{"nrhp_refnum":"98000164","name":"Hope Cemetery and Mausoleum","other_names":[],"category":"site","location":{"address":"Main St., at the town limits","address_restricted":false,"city":"Newark Valley","county":"Tioga County","state":"NY","lat":42.21119162150006,"lon":-76.1900867031908,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-03-16","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Agriculture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A community cemetery of 8.2 acres on the east side of Main Street at the southern edge of Newark Valley, Tioga County, New York, established in 1820, with a neo-classical reinforced-concrete mausoleum built in 1926 on the opposite side of the street.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under Criterion C for the architectural and artistic value of the gravestones and monuments, which illustrate attitudes toward death and burial from the early nineteenth century through the Victorian era. The cemetery has been in continuous community use since 1820 and holds well-preserved, legible early slate tablets showing fine carving craftsmanship. It is tied to the town's settlement and village development contexts.","narrative":"Hope Cemetery occupies 8.2 acres on the east side of Main Street at the southern edge of Newark Valley, New York. It began in 1820 as a half-acre village burial ground and grew through additions between 1866 and 1931, and the Hope Cemetery Association took over management in 1870. Gravel paths form two intersecting grids. Early slate tablets from the 1820s and 1830s remain legible and show fine carving, while later marble and granite monuments reflect Victorian and twentieth-century tastes. Across the street stands a mausoleum built in 1926 of reinforced concrete with marble-paneled interiors. Designed by Charles W. Smith of Waverly, it recalls a Greek temple and reportedly holds more than two hundred crypts. Its cost was reported as far above that of any other town building except the Central School. The property was listed for the artistic and architectural value of its gravestones and monuments, which trace changing attitudes toward death and memorialization from early settlement onward, along with its continuous community use since 1820.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1820-1947","architect_builder":"Mausoleum designed by Charles W. Smith of Waverly, New York; concrete work by Vern Sloat of Athens, Pennsylvania","architectural_style":"Mausoleum: neo-classical, strongly reminiscent of Greek Revival; Architectural classification otherwise N/A","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Cemetery remains in continuous use as a cemetery; the privy is abandoned and the original fence and 1911 entrance gate are gone.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:50.596293-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/98000164.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000164/fc3faff938-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98000164/fc3faff938-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Delphinium1","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hope_Mausoleum_Newark_Valley_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Delphinium1</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:Hope_Mausoleum_Newark_Valley_NY.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315118","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope_Cemetery_and_Mausoleum","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5899184"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/tioga-county/hope-cemetery-and-mausoleum-98000164/"}