{"nrhp_refnum":"97001439","name":"Cypress Hills National Cemetery","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"625 Jamaica Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Brooklyn","county":"Brooklyn","state":"NY","lat":40.690721015000065,"lon":-73.88013257778853,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1997-11-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Military","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A Civil War era national cemetery at 625 Jamaica Avenue in Brooklyn, New York, established in 1862, with two additional areas (Union Grounds and Mount of Victory Plot) inside the nearby private Cypress Hills Cemetery.","why_significant":"The nomination finds it significant under Criteria A and C, with Military and Architecture as areas of significance. It holds Union and Confederate dead, War of 1812 veterans, Medal of Honor recipients and other notable burials. Its 1887 lodge, designed by Montgomery C. Meigs, departs from the usual Second Empire lodge design.","narrative":"Cypress Hills National Cemetery occupies a site on Jamaica Avenue in Brooklyn, with two further burial areas, the Union Grounds and the Mount of Victory Plot, located within the neighboring private Cypress Hills Cemetery. Established in 1862, it contains more than 18,000 graves. Among those buried are 488 Confederate prisoners of war, veterans of the War of 1812, and 24 Medal of Honor recipients. The grounds include a brick lodge built in 1887 to a design by Montgomery C. Meigs, whose L-shaped plan, multiple gables and slate roof recall the Queen Anne style rather than the Second Empire lodges typical of the period. A limestone rostrum from 1939, ornamental iron gates from 1886 and five commemorative monuments add to the site, including memorials to French sailors of World War I and to British sailors lost in 1783. The cemetery was recognized for its military associations and its architecture, with 1854 to 1939 as the period of significance.","period_of_significance":"1854-1939","architect_builder":"Meigs, Montgomery C.","architectural_style":"Late Victorian: Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Closed to new burials in 1954 except in occupied and reserved graves; interments in those graves continue. The lodge is leased to a local nonprofit and used as an office, meeting room and museum.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:51.52861-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_AL/97001439.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001439/24479fc145-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/97001439/24479fc145-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"K72ndst","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cypress_hills_6.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">K72ndst</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:Cypress_hills_6.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/77835269","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cypress_Hills_National_Cemetery","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5200340"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/brooklyn/cypress-hills-national-cemetery-97001439/"}