The Landscape and Living Collection
Green-Wood is an accredited level III arboretum with a living collection comprised of about 8,000 living specimens. That’s 695 species and hybrids (including cultivars), representing 61 taxonomic families and 159 different genera. Green-Wood is also home to a wide variety of avifauna, herpetofauna, mammals, and pollinating insects that attract the gaze of the naturalist communities.
The Green-Wood Historical Collections
Green-Wood has an extensive collection of artworks and artifacts that collectively illuminate the rich history of the Cemetery and its permanent residents. Items include over 600 works of art; 1,000 published volumes; and thousands of photographs, letters, advertisements, and other ephemera.
The Institutional Archives
There are hundreds of thousands of records that document the day-to-day business activities of The Green-Wood Cemetery from its founding in 1838 to the present. They include documentation of the Cemetery’s creation and development, heirship records, burial orders, correspondence, transfer records, architectural drawings, and photographs.