{"nrhp_refnum":"88000918","name":"St. Mark's Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"E. Main St., corner of St. Mark's Pl.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Mount Kisco","county":"Westchester County","state":"NY","lat":41.194609623000076,"lon":-73.72597920699997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-06-23","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-third-acre cemetery at East Main Street and St. Mark's Place in Mount Kisco, Westchester County, New York, begun in 1761 beside an Episcopal church and later expanded for Methodists. It is owned by the Village/Town of Mount Kisco.","why_significant":"The cemetery reflects the development of the rural hamlet of North Castle/New Castle Corners through three stages of burial between 1761 and about 1911. It is tied to the American Revolution, when the church served as a temporary hospital after the Battle of White Plains. It also holds an unusually large and high-quality collection of carved grave markers by regional master carvers.","narrative":"St. Mark's Cemetery is a small rural burial ground in Mount Kisco, New York, beginning in 1761 when half an acre was donated for an Episcopal mission church. The first recorded burial, in 1773, was that of Isaac Lounsbury. Land was added in 1851 and 1854, the latter for Methodists, and a row of spruce trees still divides the two sections. The last burial occurred in 1940. During the Revolutionary War, the church on the site served as a temporary hospital after the Battle of White Plains, and graves of unknown soldiers lie in the southeast corner. The cemetery is also valued for its funerary art, including red sandstone cherub markers by carvers such as Thomas Brown and John Zuricher, Neoclassical urn and willow stones, and Gothic and Victorian markers. The inscriptions also record local genealogy, population change and infant mortality over the nineteenth century.","period_of_significance":"1773-1911","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition listed as good, unaltered and on its original site; the last burial took place in 1940. Walls have been rebuilt in places and the south wall has fallen in places.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.809248-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88000918.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000918/8b8409c3a9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000918/8b8409c3a9-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Virtus sola nobilitas","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_Mark%27s_Cemetery_in_December_Snow.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Virtus sola nobilitas</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:Saint_Mark%27s_Cemetery_in_December_Snow.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75323235","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Mark%27s_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7589903"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/westchester-county/st-marks-cemetery-88000918/"}