{"nrhp_refnum":"95000818","name":"Shockoe Hill Cemetery","other_names":["Shockoe Cemetery","VDHR File No. 127-389"],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Jct. of Hospital and 2nd Sts.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.551682636000066,"lon":-77.43204157222159,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1995-07-07","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Art","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 12.7-acre municipal burying ground on the north side of downtown Richmond, Virginia, bounded by Second, Hospital, Fourth and Bates streets. The City of Richmond opened it in 1822 as the New Burying Ground on Shockoe Hill.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the cemetery is significant for its wide variety of stone and metal funerary art, its planned grid layout, and its surviving nineteenth-century plantings. It also holds the graves of figures important to the nation, Virginia and Richmond. It is described as nationally significant as an early municipal cemetery involving many eastern artists and craftsmen, and it may yield information on nineteenth-century social history.","narrative":"Shockoe Hill Cemetery is a 12.7-acre municipal burying ground on the north side of downtown Richmond, Virginia. The city opened it in 1822 on a four-acre tract as St. John's Churchyard filled, and later purchases in 1833 and 1850 brought it to its present size. Four avenues divide the grounds into nine areas in a grid that mirrors the city's street plan, and a brick wall encloses the whole site. More than a thousand stone and metal memorials survive, including sculpted angels, classical columns, cradle stones, sarcophagi, cast-iron fences and zinc \"white bronze\" monuments, many carved by Richmond marble artists. Roughly 36,000 interments have been made. Burials include Chief Justice John Marshall, Revolutionary War soldier Peter Francisco, Governor William H. Cabell, engineer Claudius Crozet, and Elizabeth Van Lew. The nomination presents the cemetery as significant for its funerary art, its planned landscape, and what the monuments reveal about nineteenth-century social history.","period_of_significance":"1820-1900","architect_builder":"Davies, John W.; Mountjoy, William and J.; Rogers, John T.; Miller, William; Wallen, James; Wray, Andrew","architectural_style":"Early Republic; Mid-19th Century: Exotic Revival; Late Victorian","criteria":["C","D"],"status_note":"Inactive burial ground maintained as a park by the City of Richmond; many monuments have lost inscriptions and detail, and only portions of the original fences and gates remain.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:00.887147-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/99/6831/41683199/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/95000818.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000818/64d719fed8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/95000818/64d719fed8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Jmurden","credit_html":"Jmurden, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shockoe_cemetery.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"100007793","name":"Shockoe Hill Burying Ground Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/virginia/shockoe-hill-burying-ground-historic-district-100007793/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41683199","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shockoe_Hill_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3959678"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/shockoe-hill-cemetery-95000818/"}