Cypress Lawn Memorial Park
Template:Short description Template:Infobox cemetery Cypress Lawn Memorial Park, established by Hamden Holmes Noble in 1892, is a rural cemetery<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> located in Colma, California, a place known as the "City of the Silent".
History
Noble was a Civil War veteran who moved to California in 1865 and was a member of the San Francisco Stock Exchange prior to founding Cypress Lawn.<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett>Template:Cite book</ref>Template:Rp On March 9, 1892, Noble was granted a permit to establish a non-sectarian cemetery<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and plans for Cypress Lawn were made public as work had begun on a mortuary chapel and receiving vault.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> Noble was responsible for the initial layout and landscape architecture of the cemetery.<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp
The prominent castle-like granite entry gate east of El Camino was designed by the B. McDougall architecture firm in San Francisco in 1892, incorporating Mission Revival elements,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and completed in 1893.<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp The site was dedicated on May 28, 1893.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> A crematory also was completed in 1893, housed in a building designed by Albert Pissis and William P. Moore; it was damaged beyond repair during the 1957 San Francisco earthquake and subsequently demolished.<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp
The idea of rural or garden cemeteries (as opposed to city cemeteries) became popular in the mid-19th century in the United States following the founding of Mount Auburn Cemetery, and cities like San Francisco began relocating their badly maintained urban cemeteries to suburban settings.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Between February 1940 until 1945, many of the remains from the Lone Mountain Cemetery complex in San Francisco had been moved to Cypress Lawn Memorial Park and were placed in a mound.<ref name=":1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1993, a memorial obelisk was added to the grassy mound to commemorate those that had been re-interred.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3">Template:Cite news</ref>
The cemetery was among those profiled in the PBS documentary A Cemetery Special (2005) by Rick Sebak.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Site
The original cemetery occupies Template:Cvt east of El Camino Real and west of Hillside Boulevard and is known as the East Campus; the site was expanded by Template:Cvt west of El Camino, acquired in 1901,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> named the West Campus.<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp Lakes were added in the 1920s.<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp In 2006, Cypress Lawn opened the Template:Cvt Hillside Gardens, northeast of the original campus. The Mount Olivet cemetery, founded in 1896 on Template:Cvt adjacent to Hillside Gardens, was acquired by Cypress Lawn in 2020 and renamed Olivet Gardens.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Several structures are on the original (East Campus) site, including the 1892 entrance gate, the Noble Chapel and Crematory, named for the founder and completed in 1894, and the original columbarium, completed in 1895 to a design by Edward Hatherton and T. Paterson Ross. The Lakeside Columbarium, also on the East Campus, was designed by Bernard J. S. Cahill and started in 1927, but construction was suspended in 1930 due to the Great Depression and never resumed.<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp On the West Campus, both the Public Mausoleum and Catacombs (completed 1921) and the Administration Building (1919) were also designed by Cahill.<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Since 2020, an annual Arboretum day is held in November to celebrate the site's trees, some of which were selected and planted by Noble. One of the notable trees on the original campus is a Monterey cypress which was estimated to be planted before 1906.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
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Public Mausoleum (West Campus, 1916)
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Eastern entrance to East Campus, from Hillside Blvd
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Noble Chapel (East Campus, 1894)
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Original columbarium (East Campus, 1895)
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Entrance gate to Hillside Gardens
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Olivet Gardens garden court
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Floral topiary sign and tourist trolleys (West Campus)
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Catacombs and Administration buildings (West Campus)
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Notable burials
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Hearst family mausoleum
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Jennie Roosevelt Pool memorial marked with the Angel of Grief
Cypress Lawn Memorial Park is the final resting site for several members of the celebrated Hearst family, people from the California Gold Rush, plus other prominent citizens from the city of San Francisco and nearby surroundings. By 1992, more than 300,000 had been interred at the site.<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp
Three British Commonwealth service personnel of World War I were buried here, but only one, Lieutenant Norman Travers Simpkin (died 1919), Royal Field Artillery, has a marked grave in the cemetery.<ref name="cwgc1">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Two others, Canadian Army soldiers, are alternatively commemorated on a special memorial in Greenlawn Memorial Park in Colma.<ref name="cwgc2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Template:Compact ToC Template:Div col
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- Isabella Macdonald Alden (1841–1930), writer
- Izora Armstead (1942–2004), singer and member of The Weather Girls
- Gertrude Franklin (Horn) Atherton (1857–1948), author<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp
- Monte Attell (1885–1960), world boxing champion
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- Hubert Howe Bancroft (1832–1918), pre-eminent writer of California history<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp
- Lucius Barker (1928–2020), political scientist
- Lincoln Beachey (1887–1915), aviation pioneer<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- David Colbreth Broderick (1820–1859), U.S. Senator from California; opponent of slavery, considered martyred in a duel by a pro-slavery opponent<ref name=":0" />
- Arthur Brown (1874–1957), prominent San Francisco architect<ref name=":0" />
- Samuel D. Burris (1813–1863), Underground Railroad conductor
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- Dolph Camilli (1907–1997), 1941 National League Baseball Most Valuable Player
- R. C. Chambers (1832–1901), businessperson, politician, owner of the Chambers Mansion in San Francisco<ref name=":32">Template:Cite news</ref>
- John C. Cremony (1815–1879), soldier, author, newsman
- Joseph Paul Cretzer (1911–1946), bank robber and prisoner, died in the escape attempt known as the "Battle of Alcatraz"
- Laura Hope Crews (1879–1942), actress
- William H. Crocker (1861–1937), banker<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp
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- George Washington Dennis (c. 1825–1916), formerly enslaved entrepreneur, real estate developer, and advocate for Black rights<ref name="Obit">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="JohanesenHarry">Template:Cite news</ref>
- Anne McKee Armstrong de Saint Cyr (1864–1925), philanthropist, mother of Princess Miguel of Braganza, Duchess of Viseu
- Jean de Saint Cyr (1875–1966), playboy third husband of Anne McKee Armstrong de Saint Cyr
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- Abby Fisher (Template:Circa–1915), former slave and cookbook author
- Eddie Fisher (1928–2010), entertainer
- James Clair Flood (1826–1889), "Bonanza King"<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp
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- Phineas Gage (1823–1860), noted brain-injury survivor<ref name=":3" />
- Jack Bee Garland (1869–1936), author, transgender man<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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- Andrew Smith Hallidie (1836–1900), first cable car system designer, Inventor<ref name=":3" />
- William H. H. Hart (died 1918), 16th Attorney General of California<ref>Template:Cite newsTemplate:Open access</ref>
- George Hearst (1820–1891), businessman, father of William Randolph Hearst<ref name=":0" />
- Phoebe Hearst (1842–1919), first female Regent of the University of California<ref name=":0" />
- William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951), publishing magnate<ref name=":0" />
- Charles S. Howard (1877–1950), businessman, owner of racehorse Seabiscuit<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp
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- Hiram W. Johnson (1866–1945), statesman, governor<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp
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- Jennie Murray Kemp (1858–1928), temperance leader and writer<ref name="SFExaminer1928">Template:Cite news</ref>
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- Thomas O. Larkin (1802–1858), businessman, signer of the original California Constitution<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp
- Edwin M. Lee (1952–2017), 43rd Mayor of San Francisco
- William Lobb (1809–1864), English botanist and plant collector<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
- Edna Loftus (1891–1916), British actress
- Frederick Low (1828–1894), Congressman, California Governor, statesman<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Willie McCovey (1938–2018), Major League Baseball Hall of Famer
- Euthanasia Sherman Meade (1836–1895), first president of The Woman's Medical Club of California
- Addison Mizner (1872–1933), architect
- Tom Mooney (1882–1942), Wobblie, political prisoner<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp
- William W. Morrow (1843–1929), U.S. Congressman, American Red Cross incorporator
- James Murdock (1931–1981), American film and television actor<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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- James Van Ness (1808–1872), 7th Mayor of San Francisco
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- Lefty O'Doul (1897–1969), Major League Baseball player<ref name=":0" />
- Betty Ong (1956–2001), 9/11 victim<ref name=":0" />
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- Orrin Peck (1860–1921), painter<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
- Joel Samuel Polack (1807–1882), trader, land speculator, writer and artist in pre-colonial New Zealand<ref name="DNZB Polack">Template:DNZB</ref>
- Grace Gimmini Potts (1886–1956), author and director of pageants<ref name="Binheim">Template:Cite bookTemplate:PD-notice</ref>
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- Alvino Rey (1908–1980), jazz guitarist and bandleader<ref>Connections in Swing</ref>
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- Calvin E. Simmons (1950–1982), musical prodigy, conductor, musician<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp
- Jack Spicer (1925–1965), poet
- Adolph B. Spreckels (1857-1924), industrialist<ref name="clhm-spreckels">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Alma de Bretteville Spreckels (1881-1968), philanthropist<ref name="clhm-spreckels"/>
- Claus Spreckels (1828-1908), industrialist<ref name="clhm-spreckels"/>
- Lincoln Steffens (1866–1936), McClure's magazine writer, muckraking journalist<ref name=Svanevik-Burgett/>Template:Rp
- Charlie Sweeney (1863–1902), Major League Baseball player
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- David S. Terry (1823–1889), American judge of the California Supreme Court and politician<ref name=":3" />
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- Walter Varney (1888–1967), Founder of predecessors of United and Continental Airlines