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Bellefontaine Cemetery is a nonprofit, non-denominational cemetery and arboretum in St. Louis, Missouri. Founded in 1849 as a rural cemetery, Bellefontaine has several architecturally significant monuments and mausoleums such as the Louis Sullivan -designed Wainwright Tomb, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
June 15, 1970. The Wainwright Tomb is a mausoleum located in Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri. Originally constructed for Charlotte Dickson Wainwright in 1892, the tomb also contains the remains of her husband, Ellis Wainwright. The mausoleum was designed by noted Chicago school architect Louis Sullivan, who also designed the ...
A considerable number of unmarked burials remain at the now-decertified cemetery. The article in The St. Louis Republic included rough photos and drawings of the site. [5] This old cemetery is not related to the Bellefontaine Cemetery established in 1849 on the road leading to Fort Belle Fontaine, and initially called the Rural Cemetery. [6]
The tomb was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970, and was designated a St. Louis Landmark in 1971. Today, the tomb is widely regarded as the best mausoleum designed by Sullivan, and is the most architecturally significant structure in historic Bellefontaine Cemetery on the north side of St. Louis.
Calvary Cemetery. Calvary Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery located in St. Louis, Missouri and operated by the Archdiocese of St. Louis. Founded in 1854, it is the second oldest cemetery in the Archdiocese. Calvary Cemetery contains 470 acres (1.9 km 2) of land and more than 300,000 graves, including those of General William Tecumseh ...
Price's funeral was held on October 3, 1867, in St. Louis, at the First Methodist Episcopal Church (on the corner of Eighth and Washington). His body was carried by a black hearse drawn by six matching black horses, and his funeral procession was the largest to take place in St. Louis up to that point. He was buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery. [66]
William D. Becker. Thomas Hart Benton (politician) Thekla M. Bernays. Daniel Bissell (general) Francis Preston Blair Jr. Henry Taylor Blow. Susan Blow. Benjamin Bonneville. Henry Clay Brockmeyer.
Henry Clay Brockmeyer. Henry Clay Brockmeyer (born Heinrich Conrad Brokmeyer, August 12, 1826 near Petershagen, Prussia – July 26, 1906 in St. Louis, Missouri) was a German-American poet, philosopher, and politician. Henry Clay Brockmeyer.