Woodlawn Cemetery

I love to just wander through the cemetery, but if you have a specific agenda, let the guard near the gate know, and you can probably receive a map.

From the New York Times:

At Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, from the mid-19th century through much of the 20th, death inspired a creative outpouring of remarkable artistry, variety and even surprise: for example, an urn by the sculptor Alexander Archipenko and a landscaped monument by Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, the planner of New Delhi.

The record of this work (blueprints, booklets, drawings, ledgers, letters, maps, photographs, plans, receipts, sketches and trade catalogs) is so illuminating and important that Woodlawn’s trustees formally donated the cemetery archives last month to the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library atColumbia University.

Forgotten Treasures in the Woodlawn Cemetery Archives