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Green-Wood Cemetery Tour

GOOGLE MAP - SLIDE #) DESCR [word count]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  1) Green-Wood Cemetery Map [27]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  2) Green-Wood - Gothic Revival Entrance Gates [230]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  3) Relief 'Weep Not' by John M. Moffitt [33]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  4) 'Faith' Relief Sculpture [80]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  5) Relief 'The Dead Shall Be Raised' by John M. Moffitt [67]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  6) 'Hope' sculpted by John M. Moffitt. [18]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  7) Gothic Revival Entrance Gates - Cemetery Side [91]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  8) Gate Relief Sculpture 'I Am the Resurrection and the Life.' [29]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  9) Gate Relief Sculpture 'Weep Not' [25]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  10) Memory' & 'Love' by John M. Moffitt [28]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  11) Chapel [34]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  12) Joseph A Perry Grave [168]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  13) David Stewart Tomb [73]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  14) Stewart Angel [43]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  15) Stewart Angel [40]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  16) William Wheatley - Actor [112]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  17) John Anderson - Tobacconist - Tomb [112]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  18) John Anderson [184]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  19) Frederick Siefke [61]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  20) Parsons – Van Ness Pyramid [103]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  21) John Mackay - Silver Miner [233]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  22) Piltot's Monument [206]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  23) Thomas Clark Durant [333]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  24) Soldiers Monument - Civil War - 'ITS HEROIC DEAD,' [80]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  25) Soldiers Monument - Union & Confederate forces [27]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  26) Soldiers Monument - Infantryman [96]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  27) Soldiers Monument - Infantryman - Artilleryman [26]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  28) Soldiers Monument Artilleryman - 'Artillerman's Vision' by Walt Whitman [504]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  29) Soldiers Monument [38]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  30) Soldiers Monument - Cavalryman [88]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  31) Soldiers Monument - Cavalryman [25]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  32) Soldiers Monument - Engineer [18]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  33) Soldiers Monument [114]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  34) Minerva & Altar to Liberty - Revolutionary War Battle of Long Island [130]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  35) Minerva & Altar to Liberty [164]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  36) Edwin Clark Litchfield Tomb [197]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  37) Grace Denio Litchfield [144]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  38) Imre Kiralfy the Producer [188]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  39) David R. Burbank [205]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  40) David R. Burbank [157]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  41) Horace Greeley [24]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  42) De Robigne Mortimer Bennett - 'Freethinker' [249]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  43) Elias Howe Jr. - Sewing Machine [285]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  44) Princess Do Hum Me - Sac Indian [227]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  45) Barney Williams [107]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  46) Colonel Abraham S. Vosburgh [121]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  47) Pilot's Monument - 'John Minturn' [68]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  48) Pilot's Monument [644]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  49) George Struthers - the Mexican War [116]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  50) Gordon Webster Burnham [9]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  51) Charles T. Yerkes [347]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  52) Stephen Whitney - a chapel for visitors [162]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  53) John M. Bradstreet - Dun & Bradstreet [85]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  54) John La Farge artist [23]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  55) Henry Bergh - ASPCA [434]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  56) Charles Feltman - 'sold to the masses and lived with the classes' [230]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  57) William J. Chin - Fireman [43]
View Google Maps for this location (in new window)  58) William Holbrook Beard painter [150]

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Parsons – Van Ness Pyramid -- Green-Wood Cemetery, New York City, New York
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Green-Wood Cemetery - New York City, New York
Parsons – Van Ness Pyramid



The Parsons - Van Ness pyramid is an Egyptian Revival tomb. Napoleon conquered Egypt in 1798, and his book 'Description de L'Egypte' made this form of architecture popular for cemetery tombs. The Egyptian Revival style was widely criticized as unChristian however. As if to anticipate critics, Albert Ross Parsons stationed a neo-classical sculpture of Mary with the Christ Child and a sculpture of an adult Christ holding a lamb outside his tomb. Parsons was a music teacher who played organ for Trinity Church and Fifth Avenue Presbyterian. He also taught music at the Metropolitan Conservatory of Music.











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