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74-587: Discussions to form the company were held at The Lambs , a famous theater club where Charles and Daniel Frohman were members. The company advertised "Famous Players in Famous Plays" and its first release was the French film Les Amours de la reine Élisabeth (1912) starring Sarah Bernhardt and Lou Tellegen . Its first actual production was The Count of Monte Cristo (1912, released 1913), directed by Joseph A. Golden and Edwin S. Porter and starring James O'Neill ,

148-412: A Brooklyn social leader. As early as 1832, Pierrepont was considering constructing such a cemetery on a hilly area to the east of Gowanus Bay . Acts of incorporation for "The Greenwood Cemetery" were passed on April 18, 1838, entitling the corporation to a capital of $ 300,000 and the right to 200 acres (81 ha) of land. David Bates Douglass , Green-Wood's landscape architect, started working on

222-523: A Deal . It is one of the oldest studios in Hollywood. This article about an American film distributor or production company is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . The Lambs The Lambs, Inc. (also known as The Lambs Club ) is a social club in New York City for actors, songwriters, and others involved in the theatre. It is America's oldest theatrical organization. "The Lambs"

296-510: A New Yorker asked the difference between the Lambs, Friars, and Players, since the membership was, at the time, predominantly from Broadway." It was left to "a wit believed to have been George S. Kaufman " to draw the distinction: "The Players are gentlemen trying to be actors, the Lambs are actors trying to be gentlemen, and the Friars are neither trying to be both." Its members have been instrumental in

370-426: A brownstone building. It is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story structure with an entrance located inside a center bay on the west side of the building. The visitor's lounge contains two side bays, each with a porch , as well as restrooms for men and women. The hip roof is made of gray slate with metal ornamentation along the ridge at the top. The roof slopes down toward the perimeter walls of the building, though each of

444-1052: A cemetery in a naturalistic park-like landscape in the English manner was first established. It has been called "Brooklyn's first public park by default long before Prospect Park was created." The architecture critic Paul Goldberger was quoted in The New York Times in 1977, saying, "it is the ambition of the New Yorker to live upon the Fifth Avenue, to take his airings in the [Central] Park , and to sleep with his fathers in Green-wood". Green-Wood Cemetery contains 600,000 graves and 7,000 trees spread out over 478 acres (193 ha). The landscape includes rolling hills and dales, several ponds, and an on-site chapel. In 2017, it received 280,000 visitors. Though at one point there were numerous gravediggers at Green-Wood, as of 2006 there were just

518-469: A common grave at Green-Wood Cemetery. An obelisk near the main entrance marks the burial site. Green-Wood has remained non-sectarian, but was generally considered a Christian burial place for white Anglo-Saxon Protestants of good repute. One early regulation was that no one executed for a crime, or even dying in jail, could be buried there. However, the family of infamous political leader "Boss" Tweed managed to circumvent this rule even though he died in

592-456: A few gravediggers due to a decrease in the number of burials, as well as the limited amount of space for new burials. Because of this shortage of space, several family members may be buried atop each other in some plots. Several wooden shelters were also built, including one in a Gothic Revival style, one resembling an Italian villa, and another resembling a Swiss chalet . These shelters, designed by Richard Upjohn , had largely deteriorated by

666-615: A listing of its past and current members. The president of The Lambs is called "The Shepherd". The Club displays the portraits of all its presidents, painted by artists such as James Montgomery Flagg and Everett Raymond Kinstler . The Lambs has had many Manhattan homes since 1874, beginning with Delmonico's Restaurant in Union Square . Then in 1875 they met at the Maison Doree on the south side of 14th St. opposite Union Square; 1876–77 next to Wallack's theater at 848 Broadway; 1877–78 at

740-555: A monument of gynecologist J. Marion Sims by Ferdinand Freiherr von Miller , is also installed in Green-Wood; the statue was formerly in Bryant Park and Central Park but was removed from the latter in 2017. Some elaborate monuments honor notable figures, such as William Niblo 's Grand Gothic mausoleum, the Steinway & Sons family's Classical mausoleum, Abiel Abbot Low 's tomb, and

814-432: A permanent stone fence were built through the late 1870s. The cemetery was enlarged again in 1884 to 474 acres (192 ha) via the acquisition of land on the northern border. To prevent the view being marred by the construction of tenements, Green-Wood also purchased lots on the southwest corner. By the 1890s, a reservoir was added atop Mt. Washington, the highest point in the cemetery, while two ponds had been removed. At

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888-414: Is 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 stories, while the two pavilions to the west and east are 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 stories. The residence's main entrance is through the eastern pavilion, while there is another pavilion on the western facade. Both pavilions have hip roofs of gray slate, and the second floor contains dormers with windows that project from the hip roof. The central "tower" section contains entrances to both

962-458: Is a registered trademark of The Lambs, Inc.; and the club has been commonly referred to as The Lambs Club and The Lambs Theater since 1874. The club's name honors the essayist Charles Lamb and his sister Mary , who during the early 19th century played host to actors and literati at their famed salon in London. In 1874 New York theatrical life was centered around Union Square. Wallack's Theatre

1036-515: Is in the Beaux-Arts style. It is made of limestone , and consists of multiple towers, including a central octagonal tower and four octagonal turrets , one at each corner. The three-story chapel contains a ground level, clerestory level, and the second story in the central tower. It was patterned after the Tom Tower at Christ Church, Oxford . Plans for the Green-Wood chapel date to shortly after

1110-409: Is located at Fort Hamilton Parkway and Macieli Place. Similar to the 25th Street gate, it is made of a double gateway made of brownstone . It is also flanked by two structures, a visitor's lounge and the gatekeeper's residence. The gate was built in 1876 and completed the next year; it was designated as an official New York City landmark in 2016. To the east of the entrance is the visitor's lounge,

1184-526: Is to one side of the gate, while the chapel and reception room are on the opposite side. A descendant colony of monk parakeets that are believed to have escaped their containers while in transit now nests in the spires of the gate, as well as other areas in Brooklyn. The New York Community Trust placed a Designated Landmarks of New York plaque on the gate in 1958, and the gate was designated an official New York City landmark in 1966. The Fort Hamilton gate

1258-474: The 36th Street station of the New York City Subway , serving the D ​, ​ N ​, and ​ R trains. These gates were developed from the 1840s to the 1860s. A fifth gate at Ninth Avenue and 37th Street no longer exists. The main entrance to the cemetery, a double-gate located at 25th Street and Fifth Avenue near its northwestern corner, was built in 1861–65, though

1332-713: The Battle of Long Island on August 27, 1776. A Revolutionary War monument by Frederick Ruckstull , Altar to Liberty: Minerva , was erected there in 1920. From this height, the bronze Minerva statue gazes towards the Statue of Liberty across New York Harbor. Green-Wood was less inspired by Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris, which at the time retained the primarily axial formality of Alexandre Théodore Brongniart 's original design, than by Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts , where

1406-501: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission , three from World War I and three from World War II. There are other notable burials like the economist Henry George ; Charles Ebbets ; artist Jean-Michel Basquiat , conductor Leonard Bernstein ; rapper Bashar Barakah "Pop Smoke" Jackson ; physician J. Marion Sims ; poets Phoebe Cary and Alice Cary ; and actor Frank Morgan . The gates of the cemetery were designated

1480-713: The Earl Carroll Theatre . Historically, The Lambs has been the spawning ground of plays, friendships and partnerships. Mark Twain Tonight (with Hal Holbrook ) and Stalag 17 were first performed at The Lambs before their national successes. Alan J. Lerner and Frederick Loewe first met at The Lambs, often trying works-in-progress on their fellow Lambs. Loewe left a percentage of his share of Brigadoon royalties to The Lambs' Foundation. The Lambs, Friars , and Players often are confused. In 1964, long-time syndicated columnist Earl Wilson put it this way: "Long ago

1554-464: The Ludlow Street Jail . The cemetery's chapel was completed in 1913 by Warren and Wetmore, on the site of Arbor Water. By 1916, the cemetery had 325,000 burials. Modifications to Green-Wood's landscape continued through the 20th century. In 1915, the entrance at 20th Street was realigned to connect with 9th Avenue/Prospect Park West (the entrance there being completed in 1926), and another pond

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1628-609: The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission at various times. Green-Wood's site is characterized by varied topography created by glacial moraines , particularly the Harbor Hill Moraine . Battle Hill , also known as Gowan's Heights, the highest point in Brooklyn , is on cemetery grounds, rising approximately 216 feet (66 m) above sea level. It was the site of an important action during

1702-550: The Wall Street crash of 1929 . The club would move twelve times during its 150 years. In 1974 it ended gender discrimination and admitted women as full members; the first was Cornelia Otis Skinner , daughter of Lamb Otis Skinner . For fifty years the club has had quarters at 3 West 51st Street. The Actors' strike of 1919 was settled in The Lambs, which was referred to as "Local One." In 1924, it celebrated its 50-year anniversary at

1776-530: The "Soldiers' Lot" for free veterans' burials; this lot included less than 1 acre (0.40 ha) of land. In 1868–1876, after the war ended, the 35-foot-tall (11 m) Civil War Soldiers' Monument was erected at the highest point in Green-Wood. Other monuments of note include the Pilots' Monument and the Sea Captain's Monument, each dedicated to a notable person in these respective professions. J. Marion Sims ,

1850-525: The 1850s, various fauna were being introduced to the cemetery. As early as the 1840s, the cemetery had 30,000 visitors per season during the spring and fall; the visitors took horse-drawn carriages or ferries to the cemetery. To accommodate those who came to the cemetery, a ferry service to the cemetery was established in 1846. The burial ground was expanded multiple times. Originally 175 acres were enclosed, stretching between 21st and 37th Streets from 5th to 9th Avenue. The first additional acquisition in 1847

1924-448: The 1870s, including Border Water, Dell Water, Crescent Water, Dale Water, and Meadow Water. At first, 14-by-27-foot (4.3 by 8.2 m) lots were being sold for $ 100 apiece, and it soon became a frequent place for burials, with 7,000 annual burials and 100,000 graves by the 1860s. Green-Wood became more popular after former governor DeWitt Clinton was disinterred from a cemetery in Albany ,

1998-527: The 1970s, vandalism was common at Green-Wood Cemetery. The cemetery was also affected by labor strikes among the gravediggers in 1966, 1973, and 1982. The cemetery also continued to add new structures: the Garden Mausoleum and Community Mausoleum were finished in the late 1980s, and the Hillside Mausoleum was expanded. In addition, in 1994, the north gate was restored and new offices were built. This

2072-606: The Cincinnati , signage in the Battle Hill area of the cemetery was updated to reflect new research on Battle Hill's importance in the Battle of Brooklyn. Green-Wood Cemetery's interments include a considerable number of notable people, including painter George Catlin , designer Louis Comfort Tiffany , painter Asher B. Durand , printmakers Nathaniel Currier and James Ives , and architects James Renwick Jr. and Richard Upjohn are among

2146-701: The Club expanded. On 10 May 1877 the Club incorporated under the laws of the State of New York. There were 60 members. On 11 August 1878 the Club suffered its first great loss, the death of Shepherd Henry J. Montague in San Francisco. Broadway impresario J. Lester Wallack–who would go on to serve seven terms as Shepherd–gave Montague a space in his family plot in Green-Wood Cemetery ; the two rest next to each other today. In April 1880 The Lambs moved to 34 West 26th Street,

2220-707: The Lispenard family's Norman-style mausoleum. Numerous other monuments to notable figures exist but are extremely simple in design, such as the tombs of Samuel Morse , William M. Tweed , Lola Montez , Henry Ward Beecher , and Currier and Ives . On the other hand, several monuments commemorate less well-known figures, including a Gothic memorial for 17-year-old Charlotte Canda, and a High Victorian pier designed by William or Edward Potter for their relatives. The gates were designed by Richard Upjohn in Gothic Revival style. There are four gates in total. Two are city landmarks:

2294-471: The New York state capital, and moved to Green-Wood, where a monument to him was erected in 1853. By the early 1860s it was drawing annual crowds second in size only to Niagara Falls . Numerous guides to the cemetery were published for these visitors, including an illustrated guidebook and a directory in the late 1840s, as well as a cemetery history and a handbook in the late 1860s. By the 1860s, Prospect Park

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2368-642: The Union Square Hotel, 6 Union Square; 1879 within a brownstone at 19 East 16th St.; 1880–91 at a Brownstone at 34 West 26th St.; 1891 at the Gilsey House, 1200 Broadway; 1892 at 8 West 29th St.; 1893–96 at 26 West 31st St.; 1897–1905 at 70 West 36th St., what was formerly and thereafter Keen's Chophouse remodeled by Stanford White to be a clubhouse. In 1905, the club moved to 128–130 West 44th Street, designed by Stanford White and doubled in size in 1915. The club remained at 44th Street until 1975, when it lost

2442-460: The artists interred in the cemetery. In addition, public leaders William M. Tweed , Henry Ward Beecher , Horace Greeley , William Oland Bourne , and DeWitt Clinton ; businessmen Edward R. Squibb , William Colgate , Frederick August Otto Schwarz , and Charles Pfizer ; and railroad promoter Thomas C. Durant are buried in the cemetery. Among the burials at the cemetery are six British Commonwealth service personnel whose graves are registered by

2516-588: The building into the Chatwal New York hotel. The Chatwal Hotel contains the Lambs Club restaurant although there is no relation between the hotel and The Lambs. Since 1976, The Lambs' Clubhouse has been leased space at 3 West 51st St., adjacent to Rockefeller Center . The Lambs has elected more than 6,700 members over the decades, counting actors and theater owners, playwrights and painters, singers and sculptors, and today’s podcasters and comedy writers. Over

2590-676: The building to foreclosure. It was purchased from a bank by the Church of the Nazarene , which leased part of the building for what would become the Off Broadway Lamb's Theatre . The building was designated a New York City Landmark in September 1974 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 3, 1982. The church sold the building in 2006 to Hampshire Hotels, which renovated

2664-432: The cemetery was purchased in 1863, allowing the commissioners to straighten out that border. This era was also associated with the construction of other structures. A receiving tomb was installed in 1853, and around the same time, the ponds were cleaned and landscaped. In addition, several gates to the cemetery were added. The main gate at 5th Avenue and 25th Street was built in 1861–65, followed by other entrances near

2738-433: The cemetery's natural landscaping intact. Much of Douglass's plan is still in place with its original plantings and curving-road systems. The original street names and original cast-iron perimeter fence have been retained, but many of the roads have been paved. The cemetery has been expanded several times. Most of these regions have been landscaped to resemble the original plot, except the area near Fort Hamilton Avenue to

2812-415: The cemetery's service yard; at 9th Avenue and 20th Street; and at 9th Avenue and 37th Street (later removed). In addition, a gatekeeper's house was installed at the original southern entrance in 1848, the "Thirty Vaults" catacombs in 1854, and a well house in 1855. Furthermore, the paths were paved in the 1860s to allow for easier transport within the cemetery. Several additional ponds were carved out through

2886-538: The chapel was officially opened in June 1913. The chapel was made a city landmark in 2016. Following the founding of Mount Auburn Cemetery in Massachusetts in 1831, the leaders of New York City and the then-independent city of Brooklyn began discussing locations for a cemetery of their own. At the time, over 10,000 people were being buried per year in the two cities. The cemetery was the idea of Henry Evelyn Pierrepont,

2960-404: The chapel's establishment, when a "Chapel Hill" was set aside within the cemetery. Though Richard Upjohn submitted plans for such a chapel in 1855, Green-Wood initially voted against such a chapel. A new location was selected near Arbor Water in the first decade of the 20th century, and plans were solicited from three firms in 1909. After Warren and Wetmore were selected, work started in 1911, and

3034-526: The city's biggest names including Marguerite Clark , Hazel Dawn , and H. B. Warner . The company also featured cinema's biggest star of the era, Mary Pickford , and presented theater idol John Barrymore in his first two feature films. The company produced both short and feature-length productions. In 1916, the company merged with the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play Company to form Famous Players–Lasky Corporation , which later became Paramount Pictures . In 1915,

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3108-454: The company established Famous Players Fiction Studios at 5300 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood . The new studio's first film starred Mary Pickford . The studio later became Clune Studio , then California Studio, then Gross -Krasne , followed by Producers Studios Inc., and is now known as Raleigh Studios . Raleigh Studios is known for being the site of Gunsmoke, Perry Mason, and Let's Make

3182-511: The decades it was at The Lambs that hit shows and songs were launched, partnerships and friendships formed, and bonds of fellowship made. The Lambs is also a historical society, preserving and promoting entertainment history stretching back to the 19th century. The club’s art collection of oil paintings, theatrical memorabilia, and playbills, together with a private research library, is a museum of American entertainment history. The Lambs are currently digitizing its collection to make it available to

3256-595: The entrance itself opened in 1862. It is composed of Belleville, New Jersey brownstone. The sculptured groups on Nova Scotia limestone panels depicting biblical scenes of death and resurrection from the New Testament including Lazarus , The Widow's Son , and Jesus' Resurrection over the gateways are the work of sculptor John M. Moffitt. In between the two gateways is a clock tower in the Flamboyant style. The tower measures 106 feet (32 m) tall. A cemetery office

3330-609: The families of New York soldiers who died in war. In 1868, work started on the installation of the Civil War Soldiers' Monument at the highest point in Green-Wood to commemorate hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who fought in the war. The monument was not dedicated until 1876. On December 5, 1876, the Brooklyn Theater Fire claimed the lives of at least 278 individuals, with some accounts reporting over 300 dead. Out of that total, 103 unidentified victims were interred in

3404-490: The father of dramatist Eugene O'Neill . In 1914, the company purchased the former headquarters of New York City's Ninth Mounted Cavalry unit at 221 West 26th Street in Manhattan . The cavernous brick building made excellent filming space for Zukor, and the modernized site is still used today as Chelsea Television Studios . Hiring its performers straight from the New York City stage, Famous Players had an early roster of some of

3478-597: The first monuments was a statue of DeWitt Clinton , built in 1853. There is also a memorial erected by James Brown, president of both Brown Brothers bank and the Collins Line , to the six members of his family lost in the SS ; Arctic disaster of 1854. This incorporates a sculpture of the ship, half-submerged by the waves, as well as a Civil War Memorial. During the American Civil War , Green-Wood Cemetery created

3552-562: The first time under “a roof controlled by the Club.” It would be the Clubhouse for 12 years. It was a period of “prosperity, joy, sorrow and calamity.” In this era The Lambs entertained Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman , newspaper editor Charles A. Dana , and English actor Sir Henry Irving . The Actors’ Fund of America (today the Entertainment Community Fund ) was formed by Lambs in 1882 at Wallack's Theatre and J. Lester Wallack

3626-1020: The formation of ASCAP , Actors' Equity and The Actors' Fund of America , Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and in the merger that created SAG-AFTRA . Of the first 21 council members of Actors' Equity, 20 were members of The Lambs. The meetings to form Actors' Equity were held at The Players, a club similar to The Lambs, because there were too many producer members of The Lambs. Since its founding, there have been more than 6,700 Lambs, including: Fred Astaire , Irving Berlin , Henry Blossom , Sid Caesar , James Cagney , Eddie Cantor , George M. Cohan , Cecil B. DeMille , W.C. Fields , Albert Hague , Mark Hart , Silvio Hein , Ken Howard , Al Jolson , John F. Madden , Conrad Nagel , Eugene O'Neill , Donald Pippin , Joyce Randolph Cliff Robertson , Edward G. Robinson , Will Rogers , John Philip Sousa , Spencer Tracy , Abe Vigoda , Fred Waring , and Jack Whiting . Current honorary members include Matthew Broderick and Jim Dale . The Lambs' website contains

3700-399: The four sides of the roof is punctuated by dormers with small windows. The corner porches feature stone banisters, and contain four yellow sandstone bas-reliefs sculpted by Moffitt. The west side of the entrance, also a brownstone structure, contains the gatekeeper's residence, a 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 -story structure that is similar in design to the visitor's lounge. Only the center section

3774-528: The gates. One such structure was the Weir Greenhouse , located across from the 25th Street entrance; that building is now both a National Register of Historic Places listing and a city landmark. Improvements also continued throughout the late 19th century. In 1871, Border Water was partially eliminated to make extra burial space, and in 1874, the cemetery was slightly expanded to 440 acres (180 ha). Also, an underground drainage system, extra roads, and

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3848-448: The late 20th century except for a ladies' shelter. In 2008, Green-Wood started to acquire a collection of art pertaining to those buried in the cemetery. Green-Wood Cemetery contains numerous landscape features, which in turn are named after terms that evoke a naturalistic scene. These names include Camellia Path, Halcyon Lake, Oaken Bluff, Sylvan Cliff, and Vista Hill. David Bates Douglass , Green-Wood's landscape architect, mostly kept

3922-475: The layout in 1838. He opposed an early suggestion to call the cemetery a necropolis , as he thought the landscaped site should also attract the living. On April 11, 1839, a modification to that act was enacted, changing the corporation to a nonprofit organization . Construction started in May 1839 and the first interment was performed on September 5, 1840. At that point, the cemetery commissioners decided to enclose

3996-538: The main gate at 25th Street to the northwest, which is closest to South Slope / Greenwood Heights , and Fort Hamilton Parkway to the south, which is in Kensington . Two additional gates exist. One of these, at 20th Street and Ninth Avenue, provides access from the northeast and is in Windsor Terrace . The other, at 34th Street and Fourth Avenue, provides access from the southwest and is located next to Sunset Park and

4070-477: The most since the 1960s. Books Newspapers Websites Green-Wood Cemetery Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in the western portion of Brooklyn , New York City . The cemetery is located between South Slope / Greenwood Heights , Park Slope , Windsor Terrace , Borough Park , Kensington , and Sunset Park , and lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park . Its boundaries include, among other streets, 20th Street to

4144-424: The north and south, as well as windows on the second, third, and attic floors that face north and south. The roof of the central tower contains a stone chimney. The Green-Wood Cemetery chapel is located near the 25th Street gate. Built in 1911–1913 by Warren and Wetmore , the chapel is located on the site of one of Green-Wood's original ponds. Though it is generally designed in the late Gothic style, its massing

4218-788: The north, which is flatter because it was acquired last. There are several notable monuments and mausoleums in the cemetery, designed in several styles including the Classical , Egyptian , Gothic , and Romanesque . Some of monuments and mausoleums were designed by popular architects of the time, including Minard Lafever , Richard Upjohn, and Warren and Wetmore . In addition, many tombs contain ornate sculptural decoration. The National Register of Historic Places designation subdivides these monuments into four primary categories: those honoring events or professions; those with architectural significance; those whose graves contain people of historical significance; and "monuments of sculptural interest". Among

4292-433: The northeast, Fifth Avenue to the northwest, 36th and 37th Streets to the southwest, Fort Hamilton Parkway to the south, and McDonald Avenue to the east. Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 as a rural cemetery , in a time of rapid urbanization when churchyards in New York City were becoming overcrowded. Described as "Brooklyn's first public park by default long before Prospect Park was created", Green-Wood Cemetery

4366-605: The public. Starting in 1974, the Lambs has donated thousands of important historic documents to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. As the club prepared to celebrate its sesquicentennial in 2024, it undertook a program to grow its membership. In 2023 author Kevin C. Fitzpatrick was elected the 36th Shepherd of The Lambs, and producer Don M. Spiro elected The Boy (vice president). The Lambs celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2024 by reaching 250 members,

4440-836: The site with a long picket fence (later replaced with a metal fence in 1860). Douglass mostly kept the cemetery's natural landscaping intact, working on the project until he resigned in 1841. Douglass modeled his two subsequently designed garden cemeteries upon Green-Wood: Albany Rural Cemetery (1845–1846), located in Menands, New York , and Mount Hermon Cemetery (1848), in Quebec City . Initially some 4.5 miles (7.2 km) of roads were paved inside Green-Wood to showcase its natural scenery. The earliest map dating from 1846 indicates that there were originally three ponds in Green-Wood: Sylvan Water, Green-Isle Water, and Arbor Water, all on

4514-412: The turn of the century, an old engine house, stables, and several enclosures were being removed, while waiting rooms and restrooms were added at the southern entrance. During this period, thousands of trees were planted, and roads continued to be graded. Most famous New Yorkers who died during the second half of the 19th century were buried at Green-Wood. Starting in 1862, free interments were offered to

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4588-445: The war effort. The old main entrance was demolished in 1951, and four years later, the first new crematorium in New York City in a half-century was built at Green-Wood, with a columbarium . By the end of the 1950s, another reservoir had been filled for new lots. More than 1,000 enclosures were removed from 1950 to 1961, the same year that work on a new crematorium began. The columbarium was expanded from 1975 to 1977. However, through

4662-545: The western side of the modern cemetery. There were initially very few burials per year; by 1843, there had been 352 burials total, though the number of burials doubled just in the next year. Throughout the 1840s, several churches were allocated plots in Green-Wood Cemetery. These included the Dutch Protestant Reformed , Episcopal , Presbyterian , Unitarian , and German Lutheran churches of Brooklyn. By

4736-650: Was a member of The Lambs in London that had been established in 1869 by John Hare . The name was unanimously adopted; it came from Charles and Mary Lamb , the English brother and sister who were friendly towards actors in Georgian England. In 1875 dinners were held in Union Square hotel restaurants; the original six invited their friends. By autumn 1875 the Lambs were meeting in the Union Square Hotel. The Members chose to increase by “sevens.” There were so many applications

4810-608: Was being constructed and public streetcar and elevated lines were established across Brooklyn . In particular, the opening of the Fifth Avenue Elevated station at 25th Street , near the main entrance, proved to be a benefit to lot owners in Green-Wood Cemetery. As a result, in 1876, Green-Wood built the Fort Hamilton gate to accommodate the anticipated extra crowds. By the end of the 19th century, several florists, greenhouses, and monument sellers had opened shops near each of

4884-459: Was created following the rededication ceremony of the Civil War Soldiers' Monument. These early graves had either sunk into the soil, been damaged, or had their markers erased before the monument was restored between 2000 and 2002. Further, construction of the last phase of the Hillside Mausoleum began in 2001, and the same year 50 victims of the September 11 attacks were buried there. By 2009, there

4958-410: Was drained. The landscape was in decline by the late 1910s, but this was followed shortly after by dead-tree removals in the 1920s and a five-year road repaving project began in 1924. Road reconstructions continued through the mid-1930s and demolition of enclosures continued. Notably, the clock tower at the 34th Street entrance was demolished in 1941, and iron fences were removed during World War II for

5032-519: Was followed by the restoration of the chapel in the late 1990s, and it reopened in 2000 after having been closed for four decades. In 1999, The Green-Wood Historic Fund, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit institution, was created to continue preservation, beautification , educational programs and community outreach as the current "working cemetery " evolves into a Brooklyn cultural institution . The Historic Fund's Civil War Project, an effort to identify and remember Civil War veterans buried at Green-Wood,

5106-416: Was for 65 acres (26 ha) at the southwest corner of the cemetery, adjacent to the contemporary border of the city of Brooklyn. Another 85 acres (34 ha) to the east was acquired in 1852 through the annexation of land in the then-separate village of Flatbush . Finally, in 1858 another 23 acres (9.3 ha) was acquired at the southeastern corner of the cemetery grounds. A plot at the southeast corner of

5180-425: Was little space for new interments at Green-Wood Cemetery. In December 2010, a memorial was unveiled for the 134 victims of the 1960 New York mid-air collision ; the cemetery contains the common grave in which were placed the remains of unidentified victims . On October 13, 2012, another Angel of Music was installed to replace the one vandalized in 1959, this one made by sculptors Giancarlo Biagi and Jill Burkee,

5254-471: Was on Broadway and 13th Street. During the Yuletide season George H. McLean invited actors of J. Lester Wallack’s company to dinner at Delmonico’s : Edward Arnott, Harry Beckett , Henry James Montague , and Arthur Wallack, the son of Mr. Wallack. They were joined by grocer John E. I. Grainger. In Delmonico's Blue Room it was suggested the men form a supper club. Many names were mentioned. Montague said that he

5328-496: Was so popular that it inspired a competition to design Central Park in Manhattan , as well as Prospect Park nearby. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997 and was made a National Historic Landmark in 2006. In addition, the 25th Street gates, the Weir Greenhouse , and the Fort Hamilton Parkway Gate & Green-Wood Cemetery Chapel were separately designated as city landmarks by

5402-564: Was the first president. In 1887 it was Lambs with the Actors Fund who established the first Actors’ Burial Ground in Brooklyn. Playwright Clay M. Greene suggested the Club put on its own shows, thus launching decades of Lambs’ Gambols. Notable members of this era were Maurice Barrymore , Nikola Tesla , and Stanford White . In 1895 there were 272 members. The Lambs would thrive into the Jazz Age, ultimately reaching more than 1,700 members before

5476-472: Was unveiled to memorialize Louis Moreau Gottschalk . Two weeks later, Hurricane Sandy toppled or damaged at least 292 of the mature trees, 210 gravestones, and 2 mausoleums in the cemetery. The damage was estimated at $ 500,000. In December 2012 the statue The Triumph of Civic Virtue by Frederick MacMonnies was moved to Green-Wood. In August 2013, in partnership with the Connecticut Society of

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