{"nrhp_refnum":"91001534","name":"Roslyn Cemetery","other_names":["See Also:Toll Gate House"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Northern Blvd. W of jct. with Glen Cove Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Roslyn","county":"Nassau County","state":"NY","lat":40.810110648000034,"lon":-73.63124437140169,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1991-10-28","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Health/Medicine","Literature","Science","Law","Social History","Performing Arts"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Roslyn Cemetery is a roughly 13-acre hilltop burial ground on Northern Boulevard (Rt. 25A) in Roslyn, Nassau County, New York. Its boundaries date to 1864 and the cemetery was established in 1860.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the cemetery is significant as the burial place of eight persons of transcendent importance, including poet and editor William Cullen Bryant, author Frances Hodgson Burnett and novelist and editor Christopher Morley. It also holds a Civil War monument, an Egyptian Revival mausoleum and many oversized family plots tied to Roslyn's history.","narrative":"Roslyn Cemetery occupies about 13 hilltop acres off Northern Boulevard in Roslyn, Long Island. Laid out in 1860 and bounded as it is today since 1864, it is divided into eight sections and holds more than 600 tombstones, including late nineteenth-century zinc monuments and many oversized family plots. Notable features include a 20-foot granite Civil War monument topped by a Union soldier, erected in 1902, and an Egyptian Revival mausoleum completed in 1918 for singer Bessie Abott and her husband. The c. 1860 East Toll Gate House, a board-and-batten structure, stands in the southwest of Section F. The cemetery was listed because eight people of transcendent importance are buried there. They include poet and editor William Cullen Bryant, editor Parke Godwin, author Frances Hodgson Burnett, who wrote Little Lord Fauntleroy and The Secret Garden, and Christopher Morley, a prominent twentieth-century man of letters whose novels often drew on Roslyn settings.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Egyptian Revival (Abott-Story mausoleum); otherwise no architectural classification","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still in use as a cemetery; Section G is being developed and Section H is barely developed.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.732671-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/91001534.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001534/5b09740e8f-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/91001534/5b09740e8f-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Muncharelli","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Roslyn_Cemetery.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Muncharelli</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:Roslyn_Cemetery.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75319187","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roslyn_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7369052"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/nassau-county/roslyn-cemetery-91001534/"}