Forest Lawn Cemetery

Forest Lawn Cemetery covers 267 acres in the center of Buffalo, about three miles from downtown. Its winding roads, lakes, creek and rolling bluffs follow the rural cemetery tradition, and a wrought iron fence encloses the grounds. The landscape began with a design by Charles C. Clarke, and engineer Joseph Earnshaw later expanded the road network. Buildings and structures include a Gothic limestone chapel from 1882, a Neo-classical administration building from 1907 by George Cary, a Beaux Arts Main Street gate from 1901 by Henry Osgood Holland, a Colonial Revival superintendent's residence, and four limestone arch bridges. Mausolea and monuments, among them the Letchworth-Skinner mausoleum, the Blocher memorial and the Orson Phelps monument, display Greek, Gothic, Romanesque and Egyptian Revival styles. Millard Fillmore is buried here. The cemetery was listed as a district for its landscape design and its funerary art, which together record regional burial customs from about 1850 to 1940.