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Spring Grove Cemetery Historic District

4521 Spring Grove Avenue / Spring Grove Cemetery (Winton Place and College Hill)

  • National Register of Historic Places – Listed May 13, 1976 (No. 76001440)

Significance:  Spring Grove Cemetery was established in 1845 and remains an active cemetery today. It consists of 733 acres of which 387 acres are beautifully landscaped and maintained. The concept of a “lawn plan” cemetery was created here, with the premise of establishing a pictorial union between architecture, sculpture, and landscape gardening. Among the notable architectural and sculptural monuments is the Spring Grove Cemetery Chapel, an outstanding example of Carolingian Romanesque architecture, was listed individually in the National Register in 1980.

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