5600 N. Ravenswood Ave., Chicago, Illinois. County/parish: Cook.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places April 24, 1975. NRIS 75000651.
1 contributing building. 1 contributing site.
Rosehill Cemetery (founded 1859) is a historic rural cemetery on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois in the United States. At 350 acres (1.4 km2), it is the largest cemetery in the city of Chicago and its first private cemetery. The Entrance Gate and Administration Building, designed by William W. Boyington in the castellated Gothic style was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. Rosehill Mausoleum, also known as the Community Mausoleum, was built in 1914. It is the largest mausoleum in Chicago and features several stained glass windows by Louis Comfort Tiffany. The Horatio N. May Chapel, completed in 1899, was designed in the English Gothic style by architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee. Rosehill is the final resting place of many notable individuals, including 16 Union Civil War generals, Chicago politicians, business leaders, artists, athletes, and a Vice President of the United States. Well-known names such as Oscar Mayer, Montgomery Ward and Richard Sears are interred at the cemetery. Notable monuments include several Civil War memorials and the Volunteer Firefighters' Monument. As of 2021, the cemetery has over 190,000 interments.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/28892164