{"nrhp_refnum":"09000559","name":"Lake View Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"NY 19","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brockport","county":"Monroe County","state":"NY","lat":43.191275105000045,"lon":-77.93868560579455,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2009-07-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 66.7-acre rural cemetery on a ridge along Lake Road (NY 19) just south of Brockport, Monroe County, New York, organized in 1891 and laid out by landscape architect W.W. Parce. It absorbed the older Beach Ridge Cemetery.","why_significant":"The cemetery is argued to be an intact and distinctive late-nineteenth-century rural cemetery, added onto an earlier linear burying ground. It has a curvilinear road system, specimen trees, a miniature lake and notable monuments, plus a Romanesque Revival chapel. It is also tied to Parce, an early professional landscape architect known for cemetery designs.","narrative":"Lake View Cemetery occupies a rolling ridge south of Brockport, New York, with views toward Lake Ontario. Organized in 1891 on a former farm beside the older Beach Ridge Cemetery, it was laid out as a park-like rural cemetery with winding drives, terraced sections, specimen trees and a small pond. Landscape architect W.W. Parce was hired in 1893 to plot and modify the grounds. Near the entrance stands a Romanesque Revival chapel, now a receiving vault, built of gray sandstone with red brick trim, a square tower and a slate roof. Monuments range from simple early nineteenth-century upright stones to obelisks, angel statuary, small mausolea and streamlined memorials of the early twentieth century. The cemetery is considered significant as an intact example of its type, with its original design essentially maintained for more than a century. The Lake View Cemetery Association was dissolved in 2002, and the Town of Sweden took ownership.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1825-ca. 1955","architect_builder":"W.W. Parce","architectural_style":"No style (Romanesque Revival chapel/receiving vault)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still a cemetery; the chapel now serves as a receiving vault, the fountain is non-functional, and ownership passed to the Town of Sweden in 2002.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.053045-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/09000559.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000559/9d4c75f42c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/09000559/9d4c75f42c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Granddilulsion","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Entrance_to_Lakeview_Cemetery.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Granddilulsion</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:Entrance_to_Lakeview_Cemetery.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318860","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_View_Cemetery_(Brockport,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6478288"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/monroe-county/lake-view-cemetery-09000559/"}