{"nrhp_refnum":"98001396","name":"Woodlawn Cemetery","other_names":["Historic Woodlawn Cemetery"],"category":"district","location":{"address":"1502 W. Central Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Toledo","county":"Lucas County","state":"OH","lat":41.68158123900005,"lon":-83.57944140425843,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1998-11-19","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Architecture","Landscape Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Woodlawn Cemetery is a private rural-style cemetery district at 1502 W. Central Avenue in Toledo, Lucas County, Ohio, founded in the 1870s and laid out on a landscape lawn plan with buildings, mausoleums, a bridge and fence dating from 1883 to 1923.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the cemetery is an intact example of the rural cemetery movement and the landscape lawn plan, with a carefully planned park-like setting of lakes, winding roads and mature trees. It also contains notable funerary architecture, including neoclassical and Egyptian Revival mausoleums, and reflects the growth of Toledo. It is marked for architecture and landscape architecture under Criterion C.","narrative":"Woodlawn Cemetery in Toledo, Ohio, is a rural-style burial ground laid out in the 1870s on the landscape lawn plan promoted by Adolph Strauch. Philadelphia landscape architect Edward Schwagerl drew its original lot and section plan, which is still followed. Winding roads cross gently rolling ground, and two connected ornamental lakes with small islands anchor the design. Trees of about 300 species and a bird population of some 200 species add to the park-like character. The grounds hold four contributing buildings, including a Romanesque limestone office of 1903 built around a bell tower and a chapel dedicated in 1883 that became a crematory chapel in 1923. A two-mile iron fence dates from 1915 and a concrete bridge from 1913. Forty-two private mausoleums, some neoclassical or Egyptian Revival with Tiffany glass and bronze doors, and distinctive monuments illustrate funerary design. The cemetery also reflects Toledo's growth, as the expanding city reached its edge by 1908.","period_of_significance":"1876-1953","architect_builder":"Edward O. Schwagerl (Schwagerl and Co. of Philadelphia, lawn plan); Stewert Iron Works Company (fence, 1915); Wyncoop and McGormley (bridge, 1913); Lloyd Brothers Monument Company","architectural_style":"Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals: Classical Revivals (Neo-classical), Late Gothic Revival, Exotic Revival (Egyptian Revival); Romanesque office building","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still an operating cemetery; the original chapel is no longer used for services or cremations, and the comfort station is largely unused.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:07.438118-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_OH/98001396.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001396/1b566c9ac8-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/98001396/1b566c9ac8-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY 2.0","author":"sally9258","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodlawn_Cemetery_concrete_bridge.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">sally9258</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY 2.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodlawn_Cemetery_concrete_bridge.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71990005","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodlawn_Cemetery_(Toledo,_Ohio)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14716957"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/ohio/lucas-county/woodlawn-cemetery-98001396/"}