940 Comstock Ave., Syracuse, New York. County/parish: Onondaga.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places May 09, 1991. NRIS 91000522.
4 contributing buildings. 1 contributing site. 21 contributing structures. 60 contributing objects.Oakwood Cemetery is a 160-acre (65 ha) historic cemetery located in Syracuse, New York. It was designed by Howard Daniels and built in 1859. Oakwood Cemetery was created during a time period in the nineteenth century when the rural cemetery was becoming a distinct landscape type, and is a good example of this kind of landscape architecture.
The original 92 acres (37 ha) included about 60 acres (24 ha) of dense oak forest with pine, ash, hickory and maple. A crew of 60 laborers without large-scale earth moving equipment thinned and grouped the trees; today there are many 150-year-old specimens. Students of SUNY-ESF and Syracuse University, whose campuses are adjacent to Oakwood, can regularly be seen in the cemetery for instruction on plant species, capturing insect specimens, cemetery studies, or mammal surveys.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75320406