{"nrhp_refnum":"08000095","name":"St. Agnes Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"48 Cemetery Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Menands","county":"Albany County","state":"NY","lat":42.70271326900004,"lon":-73.7264148574238,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2008-02-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Landscape Architecture","Art","Architecture","Black","Ethnic Heritage-Black"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"St. Agnes Cemetery is a 114-acre Catholic cemetery at 48 Cemetery Avenue in Menands, just north of Albany, New York, adjacent to Albany Rural Cemetery. It was established in 1867 and expanded in 1900, 1938 and 1952.","why_significant":"The cemetery is described as illustrating Catholic funerary art and the growth of the Albany Catholic community, particularly its Irish immigrant population. It holds more than 50,000 burials, including prominent political, business, military and religious figures, as well as burials moved from the old St. Mary's Cemetery. Its landscape also reflects changing cemetery design across four development areas.","narrative":"St. Agnes Cemetery is a 114-acre Catholic burial ground in Menands, north of Albany, beside Albany Rural Cemetery. It began in 1867 with 50 acres and grew through purchases in 1900 and 1938, then lost a little land to a state highway in 1952. The early section, laid out by engineers William H. Grant and Donald G. Mitchell, has winding roads and irregular lots on rolling hills, while later areas are more symmetrical. More than 50,000 burials are marked by mausoleums, monuments, Celtic crosses, shrines and simple flush stones in granite, marble, bronze and zinc. Interments include Albany political figures, a New York governor, Medal of Honor recipients, religious orders and remains moved from the old St. Mary's burial ground in Albany. The cemetery is significant as a record of Albany's Catholic and largely Irish immigrant community and of Catholic funerary art and cemetery design. It remains an active cemetery.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"William H. Grant and Donald G. Mitchell (early landscape engineers)","architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a cemetery, with areas reserved for new burials; some historic features such as the Receiving Vault and the clergy lot marble have deteriorated.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:53.290036-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/08000095.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000095/4222cfb995-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/08000095/4222cfb995-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 3.0","author":"ronmcc","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fall_leaves_in_St._Agnes_cemetery_(Menands,_NY)_-_panoramio.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">ronmcc</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fall_leaves_in_St._Agnes_cemetery_(Menands,_NY)_-_panoramio.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316340","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Agnes_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7586711"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/albany-county/st-agnes-cemetery-08000095/"}