Historic rural cemetery in Hamilton County, Ohio
United States historic place
Spring Grove Cemetery
The Gothic Revival Dexter Memorial at Spring Grove Cemetery & Arboretum
Show map of the United States Location Cincinnati , OhioBuilt 1845 Architect Adolph Strauch et al. Architectural style Gothic Revival NRHP reference No. 76001440 [ 1] Significant dates Added to NRHP May 13, 1976 Designated NHLD March 29, 2007
Spring Grove Cemetery and Arboretum is anonprofit rural cemetery andarboretum located at 4521 Spring Grove Avenue,Cincinnati , Ohio, United States. At a size of 733 acres (2.97 km2), it is the third largest cemetery in the United States, after theCalverton National Cemetery andAbraham Lincoln National Cemetery .[ 2] National Historic Landmark due to its age, architecture, and notable burials.
The cemetery dates from 1844, when members of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society formed a cemetery association. They took their inspiration from contemporary rural cemeteries such asPère Lachaise Cemetery inParis , andMount Auburn Cemetery inCambridge ,Massachusetts .[ 3] [ 4] Salmon P. Chase and others prepared the Articles of Incorporation. The cemetery was designed by Howard Daniels[ 5]
In 1855,Adolph Strauch , a renownedlandscape architect , was hired to beautify the grounds.[ 6] [ 7] [ 8] Frederick Law Olmsted and the French landscape architectEdouard André .[ 9] National Historic Landmark .[ 10] Spring Grove Cemetery Chapel is listed separately on the National Register of Historic Places.
On October 23, 2013, cemetery staff removed a large and potentially disturbingSpongeBob SquarePants Kimberly Walker and another for her still-living sister a day after her funeral. The family believed they had permission from a worker, who management said had erred.[ 11] [ 12]
Spring Grove encompasses 733 acres (2.97 km2 ) of which 400 acres (1.6 km2 ) are currently landscaped and maintained. Its grounds include 12 ponds,[ 13] Gothic Revival architecture .
As of 2005, its National Champion trees wereCladrastis kentukeaHalesia dipteraAbies cilicicaAbies koreanaCedrus libaniChionanthus virginicusEucommia ulmoidesHalesia parvifoliaMetasequoia glyptostroboidesPhellodendron amurensePicea orientalisPicea politaPinus flexilisPinus griffithiPinus monticolaQuercus cerrisQuercus nigraTaxodium distichumUlmus serotinaZelkova serrata
See alsoCategory:Burials at Spring Grove Cemetery .
Weeping statue at Spring Grove Cemetery Grave ofSalmon P. Chase at Spring Grove Cemetery Jacob Ammen ,Civil War general[ 14] Nicholas Longworth Anderson , Civil War colonel[ 14] Joshua Hall Bates , Civil War general[ 14] Richard M. Bishop , Cincinnati Mayor and Ohio Governor[ 15] George K. Brady ,United States Army officer. Brieflycommander of the Department of Alaska Emma Lucy Braun , botanist[ 16] Charles Elwood Brown , Civil Warbrevet brigadier general and U.S. Representative[ 14] Sidney Burbank , Civil War colonel[ 14] Jacob Burnet , US Senator[ 17] Samuel Fenton Cary ,Congressman ,prohibitionist [ 18] Kate Chase , daughter of Salmon Chase and Washington, D.C. Civil War socialite[citation needed Salmon P. Chase ,Chief Justice of the United States [ 19] Henry M. Cist , Civil War brevet brigadier general[ 14] Levi Coffin ,Quaker abolitionist [ 20] George B. Cox , Cincinnati political boss and associate ofWilliam Howard Taft Rich Dauer , professional baseball playerArthur F. Devereux ,Brevet Brigadier General during the Civil War; fromSalem, Massachusetts [ 14] Daniel Drake , physician and writer[ 21] Charles L. Fleischmann ,yeast manufacturer[citation needed Joseph Benson Foraker ,Governor of Ohio ,U.S. Senator , Judge,American Civil War CaptainManning Force , Civil War Brevet Brigadier General,Medal of Honor recipient[ 14] George Benson Fox , Civil War officer,75th Ohio Infantry , manufacturer, Ohio General AssemblyA swan off the shore of Geyser Lake, one of the small bodies of water located within the cemetery. James Gamble , co-founder ofProcter & Gamble Company [ 22] Kenner Garrard , Civil War general[ 14] Nikki Giovanni , American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator.[ 23] Heinie Groh ,Cincinnati Reds Hall of Fame third baseman[ 24] Theodore Sommers Henderson ,Bishop of theMethodist Episcopal Church [citation needed Andrew Hickenlooper , Civil War general[ 14] Joseph Hooker , Civil War general and commander of theArmy of the Potomac at theBattle of Chancellorsville [ 19] Waite Hoyt , professional baseball player; Hall of Fame pitcher[ 25] Miller Huggins , Hall of Fame baseball manager ofNew York Yankees duringBabe Ruth era[ 25] Isaac M. Jordan , one of the seven founders ofSigma Chi fraternity[ 26] John William Kilbreth , U.S. Army brigadier general during World War I[ 27] Bernard Kroger , founder ofKroger supermarkets[ 22] Alexander Long ,Congressman Nicholas Longworth , Father of American grape cultureJoseph Longworth , art collector and patron, son of Nicholas LongworthNicholas Longworth , politician, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, grandson of Nicholas LongworthWilliam Haines Lytle , 19th century Ohio, general, politician, poetJoseph Mason , artist, who was an uncredited assistant toJohn James Audubon in illustratingthe Birds of America Stanley Matthews ,Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Alexander McDowell McCook ,Union army generalCharles Pettit McIlvaine , Episcopal bishop, author, educator and twice Chaplain of the United States SenateJohn McLean ,Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court Thomas Satterwhite Noble , painter[ 28] Dave Parker , professional baseball playerGeorge Hunt Pendleton , Congressman and USSenator Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt , poetThomas C. Powell (1865–1945), railroad executive and member of the War Industries Board[ 29] William Procter , co-founder ofProcter and Gamble [ 22] Skip Prosser ,Wake Forest University men'sbasketball head coach at the time of his death, former assistant and head men's basketball coach atXavier University Tony Scott , professional baseball playerHenry Stanbery ,Attorney General of the United States Adolph Strauch , landscape architect, designer of Spring Grove CemeteryDudley Sutphin , Cincinnati attorney, judge andFrench Legion of Honor medal winnerAlphonso Taft , politician, father ofPresident of the United States William Howard Taft Charles Phelps Taft II , Mayor of Cincinnati and son of President William Howard TaftLouise Taft , second wife of Alphonso Taft and mother of William Howard TaftMary Lee Tate , painter and teacher[ 30] John Morgan Walden ,Bishop of theMethodist Episcopal Church Godfrey Weitzel , Civil War generalFrances Wright , pioneeringfeminist , abolitionist, andfreethinker ^ "National Register Information System" .National Register of Historic Places National Park Service . 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April 13, 2007.Archived from the original on November 3, 2013. RetrievedMarch 11, 2015 .^ "Ms Walker's family are furious with the graveyard's U-turn after paying $13,000 (£8,000) for the headstone and getting copyright approval from Nickelodeon" . Metro.co.uk. October 23, 2013.Archived from the original on June 15, 2018. RetrievedOctober 24, 2013 .^ "Family, cemetery reinstall SpongeBob headstones but with changes" . Cincinnati: Hearst Television Inc. February 14, 2014.Archived from the original on September 3, 2016. RetrievedJuly 17, 2014 .^ Rolfes, Steven (2012).Cincinnati Landmarks ISBN 9780738593951 Archived from the original on November 26, 2023. RetrievedMay 19, 2013 . ^a b c d e f g h i j "Judge Civil War Generals" (PDF) . The Spring Grove Family. Archived fromthe original (PDF) on May 29, 2015. RetrievedJuly 17, 2014 .^ "Visit to Bishop Grave – Spring Grove Cemetery" . May 17, 2022.Archived from the original on November 26, 2023. RetrievedMay 17, 2022 .^ Stuckey, Ronald L. 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