ed3b12595b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07001192/ed3b12595b-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"User:Jim.henderson","credit_html":"User:Jim.henderson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Evergreen_Cemetery_ENY_Bklyn_jeh.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318379","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cemetery_of_the_Evergreens","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5058720"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/evergreens-cemetery-07001192/"}