Cedar Hill CemeteryinHartford, Connecticut is located at 453 Fairfield Avenue. It was designed by landscape architect Jacob Weidenmann (1829–1893) who also designed Hartford's Bushnell Park. Its first sections were completed in 1866 and the first burial took place on July 17, 1866. Cedar Hill was designed as an American rural cemetery in the tradition of Mount Auburn CemeteryinCambridge, Massachusetts.[3]
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The Mark Howard monument, one of Cedar Hill's most famous.
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| Location | 453 Fairfield Ave., in Hartford, Wethersfield, and Newington, Connecticut |
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| Coordinates | 41°43′20″N 72°42′12″W / 41.72222°N 72.70333°W / 41.72222; -72.70333 |
| Built | 1865 |
| Architect | multiple, including Weidenmann, Jacob |
| Architectural style | Gothic, Queen Anne, Modern Movement |
| NRHP reference No. | 97000333[1][2] |
| Added to NRHP | April 28, 1997 |
The cemetery straddles three towns. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, in Hartford, Newington, and Wethersfield.[1][4] It includes the Cedar Hill Cemetery Gateway and Chapel, also known as Northam Memorial Chapel and Gallup Memorial Gateway, which is separately listed on the NRHP.[5]
Cedar Hill Cemetery encompasses 270 acres (110 ha) and includes several historic buildings, including the Northam Memorial Chapel (built 1882), which was designed by Hartford architect George Keller, and the Superintendent's Cottage (built 1875), which continues to be occupied by Cedar Hill's Superintendent to this day.[6]
The cemetery is open from 7 a.m. until dusk every day.[7]
Cedar Hill has many unique monuments. One of the most recognizable is the 18-foot (5.5 m) tall pink-granite pyramid, and life-sized angel statue, erected in memory of Mark Howard and his wife, Angelina Lee Howard. Mark Howard was president of the National Fire Insurance Company of Hartford and Connecticut's first internal revenue collector.[8]
John Pierpont Morgan's family monument was designed by architect George W. Keller. Made of red Scottish granite, the monument was designed to portray Morgan's vision of the Ark of the Covenant.[9]
The Porter-Valentine mausoleum features a stained-glass window created by Louis Comfort Tiffany.[citation needed]
More than 30,000 people are buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery, including many notable people such as:[10]
![Angel of the Resurrection atop Colt family monument, sculpted by Randolph Rogers (1864)[16]](http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Colt_Family_Monument_%28Randolph_Rogers%2C_sculptor%29%2C_Cedar_Hill_Cemetery%2C_Hartford%2C_CT_-_February_2016.jpg)
Cedar Hill Cemetery is the final resting place of numerous politicians, industrialists, writers, actors, artists and educators. Below is a listing of some of Cedar Hill's most notable residents.
The Rev. Joseph H. Twichell, who completed thirty years of his pastorate at the Asylum Hill Congregational Church Friday, Dec. 13, in a native of the town of Southington and was graduated from Yale in the class of '58. ...
