Grove Street Cemetery

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Grove Street Cemetery is a historic 19th-century burial ground in New Haven, Connecticut, known as one of the first chartered cemetery associations in the United States and the resting place of many prominent Yale-affiliated figures.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cemetery
chartered cemetery association
historic place
addedToNRHP 2000
adjacentTo Yale University campus
architectOfGateway Henry Austin
coordinateLocation 41.311°N 72.927°W
country United States of America
surface form: United States
hasArchitecturalStyle Egyptian Revival
hasBurial Alfred Whitney Griswold
Arthur Twining Hadley
Bart Giamatti
Benjamin Silliman
Charles Goodyear
Charles Seymour
Edward Alexander Bouchet
surface form: Edward Bouchet

Eli Whitney
Elias Howe
Erastus Root
Ira Remsen
Jeremiah Day
John William Sterling
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Kingman Brewster Jr.
Lyman Beecher
Mabel Osgood Wright
Noah Webster
Othniel Charles Marsh
surface form: O. C. Marsh

Roger Sherman
Simeon Baldwin
Simeon Eben Baldwin
Theodore Dwight Woolsey
Timothy Dwight IV
Timothy Dwight V
Walter Camp
William Graham Sumner
hasCity New Haven, Connecticut
surface form: New Haven
hasHeritageDesignation National Historic Landmark
hasLandscapeType rural cemetery
hasLayout rectangular grid
hasNumberOfBurials over 14,000
hasPart Egyptian Revival entrance gateway
hasSignificance first chartered burial ground in the United States organized as a private, nonprofit corporation
hasState Connecticut
hasWebsite https://www.grovestreetcemetery.org/
heritageDesignationDate 2000
inception 1796
locatedIn Connecticut
New England
New Haven County
surface form: New Haven County, Connecticut

New Haven, Connecticut
locatedInTimeZone Eastern Time Zone
locatedOnStreet Grove Street NERFINISHED
notableFor being one of the first chartered cemetery associations in the United States
burials of many Yale University affiliates
grid-plan layout with named avenues and paths
NRHPReferenceNumber 00001293
opened 1797
ownedBy Grove Street Cemetery self-linksurface differs
surface form: Grove Street Cemetery Association

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Joseph E. Sheffield burialPlace Grove Street Cemetery
Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut ownedBy Grove Street Cemetery
subject surface form: Grove Street Cemetery
this entity surface form: Grove Street Cemetery Association
Grove Street Cemetery ownedBy Grove Street Cemetery self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Grove Street Cemetery Association
Hiram Bingham I placeOfBurial Grove Street Cemetery
Jeremiah Day burialPlace Grove Street Cemetery
Timothy Dwight IV placeOfBurial Grove Street Cemetery
Roger Sherman Baldwin burialPlace Grove Street Cemetery
James Hillhouse burialPlace Grove Street Cemetery