Designer: Unknown Location: Border Avenue between Dale Avenue and Sassafras Avenue Saved in Time Estimate: $8,000 For cleaning and repair of granite markers; replication of missing urn; and fabrication and installation of interpretive plaque (details below). Doctor Susan (Smith) McKinney-Steward was the first African-American woman physician in New York State and third in the United … Read more
Designer: Robert Launitz, sc. Location: Lake Avenue and Sylvan Avenue, near Sylvan Water Saved in Time: 2005 Do-Hum-Me was the eighteen-year-old daughter of Nan-Nouce-Push-Ee-Toe, a chief of the Sac and Fox Nation* who traveled east in 1843 from their native lands in Iowa to participate in treaty negotiations with the federal government. The occasion resulted in her meeting … Read more
Erected in 1869 Restoration of Granite Pedestal, Plaques and Trophies Designer: Uncertain Location: “The Plateau,” Battle Avenue and Border Avenue Saved in Time: 2003 This impressive monument, dedicated by the City of New York to ITS HEROIC DEAD, and to the 148,000 soldiers enlisted for service in the Civil War, stands on “The Plateau,” or … Read more
Sculptor: Lebretham Founder: L. S. Jacquin Location: Battle Avenue between Bay View Avenue and Bayview Path Saved in Time: 2005 While theater in New York City dates back to the Colonial Period, it was not until 1866 that the Black Crook was staged at Niblo’s Garden (William Niblo is also buried at Green-Wood), Broadway and … Read more
Designer: Unknown Location: Above Hillside Avenue, between Ocean Avenue and Aurora Path Saved in Time: 2003 General Slocum is perhaps the best known and most highly regarded Civil War general of the Union buried in Green-Wood. He was educated at West Point and served in the Seminole War, but resigned from the Army and went … Read more
Designer: Unknown Location: Crest of hill, intersection of Highland Avenue and Cornus Avenue Saved in Time: 2002 Henry J. Raymond was the founder and first editor of The New York Times. He launched his newspaper in 1851, publishing editorials expressing strong sentiments “emphasizing reason over passion and impartiality over partisanship.” He was politically active, becoming … Read more
Designer: Unknown Location: Dawn Path, up grade off Hillside Avenue Saved in Time: 2006 A stark and simple granite monument marks the grave of Henry Ward Beecher, the nationally renowned abolitionist and religious orator on public morality and social issues. Beginning in 1847 Beecher served as minister of the Plymouth Congregational Church in Brooklyn Heights, … Read more
Designer: Unknown Location: Border Avenue, between Hemlock Avenue and Jasmine Avenue Saved in Time: 2004 The bronze plaque in the form of a baseball “diamond” featuring home plate and bases remembers Henry Chadwick as the “Father of Baseball,” a reference attributed to President Theodore Roosevelt. Born in England and coming to America as a boy, … Read more
Our Civil War Project is an effort to identify and remember Civil War veterans buried
The Green-Wood Historic Fund has begun a long-anticipated campaign to re-create the sculpture of an intricately designed “Angel of Music” that once topped the marble pedestal marking the grave of legendary 19th-century American composer and pianist Louis Moreau Gottschalk (1829–1869). Green-Wood’s President Richard J. Moylan, with the assistance of the National Sculpture Society, has solicited … Read more
Utilizing The Gottschalk Project is an exciting opportunity for Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery to commission a major new work of sculpture that will endure for centuries to come. It will also be an impressive addition to the cemetery’s significant body of sculpture that already graces many gravesites. (see also: National Sculpture Society Sculptors of Green-Wood) The … Read more
Saved in Time is a direct appeal to philanthropic individuals, organizations and companies to join The Green-Wood Historic Fund in conserving and restoring a selection of our endangered monuments, and to aid us in our obligation to preserve the artistic legacy of the past. To learn more about “adopting” a specific monument or contributing … Read more
William Wheatley and Burnham Family Lot Two more significant monuments have been restored recently by The Green-Wood Historic Fund. The monument to William Wheatley, co-producer of the first American musical, The Black Crook (1866), and also the theatrical agent for an actor by the name of John Wilkes Booth, was recently restored by Aegis Restauro. … Read more
Green-Wood staff meticulously document the restoration and preservation processes for monuments around the cemetery. Restoration can be as simple as cleaning an existing monument, uncovering a lost monument from the ground or full restoration and fabrication of broken or missing monument pieces. Click here for more on the Saved in Time program’s completed and ongoing … Read more
Writer Paul Auster is both prolific and award-winning. His most recent book, Sunset Park, was published this year. Auster was recently asked by Travel & Leisure to name his favorite place. The choice was an easy one for him: Green-Wood Cemetery. He describes Green-Wood as “one of the most remarkable places in all of New … Read more
At a recent Weschler’s auction in Washington, D.C., Green-Wood’s permanent residents did very well. The top lot of the auction was “A Young Aspiring Sailor” by John George Brown (1831-1913), which soared to $192,950. A native of England, Brown studied painting there, then came to America in 1853 and settled in Brooklyn. There he continued … Read more
Marge Raymond and Rob Jett have been birding at Green-Wood for years. And, remarkably, after all these years, they still are making new discoveries. So, just last week, they were out birding at Green-Wood when they came across something they never before had seen there: a flock of bluebirds. Now, I know from a fifth … Read more
On Friday, November 12, Philip Carlo, who wrote best-sellers about serial killers and hit men, was laid to rest at Green-Wood. He died from Lou Gehrig’s disease (A.L.S.) and cancer at the age of 61. Carlo was born and grew up in Bensonhurst. Here’s how he described, in an interview a year ago, the early … Read more