{"nrhp_refnum":"76001261","name":"Mt. Albion Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"NY 31","address_restricted":false,"city":"Albion","county":"Orleans County","state":"NY","lat":43.240273923000046,"lon":-78.15453806066868,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-09-27","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Mt. Albion Cemetery is a rural cemetery district of about 70 acres on a drumlin at the eastern edge of the village of Albion, Orleans County, New York. Its oldest section dates from 1842 and it expanded westward through the later nineteenth century.","why_significant":"The nomination calls it one of the finest small, intact rural cemeteries in New York State and a good example of the mid-nineteenth century picturesque movement in American landscape architecture. It served as a park and botanical garden as well as a burying ground. Its buildings and monuments, built of local Medina sandstone, reflect the prosperity of the Albion quarries and give it a regional character.","narrative":"Mt. Albion Cemetery occupies a small drumlin rising from flat farmland on the eastern edge of Albion, New York, linked to the village by a mile-and-a-half sidewalk of slate and Medina sandstone. The oldest section dates from 1842, and the grounds grew westward through the later nineteenth century. Narrow, winding roads climb terraced slopes under mature trees, while open grassy dells served as park and botanical garden, with flowering shrubs, rare yuccas and a notable butternut tree. Local Medina sandstone unifies the structures: a Gothic chapel of 1875, an entrance arch of 1881, cemetery offices and barn of 1889, a 58-foot Soldiers and Sailors Monument of 1874, and a domed spring house of 1908. Marvin Porter, a former Erie Canal engineer, is credited with the original layout. The cemetery was listed as an intact example of the American rural cemetery and of picturesque landscape design, with its sandstone architecture reflecting the local quarrying boom.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Marvin Porter (1842, original layout); Warner and Brockert of Rochester (cemetery offices and barn); Field and Diem (Civil War monument); W.E. Karns (Ingersoll Memorial Fountain)","architectural_style":"Gothic Revival, Richardsonian Romanesque","criteria":[],"status_note":"Occupied and in use as a cemetery, owned by the Village of Albion; condition marked good and unaltered. The Soldiers and Sailors Monument was restored in 1975.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:40.006204-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/76001261.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001261/d757b4d5eb-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001261/d757b4d5eb-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Daniel Case","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mt_Albion_Cemetery,_Albion,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Case</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:Mt_Albion_Cemetery,_Albion,_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320809","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Albion_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8509826"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/orleans-county/mt-albion-cemetery-76001261/"}