Lake View Cemetery: Silent City on a Hill
Description
Lake View Cemetery, is as diverse as the City of Cleveland. This Cemetery will look at the History of Lakeview, with special emphasis on certain architecual projects, notable deaths, and what you can do throughout the seasons within the walls of the Cemetery.
When Lake View was first built the founders wanted to have something that they could be proud of within their city. The founders believed that the city should have a rural, or garden cemetry, like those found in Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery, and Cincinnatti's Spring Grove Cemetery.
Lake View was created on the outskirt of the city, and would include dramatic landscapes enhanced by curved roads, artful plantings, and carefully designed monuments.
The Story of Lake View is also the Story of Cleveland. Lake View is the final resting place for many of the cities civic leaders including some of the oldest political, cultural, and economic institutional leaders. The classes, religious ethnic diversity has altered Lake View Cemetery's landscape. Thus changing ideas about remembering life and death. Now situated in the heart of Cleveland communitites, Lake View will continue to enliven and enrich the lives its visitors and neighbors.
Credits
Shiah Fish
Sections
Buildings Erect
Throughout Lake View Cemetery, there have been countless tombstones, and monuments. However, there have been four major building projects that have helped shape the layout of the Cemetery. These include the Garfield Memorial, Wade Chapel, the Community Mausoleum, and the Lake View Dam. All of these projects have helped to contribute to the surrounding beauty of the living cemetery.
Who is buried in that plot
Lake View Cemetery is home to over 105,000 residents, who just do not want to leave. On average Lake View sees 700 burials a year, including entombment, casket burials, and cremations.Over the years there have been numerous burials which have helped build the history of the Cemetery, Some of the buried include people who have their own buildings such as James A. Garfield with the Garfield Memorial/Monument, as well as the Jeptha Homer Wade, and the Wade Chapel, along with his monument and memorial. Others include the John D. Rockefeller memorial, the Collinwood School Fire memorial, along with other civic leaders, and members of Cleveland's many religions, races, and nationalities.
Community Memory
Lake View Cemetery has seen its share of community disasters. Starting with the Collinwood School fire of 1908. But Lake View Cemetery, is also home to veterans of foreign and domestic wars. As well as people who have had tragic accidents. Accidents that have brought people and the community closer.
A Place for the Living
While Lake View may be a cemetery it is also a place for the living. Tens of thousands of people come here every year to visit grave sites, admire the landscape and monuments, to picnic, take photographs, walk the dog, and take tours. It is also home to both Revolutionary and Civil War reenacted regiments. The place boasts a wide range of flowers, and trees, and is its own self supporting eco system to a wide range of forestry animals.