Lake View Cemetery

NY 19, Brockport, New York. County/parish: Monroe.

Added to the National Register of Historic Places July 24, 2009. NRIS 09000559.

1 contributing building. 1 contributing site. 1 contributing object.

From Wikipedia:

Lake View Cemetery (Brockport, New York)

Lake View Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery in the town of Sweden, near Brockport in Monroe County, New York. The cemetery was established in 1891. It includes a Romanesque Revival style chapel / receiving vault, a small pond, a cast iron tiered fountain, and a distinctive serpentine road system. The cemetery has more than 5,000 burials. Among the noted burials are actress Nancy Coleman (1912–2000) and US Congressmen Henry W. Seymour (1834–1906) & Richard C. Shannon (1839–1920).

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

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National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75318860