{"nrhp_refnum":"80003405","name":"Allegheny Cemetery","other_names":["See Also:Butler Street Gatehouse"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Roughly bounded by N. Mathilda and Butler Sts., and Penn, Stanton, and Mossfield Aves.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Pittsburgh","county":"Allegheny County","state":"PA","lat":40.472188644000056,"lon":-79.94711160495945,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-12-10","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A rural-style cemetery of over 300 acres in the Lawrenceville section of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, containing roughly 108,000 interments along with gatehouses, maintenance buildings, a receiving vault, a conservatory complex and a Temple of Memories.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the cemetery is significant as a major example of mid-19th century landscape architecture and the romantic park-like cemetery movement. It was the first park-like cemetery in Pittsburgh and the oldest suburban cemetery west of the Allegheny Mountains. It is also described as a museum of sculpture and stained glass, with monuments and private mausoleums spanning many architectural and artistic styles.","narrative":"Allegheny Cemetery occupies more than 300 acres of rolling hillsides in Pittsburgh's Lawrenceville section, overlooking the Allegheny River. Founded after a crisis in downtown burial space and incorporated on April 24, 1844, it was laid out with winding roads and small lakes in the romantic park style of the mid-19th century. John Chislett, its first superintendent, designed the English Gothic sandstone gatehouse of 1848 on Butler Street. Later buildings include a Richardson Romanesque chapel and tower by Macomb and Dull, a group of Italianate maintenance buildings, and a Gothic receiving vault of 1900-1904. The cemetery is regarded as a museum of monument design, with many mausoleums containing Tiffany stained glass. It also holds the only U.S. Government burial plot in Western Pennsylvania, donated in 1862 for soldiers, and is recognised for its early community service.","period_of_significance":"1844-1899","architect_builder":"John Chislett (superintendent and engineer; designed the Butler Street gatehouse and lodge)","architectural_style":"Landscape architecture; English Gothic (gatehouse); Richardson Romanesque (Penn Avenue Gatehouse); Italianate (maintenance complex)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"The palm house is in a sorry state of disrepair, with its clerestory and cupola gone; the other conservatory greenhouses survive in part. The cemetery remains in use for burials and community services.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:32.211224-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003405.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003405/6f28f8fb6a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003405/6f28f8fb6a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Tom Murphy VII","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Allegheny_Cemetery_2008_spires.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Murphy VII</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Allegheny_Cemetery_2008_spires.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100004020","name":"Lawrenceville Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/pennsylvania/lawrenceville-historic-district-100004020/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997694","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegheny_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1271094"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/allegheny-county/allegheny-cemetery-80003405/"}