{"nrhp_refnum":"77001071","name":"Cedar Hill Cemetery Buildings","other_names":["Superintendent's Residence, Chapel, and Office, Chapel Hill"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Cedar St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newark","county":"Licking County","state":"OH","lat":40.06793178200007,"lon":-82.38591653999998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1977-04-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A group of cemetery service buildings on North Cedar Street in Newark, Licking County, Ohio, owned by the City of Newark: a superintendent's residence (1879), a stone Gothic chapel (1881), a brick and glazed-tile office (1889), and the original entrance gate and fence (1889).","why_significant":"The buildings are well preserved on their original sites, keep their original spatial relationships, and still serve their original functions. They are cited as evidence of early cemetery planning. The chapel is called the best architecturally and an excellent example of Gothic revival, and the office is notable for locally manufactured decorative glazed tiles.","narrative":"Cedar Hill Cemetery in Newark, Ohio, retains a group of service buildings built between 1879 and 1889. The earliest is the superintendent's residence, a two-story L-shaped frame house with a tower, completed in 1879 and covered in permastone in 1946. The stone mortuary chapel followed in 1881, a small Gothic structure of rock-faced sandstone with lancet windows, stained glass, buttresses and a Celtic cross at the gable peak. In 1889 the brick and glazed-tile office was finished beside a pond, with a half-round porch, a bell tower and an open entrance used by people waiting for the trolley. An iron and stone entrance gate and fence date from the same year. The group is valued because the buildings remain on their original sites and still serve their original functions. The chapel is considered the finest example of Gothic revival, though its roof has deteriorated and a local historical society has been raising money to restore it as a veterans' memorial.","period_of_significance":"1879-1889","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Gothic","criteria":[],"status_note":"Residence and office are still in use for their original purposes; the chapel's roof is deteriorated and covered with a tarpaulin, with fundraising under way to restore it.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:09.759317-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/77001071.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001071/5c68500661-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/77001071/5c68500661-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Wdzinc","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cedar_Hill_Cemetery_Buildings.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Wdzinc</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:Cedar_Hill_Cemetery_Buildings.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71989680","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q138460558"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/licking-county/cedar-hill-cemetery-buildings-77001071/"}