Historic rural cemetery in Hamilton County, Ohio
United States historic place
Spring Grove Cemetery
The Gothic Revival Dexter Memorial at Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum
Show map of the United States Location
Cincinnati ,
Ohio Built 1845 Architect Adolph Strauch et al. Architectural style Gothic Revival NRHP reference
No.
76001440
[1] Added to NRHP May 13, 1976 Designated NHLD March 29, 2007
Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum (733 acres (2.97 km2 )) is a
nonprofit
rural cemetery and
arboretum located at 4521 Spring Grove Avenue,
Cincinnati ,
Ohio . It is the third largest cemetery in the United States, after the
Calverton National Cemetery and
Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery
[2] and is recognized as a US
National Historic Landmark .
History
The cemetery dates from 1844, when members of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society formed a cemetery association. They took their inspiration from contemporary rural cemeteries such as
Père Lachaise Cemetery in
Paris , and
Mount Auburn Cemetery in
Cambridge ,
Massachusetts .
[3] The numerous springs and groves suggested the name "Spring Grove".
[4] On December 1, 1844,
Salmon P. Chase and others prepared the Articles of Incorporation. The cemetery was designed by Howard Daniels
[5] and formally chartered on January 21, 1845. The first burial took place on September 1, 1845.
In 1855,
Adolph Strauch , a renowned
landscape architect , was hired to beautify the grounds.
[6] His sense and layout of the "garden cemetery" made of lakes, trees and shrubs, is what visitors today still see. He created a more open landscape by setting limits on private enclosures and monument heights.
[7] The results of the redesign earned Strauch praise in the U.S. and abroad,
[8] including from
Frederick Law Olmsted and the French landscape architect
Edouard André .
[9] On March 29, 2007, the cemetery was designated a
National Historic Landmark .
[10] The
Spring Grove Cemetery Chapel is listed separately on the National Register of Historic Places.
On October 23, 2013, cemetery staff removed a large and potentially disturbing
SpongeBob SquarePants headstone from the grave of U.S. Army Corporal
Kimberly Walker and another for her still-living sister a day after her funeral. The family believed they had permission from a worker, who management said had erred.
[11] In February 2014, both parties agreed to reinstate the statues with granite slabs largely hiding them from passersby.
[12]
Description
Spring Grove encompasses 733 acres (2.97 km2 ) of which 400 acres (1.6 km2 ) are currently landscaped and maintained. Its grounds include 12 ponds,
[13] many fine tombstones and memorials, and various examples of
Gothic Revival architecture .
As of 2005, its National Champion trees were
Cladrastis kentukea and
Halesia diptera ; its State Champion trees included
Abies cilicica ,
Abies koreana ,
Cedrus libani ,
Chionanthus virginicus ,
Eucommia ulmoides ,
Halesia parvifolia ,
Metasequoia glyptostroboides ,
Phellodendron amurense ,
Picea orientalis ,
Picea polita ,
Pinus flexilis ,
Pinus griffithi ,
Pinus monticola ,
Quercus cerris ,
Quercus nigra ,
Taxodium distichum ,
Ulmus serotina , and
Zelkova serrata .
Notable burials
See also
Category:Burials at Spring Grove Cemetery .
Weeping statue at Spring Grove Cemetery
Grave of
Salmon P. Chase at Spring Grove Cemetery
Jacob Ammen ,
Civil War general
[14]
Nicholas Longworth Anderson , Civil War colonel
[14]
Joshua Hall Bates , Civil War general
[14]
Richard M. Bishop , Cincinnati Mayor and Ohio Governor
[15]
George K. Brady ,
United States Army officer. Briefly
commander of the Department of Alaska
Emma Lucy Braun , botanist
[16]
Charles Elwood Brown , Civil War
brevet
brigadier general and U.S. Representative
[14]
Sidney Burbank , Civil War colonel
[14]
Jacob Burnet , US Senator
[17]
Samuel Fenton Cary ,
Congressman ,
prohibitionist
[18]
Kate Chase , daughter of Salmon Chase and Washington, D.C. Civil War socialite[
citation needed ]
Salmon P. Chase ,
Chief Justice of the United States
[19]
Henry M. Cist , Civil War brevet brigadier general
[14]
Levi Coffin ,
Quaker
abolitionist
[20]
George B. Cox , Cincinnati political boss and associate of
William Howard Taft
Arthur F. Devereux ,
Brevet Brigadier General during the Civil War; from
Salem, Massachusetts
[14]
Daniel Drake , physician and writer
[21]
Charles L. Fleischmann ,
yeast manufacturer[
citation needed ]
Joseph Benson Foraker ,
Governor of Ohio ,
U.S. Senator , Judge,
American Civil War Captain
Manning Force , Civil War Brevet Brigadier General,
Medal of Honor recipient
[14]
George Benson Fox , Civil War officer,
75th Ohio Infantry , manufacturer, Ohio General Assembly
A swan off the shore of Geyser Lake, one of the small bodies of water located within the cemetery.
James Gamble , co-founder of
Procter & Gamble Company
[22]
Kenner Garrard , Civil War general
[14]
Heinie Groh ,
Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame third baseman
[23]
Theodore Sommers Henderson ,
Bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal Church [
citation needed ]
Andrew Hickenlooper , Civil War general
[14]
Joseph Hooker , Civil War general and commander of the
Army of the Potomac at the
Battle of Chancellorsville
[19]
Waite Hoyt , professional baseball player; Hall of Fame pitcher
[24]
Miller Huggins , Hall of Fame baseball manager of
New York Yankees during
Babe Ruth era
[24]
Isaac M. Jordan , one of the seven founders of
Sigma Chi Fraternity
[25]
John William Kilbreth , U.S. Army brigadier general during World War I
Bernard Kroger , founder of
Kroger supermarkets
[22]
Alexander Long ,
Congressman
Nicholas Longworth , Father of American grape culture
Joseph Longworth , art collector and patron, son of Nicholas Longworth
Nicholas Longworth , politician, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, grandson of Nicholas Longworth
William Haines Lytle , 19th century Ohio, general, politician, poet
Joseph Mason , artist, who was an uncredited assistant to
John James Audubon in illustrating
the Birds of America
Stanley Matthews ,
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
Alexander McDowell McCook ,
Union army general
Charles Pettit McIlvaine , Episcopal bishop, author, educator and twice Chaplain of the United States Senate
John McLean ,
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
George Hunt Pendleton , Congressman and US
Senator
Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt , poet
Thomas C. Powell (1865–1945), railroad executive and member of the War Industries Board
[27]
William Procter , co-founder of
Procter and Gamble
[22]
Skip Prosser ,
Wake Forest University men's
basketball head coach at the time of his death, former assistant and head men's basketball coach at
Xavier University
Henry Stanbery ,
Attorney General of the United States
Adolph Strauch , landscape architect, designer of Spring Grove Cemetery
Dudley Sutphin , Cincinnati attorney, judge and
French Legion of Honor medal winner
Alphonso Taft , politician, father of
President of the United States
William Howard Taft
Charles Phelps Taft II , Mayor of Cincinnati and son of President William Howard Taft
Louise Taft , second wife of Alphonso Taft and mother of William Howard Taft
Mary Lee Tate , painter and teacher
[28]
John Morgan Walden ,
Bishop of the
Methodist Episcopal Church
Godfrey Weitzel , Civil War general
Frances Wright , pioneering
feminist , abolitionist, and
freethinker
See also
Notes
^
"National Register Information System" .
National Register of Historic Places .
National Park Service . January 23, 2007.
^
"top-10-largest-cemeteries-in-world" . Archived from
the original on August 17, 2019. Retrieved September 2, 2019 .
^
The Cincinnati Cemetery of Spring Grove, Report for 1857 . C.F. Bradley, printers. 1857. p.
3 .
^
Picturesque Cincinnati . John Shillito Company. 1883. p.
194 .
^
"A Walk in the Park: Spring Grove Cemetery" . Cincinnati.com. Archived from
the original on July 25, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2014 .
^ Stradling, David (2003).
Cincinnati: From River City to Highway Metropolis . Arcadia Publishing. p. 35.
ISBN
9780738524405 . Retrieved May 25, 2013 .
^
"Spring Grove Cemetery | The Cultural Landscape Foundation" . tclf.org .
Archived from the original on March 22, 2018. Retrieved March 22, 2018 .
^ Ratterman, Heinrich (1905). Spring Grove and Its Creator. Edited by Don H. Tolzmann . Cincinnati: [Reprint 1988] Ohio Book Store.
^ André, Édouard (1879).
L'art des jardins / traité général de la composition des parcs et jardins (in French). Paris: G. Masson. p. 868.
Archived from the original on March 22, 2018. Retrieved March 22, 2018 .
^
"National Historic Landmarks Designated" . National Park Service. April 13, 2007.
Archived from the original on November 3, 2013. Retrieved March 11, 2015 .
^
"Ms Walker's family are furious with the graveyard's U-turn after paying $13,000 (£8,000) for the headstone and getting copyright approval from Nickelodeon" . Metro.co.uk. October 23, 2013.
Archived from the original on June 15, 2018. Retrieved October 24, 2013 .
^
"Family, cemetery reinstall SpongeBob headstones but with changes" . Cincinnati: Hearst Television Inc. February 14, 2014.
Archived from the original on September 3, 2016. Retrieved July 17, 2014 .
^ Rolfes, Steven (2012).
Cincinnati Landmarks . Arcadia Publishing. p. 43.
ISBN
9780738593951 .
Archived from the original on November 26, 2023. Retrieved May 19, 2013 .
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"Judge Civil War Generals" (PDF) . The Spring Grove Family. Archived from
the original (PDF) on May 29, 2015. Retrieved July 17, 2014 .
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"Visit to Bishop Grave – Spring Grove Cemetery" . May 17, 2022.
Archived from the original on November 26, 2023. Retrieved May 17, 2022 .
^ Stuckey, Ronald L. (1997).
"Emma Lucy Braun (1889–1971)" . In Grinstein, Louise S.; Biermann, Carol A.; Rose, Rose K. (eds.). Women in the Biological Sciences: A Biobibliographic Sourcebook . Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. p.
46 .
ISBN
0-313-29180-2 .
^
"Judge Jacob Burnet" . The Spring Grove Family.
Archived from the original on July 25, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2014 .
^ Spencer, Thomas E. (1998).
Where They're Buried . Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Company. p. 264.
ISBN
978-0-8063-4823-0 .
Archived from the original on August 21, 2022. Retrieved August 21, 2022 – via
Google Books .
^
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"Judge Jacob Notable Burials" . The Spring Grove Family.
Archived from the original on October 13, 2018. Retrieved July 17, 2014 .
^
"Levi Coffin" . National Park Service.
Archived from the original on July 26, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2014 .
^ Juettner, Otto (1909).
1785–1909: Daniel Drake and his followers; historical and biographical sketches . Harvey Publishing Company. p.
70 . Retrieved July 17, 2014 . Daniel Drake spring grove cemetery.
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"Spring Grove Cemetery" . Cincinnati.com. Archived from
the original on July 25, 2014. Retrieved July 18, 2014 .
^
"Heinie Groh Stats" . Baseball Almanac.
Archived from the original on July 16, 2014. Retrieved July 18, 2014 .
^
a
b Cook, William A. (2004).
Waite Hoyt: A Biography of the Yankees' Schoolboy Wonder . McFarland. p. 209.
ISBN
9780786419609 .
Archived from the original on April 14, 2022. Retrieved July 17, 2014 .
^
"Isaac M. Jordan" . Sigma Chi Fraternity. February 6, 2012.
Archived from the original on June 25, 2014. Retrieved July 18, 2014 .
^
"Death Comes to Railway Official" . The Cincinnati Enquirer . February 11, 1945. p. 16.
Archived from the original on January 28, 2024. Retrieved January 28, 2024 – via
Newspapers.com .
^
"Tate, Mary Lee" . Notable Kentucky African Americans Database .
University of Kentucky Libraries . May 30, 2023. Retrieved April 16, 2024 .
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