{"nrhp_refnum":"76001440","name":"Spring Grove Cemetery","other_names":["See Also: Sammuel Hannaford and Sons TR in Hamilton County"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"4521 Spring Grove Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cincinnati","county":"Hamilton County","state":"OH","lat":40.97172818700005,"lon":-84.46003594116473,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1976-05-13","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"2007-03-29","areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Spring Grove Cemetery is a 166-acre historic cemetery district at 4521 Spring Grove Avenue in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio. It was chartered in 1845 and reworked from 1855 under landscape gardener Adolph Strauch.","why_significant":"The nomination holds that the \"lawn plan\" for cemetery design was created here under Adolph Strauch, a concept first seen as radical and later accepted almost universally. It also notes that the private mausoleums are refined examples of distinct nineteenth-century styles. Spring Grove was the fourth rural cemetery in the United States.","narrative":"Spring Grove Cemetery covers 166 acres in Cincinnati and is known for introducing the lawn plan of cemetery design. Chartered in 1845 after cholera epidemics strained burial facilities, it first followed a traditional layout of many roads, fenced family plots and multiple markers. In 1855 Adolph Strauch became superintendent and reshaped it. He removed hedges and fences, limited each lot to one monument, laid out roads following the contours of the land, widened the main entrance road to 120 feet and turned spring-fed swamps into five acres of ornamental lakes. His methods were later adopted internationally. The grounds hold notable architecture, including the Norman Gothic main gates by James Keys Wilson, a Romanesque Revival chapel by Samuel Hannaford, the 1859 Public Vault by Alfred Mullet, and private mausoleums in Gothic, Greek Doric and Baroque-influenced styles such as the Fleischmann and Burnet monuments. These structures are placed among smaller monuments to achieve the pictorial harmony Strauch sought.","period_of_significance":"1855-1883","architect_builder":"Adolph Strauch","architectural_style":"Norman Gothic (main gates); Romanesque Revival (chapel, public vault); Gothic, Greek Doric and Baroque-flavored mausoleums","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, privately owned, in excellent condition and unaltered; the main gate building interior has been altered to create office space.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.229557-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/76001440.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001440/c7b4e83bd8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/76001440/c7b4e83bd8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"Original uploader was Mind meal at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dexter_Memorial.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Original uploader was Mind meal at en.wikipedia</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dexter_Memorial.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989113","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spring_Grove_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2313810"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/hamilton-county/spring-grove-cemetery-76001440/"}