{"nrhp_refnum":"09000163","name":"Mount Hebron Cemetery and Gatehouse","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"305 E. Boscawen St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Winchester","county":"Winchester","state":"VA","lat":39.18627888100008,"lon":-78.16030854299999,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-03-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Landscape Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A fifty-six-acre private cemetery with a Chateauesque limestone gatehouse at 305 East Boscawen Street in Winchester, Virginia. The cemetery was chartered in 1844 and the gatehouse was dedicated in 1903.","why_significant":"The nomination presents the cemetery as the earliest interpretation of the Rural Cemetery Movement in Virginia. It holds the Stonewall Confederate Memorial Cemetery, believed to be the first memorial Confederate cemetery in the South, and the graves of early Winchester residents and benefactors. The gatehouse, designed by Barney and Chapman of New York, is described as their first gatehouse and a good example of Chateauesque design.","narrative":"Mount Hebron Cemetery covers fifty-six acres in the oldest part of Winchester, Virginia, and holds more than thirty thousand burials. Chartered in 1844, it is believed to be Virginia's earliest example of the Rural Cemetery Movement, and it now incorporates older church burial grounds dating to 1741 and 1753, along with the ruins of the Old Lutheran Church. Its Stonewall Confederate Memorial Cemetery, created in 1866, is believed to be the first memorial Confederate cemetery in the South. Near the west entrance stands a limestone gatehouse in the Chateauesque style, designed by New York architects James Stewart Barney and Henry Otis Chapman and dedicated in 1903. Philanthropist Charles B. Rouss helped fund it. It contains offices, a chapel and an apartment, and the chapel was restored in 2001. The grounds also hold the Parthenon-style Rouss Mausoleum, Judge John Handley's Gothic Revival monument, and a Gothic Revival cast-iron fence and gate.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Architects James Stewart Barney and Henry Otis Chapman of New York; builder Henry Deahl","architectural_style":"Chateauesque","criteria":[],"status_note":"Grounds and gatehouse are well maintained and in excellent condition; still in use as a cemetery, with offices, a restored chapel and an apartment in the gatehouse.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.423065-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/68/6841/41684168/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/09000163.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000163/254037e057-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000163/254037e057-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Karen Nutini","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mount_Hebron_Cemetery.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Karen Nutini</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:Mount_Hebron_Cemetery.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41684168","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Hebron_Cemetery_and_Gatehouse","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16895462"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/winchester/mount-hebron-cemetery-and-gatehouse-09000163/"}