Fairmount Cemetery (Denver, Colorado)

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Fairmount Cemetery
View of Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, Colorado.jpg
A view of Fairmount Cemetery with the Little Ivy Chapel in the background.
Details
Established1890
Location
Denver, Colorado
CountryUnited States
TypeNon denominational
Size280-acre (1.1 km2)
WebsiteFairmount Cemetery
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The Political GraveyardFairmount Cemetery
Map, Shows roads, some block numbers, bodies of water, mortuary, gate lodge and green houses.

Fairmount Cemetery in Denver, Colorado, was founded in 1890 and is Denver's second oldest operating cemetery after Riverside Cemetery.[1][2] It was designed by German landscape architect .[3] The cemetery was patterned after Mount Auburn Cemetery in Boston. The cemetery is 280 acres. The first year the cemetery opened over 4500 trees and shrubs were planted by Schuetze.[4] The cemetery is the largest arboretum in the state.

The cemetery contains many fine monuments, including works by Robert Garrison, John Paulding, Arnold Ronnebeck, Pompeo Coppini and others.[5]

The cemetery also contains 3 structures which have been designated as official historic landmarks by the City of Denver: the Little Ivy Chapel, the Gate Lodge, and the Fairmount Mausoleum. The Little Ivy Chapel and the Gate Lodge were both constructed in 1890, the year the cemetery opened, and were designed by architect . The Fairmount Mausoleum, constructed in 1929 and opened in 1930, was designed by architects and .[3]

Notable burials[]

The main entrance to the Fairmount Mausoleum
The Bethell-Foster monument
  • Ralph Lawrence Carr (1887–1950), Colorado Governor
  • John Milton Chivington (1821–1894), Methodist pastor and Union Army colonel, responsible for Sand Creek massacre
  • George Washington Cook (1851–1916), US Representative from Colorado
  • Job Adams Cooper (1843–1899), Colorado Governor
  • Edward Prentiss Costigan (1874–1939), US Senator
  • Peter Hoyt Dominick (1915–1981), US Representative from Colorado, US Senator
  • Stephen Wallace Dorsey (1842–1916), US Senator from Arkansas
  • Major Jacob Downing (1830–1907), Lawyer, Civil War Officer
  • William Robb Eaton (1877–1942), US Representative from Colorado
  • Frank Edbrooke (1840–1921), leading architect in Denver
  • John Elitch (1851–1891), founder of Elitch Gardens
  • Mary Elitch (1856–1936), co founder of Elitch Gardens
  • Justina Ford (1871–1952), medical pioneer
  • Dean Milton Gillespie (1884–1949), US Congressman
  • Frank Graham (1914–1950), announcer and voice actor – unmarked
  • James Benton Grant (1848–1911), Colorado Governor
Autumn in Fairmount Cemetery
  • Emily Griffith (1860–1947), founder of Emily Griffith Opportunity School
  • Julius Caldeen Gunter (1858–1940), Colorado Governor
  • Frank Leslie Hagaman (1894–1966), Kansas Governor
  • Warren Armstrong Haggott (1864–1958), US Representative from Colorado
  • Irving Hale (1861–1930), founder of Veterans of Foreign Wars
  • Moses Hallett (1834–1913), Chief Justice, US District Judge
  • Samuel Hartsel (1834–1918), Colorado ranching pioneer
  • Nathaniel Peter Hill (1832–1900), US Senator
  • Louise Sneed Hill (1862–1955) wife of Crawford Hill, head of the famous Denver society set called the Sacred 36
  • Herbert Alonzo Howe (1858–1926), American astronomer, educator, author, Dean of Denver University
  • Robert Lee Howsam (1918–2008), co-founder of the Denver Broncos
  • Charles James Hughes Jr. (1853–1911), US Senator
  • John Wesley Iliff (1831–1878), prominent cattle rancher
  • Byron L. Johnson (1917–2000), US Representative from Colorado
  • Edwin Carl 'Big Ed' Johnson (1884–1970), Colorado Governor, US Senator
  • Harold Irving Johnston (1892–1949), World War I Medal of Honor Recipient
The William J. Barker mausoleum
Francis Brown Lowry monument by John Paulding

References[]

  1. ^ Colorado museums and historic sites. University Press of Colorado. 2000. ISBN 0-87081-572-5. Many of Colorado's leading figures are interred in Fairmount Cemetery, founded in 1890 in southeast Denver, ...
  2. ^ "Fairmount Cemetery". Denver Rocky Mountain News. October 31, 1999. Archived from the original on October 26, 2012. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
  3. ^ a b "Fairmount Cemetery". Fairmount Cemetery, Denver. Retrieved 2009-07-07.
  4. ^ "Fairmount Cemetery". Fairmount Cemetery, Denver. Retrieved 2011-06-06.
  5. ^ Kvaran, Einar Einarsson Cemetery Sculpture in America, unpublished manuscript
  6. ^ "Pillar of Fire Bishop Dies". Rocky Mountain News. November 14, 1990. Retrieved 2009-07-05. Arlene White Lawrence, Bishop and former president and general superintendent of the Pillar of Fire Church, died last Wednesday in her home in Belle Mead, N.J. She was 73. ... Burial will be in Fairmount Cemetery. Bishop Lawrence was the granddaughter of Alma White, who founded the Pillar of Fire church in Denver in 1901. Born Nov. 11, 1916, in Zarephath, N.J., Bishop Lawrence divided her youth between New Jersey and ...
  7. ^ "Ray Bridwell White. Pillar of Fire Church Leader, Son of Late Bishop, Dies". The New York Times. November 6, 1946. Retrieved 2008-06-17.
  8. ^ [1] CWGC Cemetery Report, details obtained from casualty record.

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