Manhattan · NYC landmark
New York Marble Cemetery
interior of the block bounded by East 2nd and East 3rd Streets, Second Avenue, and the Bowery · Manhattan, New York City
Underground marble vaults leave a garden without individual gravestones.
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NYFE Summary
Families bought marble burial chambers beneath the lawn. Names and vault numbers were recorded on plaques in the surrounding walls, leaving the garden without rows of individual gravestones.
The project was a business venture by Perkins Nichols and lawyers Anthony Dey and George W. Strong. Sales of the vaults paid for their construction.
NYFE summary from the official history and visitor sources linked below.
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