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Established in 1838 as one of America’s first rural cemeteries, Green-Wood Cemetery soon developed an international reputation for its magnificent beauty and quickly became the fashionable place to be buried.
Anyone who was anyone wanted to be buried there, so the cemetery is home to the who’s who of New York and Brooklyn celebrities, inventors and historical figures. The beautiful 478 acre park was chartered by the State of New York on April 18, 1838.
Oct 6, 2010 · (OCTOBER 6, 2010 Brooklyn, NY) – Early 20th-century opera signer, Eugenia Farrar – the first person in history to sing over a wireless radio broadcast – was laid to rest this morning during a ceremony at Brooklyn’s Historic Green-Wood Cemetery more than a century after her historic broadcast in 1907 and almost 45 years after her death ...
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Jan 18, 2013 · The driving force behind the establishment of Green-Wood was a small group led by financier and resident of the then-termed “City of Brooklyn,” Henry Evelyn Pierrepont. By the 1860s, the cemetery drew 500,000 visitors a year, second only to Niagara Falls as the most popular attraction in the U.S.
Eugenia Farrar (1875—1966), whose full name was Ada Eugenia Hildegard von Boos Farrar, was a mezzo-soprano singer and philanthropist. She was born in Sweden and lived most of her life in New York City. In the fall of 1907 she gave what is commonly believed to be the first live radio singing performance, when she sang over Lee de Forest's ...
Oct 19, 2011 · It was designed by Richard Upjohn, the architect of Brooklyn Heights’ Grace Church and many other prominent places of worship, and was constructed between 1861 and 1863. Look for the rich details: a double arch, three spires, religious reliefs with a Resurrection theme, and a bell that rings to announce every funeral procession.
Paul Jabara (1948–1992), actor, singer and songwriter; Abraham Jacobi (1830–1919), the Father of American Pediatrics; Leonard Jerome (1817–1891), entrepreneur, grandfather of Winston Churchill; Morris Ketchum Jesup (1830–1908), founder of YMCA New York and president of the American Museum of Natural History
