[Rarebooks] FS: 1902 Gardner Earl Memorial Chapel + Crematorium, Oakwood Cemetery Troy New York
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1902 Gardner Earl Memorial Chapel and Crematorium, Oakwood Cemetery -
Troy, New York
The Gardner Earl Memorial Chapel and Crematorium, Oakwood Cemetery -
Troy, New York - By picture and prose. Printed in Albany by Frederick
S. Hills in 1902. A lovely and sweeping pictorial tour of historic
Oakwood Cemetery and the new crematorium, with laudatory text designed
to make you wish to be either buried or burned there. “Oakwood Cemetery
was established in 1848 in response to the growing rural cemetery
movement in New England and went into service in 1850. The cemetery was
designed by architect John C. Sidney [but] it was superintendent John
Boetcher who gave Oakwood its charm. Boetcher became superintendent in
1871 and continued in the position until 1898. At the beginning of his
tenure, Oakwood was said to be quite crude. During Boetcher's tenure
Oakwood's most important icons were built: the Earl Chapel and
Crematorium, the Warren Chapel Mortuary, the keeper's house, the office
lodge, numerous mausolea, and both the 101st Street and 114th Street
entrances. Boetcher incorporated exceptional landscape design techniques
during his tenure; Oakwood developed shifting landscape scenery: some
areas are dominated by flowing lawns while others comprise dense
foliage. Boetcher brought in rare and foreign plants to help beautify
the cemetery, including umbrella pines and Colorado blue spruce. Oakwood
was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984”
[Wikipedia].
Softcover. 11”x9”, 54 pages, with full-page black & white illustrations,
plus 4 pages of blank crematoria forms. Front cover corner chip, else
minor wear, light soil. [44306] $250
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