{"nrhp_refnum":"80002703","name":"New York City Marble Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"52-74 E. 2nd St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"New York","county":"Manhattan","state":"NY","lat":40.72465581500006,"lon":-73.98932457299998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-09-17","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Exploration/Settlement"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A small non-sectarian burial ground at 52-74 East 2nd Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side, begun in 1831 with 254 underground Tuckahoe marble vaults, enclosed by a brick wall and an 1832 iron fence with a Greek Revival gate.","why_significant":"It was the second non-sectarian burial ground in New York City open to the public. Its vaults hold many distinguished New York and national families and figures, including ex-President James Monroe (until 1858), Stephen Allen, James Lenox, Moses Taylor and John Lloyd Stephens. The form notes the original fence and burial vaults remain.","narrative":"On East 2nd Street between First and Second Avenues, a walled burial ground sits among Lower East Side tenements. Begun in 1831, it was the second non-sectarian cemetery in New York City open to the public, laid out after an 1830 ordinance banned burials below Canal Street. Four gravel walks and a crosswalk run between strips of sod marked by flat marble slabs that cover 254 underground vaults built of Tuckahoe marble, which gave the cemetery its name. An arrow-pattern iron fence from 1832 and a Greek Revival gate face the street, and a stone dead-house stands at the rear. Families were allowed to erect monuments, many in classical forms such as urns, columns and obelisks. Those interred include Stephen Allen, James Lenox, Isaac Varian, Preserved Fish, Marinus Willett, Moses Taylor and John Lloyd Stephens. President James Monroe was buried here in 1831 until his remains were moved to Virginia in 1858. Endowments now support the grounds.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Greek Revival entrance gate and iron fence; monuments in classical forms (urns, columns, obelisks)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Listed as occupied, in fair condition, on its original site; supported by endowments administered by boards of trustees.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:43.471759-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/80002703.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002703/b31a61bca2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80002703/b31a61bca2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Beyond My Ken","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYC_Marble_Cemetery_entrance.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Beyond My Ken</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NYC_Marble_Cemetery_entrance.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319762","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_Marble_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7013238"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/manhattan/new-york-city-marble-cemetery-80002703/"}