Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut

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Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, Connecticut is a historic 18th-century burial ground known for its notable interments, including prominent American statesman Roger Sherman.


Statements (64)
Predicate Object
instanceOf burial ground
cemetery
historic place
affiliation Yale University community
country United States of America
surface form: "United States"
establishedInCentury 18th century
hasArchitecturalStyle Egyptian Revival
Greek Revival elements
hasCity New Haven NERFINISHED
hasCountry United States of America
surface form: "United States"
hasEntranceOn Grove Street NERFINISHED
hasFunction burial
commemoration
historic site
hasLandscapeType urban cemetery
hasLayout rectilinear grid
hasNotableBurial A. Whitney Griswold
Arthur Twining Hadley
Bart Giamatti
Benjamin Silliman
Charles A. Goodyear
Charles Goodyear
Eli Whitney
Elias Howe
Jeremiah Day
Josiah Willard Gibbs
Kingman Brewster Jr.
Kingman Brewster Jr.
surface form: "Kingman Brewster, Jr."

Lyman Beecher
Noah Webster
Othniel Charles Marsh
Roger Sherman
Roger Sherman Baldwin
Simeon Baldwin
Simeon Eben Baldwin
Theodore Dwight Woolsey
Timothy Dwight IV
Timothy Dwight IV
surface form: "Timothy Dwight V"

Walter Camp
William W. Boardman
hasNotableFeature family plots
monumental gateway
ornamental plantings
hasState Connecticut
heritageDesignation National Historic Landmark
surface form: "U.S. National Historic Landmark"

National Register of Historic Places
surface form: "U.S. National Register of Historic Places listing"
inception 1796
isEarlyPlannedCemetery true
isOutsideCityChurchyards true
locatedIn Connecticut
New Haven, Connecticut
surface form: "Downtown New Haven"

New England
New Haven County
surface form: "New Haven County, Connecticut"

New Haven, Connecticut
nearbyInstitution Yale University
nearbyNeighborhood Yale campus area
notableFor Egyptian Revival entrance gateway
early planned cemetery design
grid plan layout
notable interments
NRHPType historic district
opened 1797
ownedBy Grove Street Cemetery
surface form: "Grove Street Cemetery Association"
streetAddress Grove Street NERFINISHED

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Eli Whitney burialPlace Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut
this entity surface form: "Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut, United States"
Roger Sherman burialPlace Grove Street Cemetery, New Haven, Connecticut

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