Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, United States

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Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, Illinois, is a historic 19th-century garden cemetery known for its notable burials, landscaped grounds, and significant funerary art and architecture.

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Graceland Cemetery 0
Graceland Cemetery, Chicago 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cemetery
garden cemetery
historic site
adjacentTo Montrose Cemetery
continent North America
country United States of America
surface form: United States
designedAs rural cemetery
hasArchitect Holabird & Roche
Lorado Taft
Louis Sullivan
William Le Baron Jenney
hasArchitecturalStyle Beaux-Arts
Gothic Revival
Neo-Romanesque
surface form: Romanesque Revival

Victorian
landscape architecture
hasFeature family plots
lakes
mature trees
mausoleums
sculptural monuments
winding paths
hasLandscapeArchitect H. W. S. Cleveland
Ossian Cole Simonds
hasNotableBurial Allan Pinkerton
Cyrus McCormick
Daniel Burnham
Ernie Banks
George Pullman
Jack Johnson
John Peter Altgeld
Joseph Medill
Louis Sullivan
Marshall Field
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
surface form: Mies van der Rohe

Oscar Mayer
Philip Armour
Potter Palmer
Victor Lawson
William Le Baron Jenney
hasNotableStructure Burnham family island NERFINISHED
Eternal Silence monument
Palmer family mausoleum
Pullman family monument
Statue of the Reclining Woman (The Couch) by Lorado Taft
Sullivan-designed monuments
hasPostalAddress 4001 North Clark Street, Chicago, Illinois
hasUse burial ground
historic landscape
tourist attraction
heritageDesignation Chicago Landmark
National Register of Historic Places
surface form: National Register of Historic Places listing
inception 1860
locatedIn Chicago, Illinois, United States
surface form: Chicago

Illinois
locatedInAdministrativeTerritorialEntity Cook County, Illinois
locatedInNeighborhood North Side of Chicago
surface form: Uptown, Chicago
locatedInTimeZone Central Time Zone
notableFor architectural monuments
funerary art
landscaped grounds
monumental sculpture
notable burials
NRHPType historic district
openToPublic yes
operator Graceland Cemetery
surface form: Graceland Cemetery Association
ownedBy private association

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Burnham burialPlace Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, United States
subject surface form: Daniel Burnham
this entity surface form: Graceland Cemetery, Chicago
Harry Hopkins burialPlace Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois, United States