{"nrhp_refnum":"86001253","name":"Woodland Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"6901 Woodland Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Cleveland","county":"Cuyahoga County","state":"OH","lat":41.48163721650005,"lon":-81.64159428636768,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1986-06-04","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Landscape Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Woodland Cemetery is a 60-acre public rural-style cemetery at 6901 Woodland Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, laid out in 1852-1853 and owned by the City of Cleveland. It includes a Gothic style stone gateway of 1870 with an 1875 addition.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the cemetery is significant for its original \"rural cemetery\" design by landscape gardener Howard Daniels, much of which survives because the grounds were never wholesale redesigned. As Cleveland's main public cemetery for over fifty years, it also holds funerary monuments that document the city's varied ethnic groups and cultural periods.","narrative":"Woodland Cemetery is a 60-acre burial ground on Cleveland's east side, laid out in 1852-1853 by landscape gardener Howard Daniels in the curving \"rural cemetery\" manner. Its oldest twenty acres keep much of the original circular roads and pathways, and later northern sections extended the pattern less formally before giving way to straight rows. Unlike many cemeteries of its era, it was never extensively redesigned. A Gothic stone gateway on Woodland Avenue, begun in 1870 and credited to architect Joseph Ireland, is now badly deteriorated. As the city's main public cemetery through the Civil War years and after, it holds the graves of Governor John Brough, Civil War veterans, and a memorial to the 7th Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Mausoleums in Egyptian, Gothic Revival and Greek Revival styles sit alongside smaller markers inscribed in Czech and German, recording the English-speaking, Central European and Eastern European communities that shaped Cleveland. It was also used informally as park space by its neighbors.","period_of_significance":"1800-1899","architect_builder":"Howard Daniels, landscape gardener","architectural_style":"Rural cemetery style (curvilinear landscape design); Gothic style entrance gateway","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Condition is fair. The main gateway is deteriorating, with a collapsed west wall facing and unrepaired fire damage, and the city was reportedly considering demolishing it. The grounds remain in use and are mowed regularly, though maintenance is limited.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:53:14.489688-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/86001253.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001253/0709c60f43-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86001253/0709c60f43-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 2.0","author":"Tim Evanson","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodland_Cemetery_sign.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Evanson</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodland_Cemetery_sign.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71987927","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodland_Cemetery_(Cleveland)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30603604"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/cuyahoga-county/woodland-cemetery-86001253/"}