{"nrhp_refnum":"11000403","name":"Wildwood Cemetery and Mary Lyon Fisher Memorial Chapel","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"River Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Lyons Falls","county":"Lewis County","state":"NY","lat":43.60767100150005,"lon":-75.34496805771113,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2011-06-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Social History","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 37-acre lawn park cemetery with a stone Gothic Revival memorial chapel and a memorial boulder plaque on River Road, just south of Lyons Falls in the Town of Lyonsdale, Lewis County, New York. The cemetery was incorporated in 1906 and the chapel was built in 1921.","why_significant":"The chapel is a late Gothic Revival work with Arts and Crafts touches, designed by the Utica firm Gouge & Ames. It is also tied to the philanthropy of the Lyon family, the region's leading landholders and mill owners. The cemetery is an early twentieth century example of the lawn park type and was a village-wide effort to create a formal burial ground for Lyons Falls.","narrative":"Wildwood Cemetery and the Mary Lyon Fisher Memorial Chapel occupy 37 acres along River Road south of Lyons Falls, New York. The cemetery was incorporated in 1906 on land donated by the heirs of Lyman R. Lyon, and it holds 736 burials laid out in regular rows on open lawns. It follows the early twentieth century lawn park model, with uniform monuments, formal roads and a limestone entrance wall with iron gates. The Lyon family plot sits on the highest ground, marked by a white marble obelisk. The chapel was built in 1921 by Mary Lyon Fisher's children in her memory. Designed by the Utica firm Gouge & Ames, it is a small limestone building with buttresses, pointed windows with amber glass, and a vaulted interior ceiling, along with Arts and Crafts details. Its basement crypt still serves for winter storage of remains. A boulder plaque from 1951 marks where Caleb Lyon died in 1835. Together the resources reflect the Lyon family's influence on the region.","period_of_significance":"1906-1961","architect_builder":"Gouge & Ames (architect); W.H. Rich & Sons (builder): Chapel; Cemetery: Unknown","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Late Gothic Revival","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The cemetery remains in use. The chapel basement is still used as a crypt for winter storage of remains, and the original 1921 folding chairs are kept there.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.329748-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/11000403.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318604","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildwood_Cemetery_and_Mary_Lyon_Fisher_Memorial_Chapel","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22919978"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/lewis-county/wildwood-cemetery-and-mary-lyon-fisher-memorial-chapel-11000403/"}