Elmwood Cemetery (Kansas City, Missouri)
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| Location | 4900 Truman Rd., Kansas City, Missouri |
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| Coordinates | 39°5′46″N 94°31′33″W / 39.09611°N 94.52583°WCoordinates: 39°5′46″N 94°31′33″W / 39.09611°N 94.52583°W |
| Built | 1872 |
| Architect | Kessler, George |
| NRHP reference No. | 83001002 |
| Added to NRHP | July 28, 1983[1] |
Elmwood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery[2] located at 4900 Truman Road at Van Brunt Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. It was formally organized in 1872 and was landscaped by George Kessler. The first burial was in 1840. Notable features include the Public vault and crematorium (c. 1897), Entrance Gate and Fence (c. 1900), Kirkland B. Armour Chapel (1904, 1917), and Cemetery Office (1925).[3] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]
Notable burials[]
Kansas City Mayors[]
- Edward Herrick Allen
- Thomas Bulene
- James Cowgill
- Webster Davis
- Turner Anderson Gill
- William S. Gregory
- Henry C. Kumpf
- Francis R. Long
- Edward L. Martin
Others[]
- , Armour Packing executive
- , Armour Packing executive
- , Armour Packing executive
- , Armour Packing executive
- , Civil War general
- Mary McAfee Atkins, donated money for the Nelson-Atkins Gallery of Art
- , Sweetheart of Abraham Lincoln
- William Patterson Borland, Congressman; sculpture by Jorgen Dreyer
- , Civil War general
- Theodore Case, founder of Kansas City Post
- , Kansas City's Madame
- Kersey Coates, real estate developer
- Abram Comingo, Congressman
- , Walt Disney cartoonist
- , Civil War general
- Thomas Hackney, Congressman
- , founder of Helzberg Diamonds
- Zeralda James, Jesse James wife (moved later)
- James Johnson Lindley, Congressman
- , member of the Wild Bunch[4]
- , founder of Kansas City Unions baseball team
- August Meyer, engineer and parks commissioner[5]
- , Marine Corps general / stepfather was Jules Stein of MCA entertainment empire
- John William Reid, Congressman
- Frank Ringo, baseball player
- William Warner, Congressman
- , founder of Jenkins Music Company
- , a long career of church and community work
- , Livestock, Capitalist, Banker, real estate
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Linden, Blanche M.G. (2007). Silent City on a Hill: Picturesque Landscapes of Memory and Boston's Mount Auburn Cemetery. Amherst, Massachusetts: University of Massachusetts Press. p. 295. ISBN 978-1-55849-571-5. Retrieved September 20, 2019.
- ^ Sherry Piland, Ellen Uguccioni, and James M. Denny (February 1983). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Elmwood Cemetery" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved March 1, 2017.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) (includes 11 photographs from 1982)
- ^ "Peaceful piece of KC's past threatened". Kansas City Star. April 11, 2007. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007. Retrieved December 31, 2015.
- ^ "City News". The Iola Register. December 4, 1905. p. 5. Retrieved December 10, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.
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Categories:
- Cemeteries on the National Register of Historic Places in Missouri
- 1872 establishments in Missouri
- Geography of Kansas City, Missouri
- Tourist attractions in Kansas City, Missouri
- Buildings and structures in Kansas City, Missouri
- National Register of Historic Places in Kansas City, Missouri
- Rural cemeteries