7-635: Maple Grove Cemetery may refer to: Maple Grove Cemetery (Queens) , New York City, New York, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Queens County, New York Maple Grove Cemetery (Mason, Michigan) , listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Ingham County, Michigan Maple Grove Cemetery, Frewsburg, New York Maple Grove Cemetery, Hoosick Falls, New York Topics referred to by
14-549: A memorial to the 21 people interred at Maple Grove who died in the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center . There are approximately 83,000 interments, with approximately 30,000 of them in the Monumental Park section. In Memorial Park the new Center at Maple Grove building, designed by architect Peter Gisolfi, was opened in 2009. The Maple Grove offices were moved from the old Victorian Administration Building into
21-521: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Maple Grove Cemetery (Queens) Maple Grove Cemetery is a historic cemetery at 127-15 Kew Gardens Road in Briarwood / Kew Gardens, Queens , New York City , New York . It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2004. Maple Grove is a 65-acre cemetery established in 1875 on
28-423: The "Backbone of Long Island" by Colonel William Sterling Cogswell and business associates. It consists of two sections; Monumental Park and Memorial Park. The Victorian Era Monumental Park was the first section opened in 1875 and laid out in the rural cemetery tradition with panoramic winding roads through a forest covered hilly terrain, with the original entrance at Queens Boulevard . The Lodge Building, located at
35-675: The Center. It also houses the Celebration Hall, Community Room, the Columbarium etc. A third entrance was created next to the Center on Kew Gardens Road at 129th Street. The Friends of Maple Grove Cemetery, Inc. is a not-for-profit, membership organization with the purposes of supporting and enhancing the operations of Maple Grove Cemetery, located in Kew Gardens, Queens, New York. Friends members desire to increase public knowledge and appreciation of
42-752: The Queens Boulevard entrance, and the Receiving Tomb were erected in 1875. The Victorian Administration Building was erected in 1880 at the Lefferts Boulevard and Kew Gardens Road Entrance. All were designed by noted New York City architect James E. Ware (1846–1918). The Memorial Park section was opened in 1943. The Lodge was torn down and the original Queens Boulevard Entrance was moved further south on Queens Boulevard , next to Briarwood subway station ( E , F , and <F> trains). Memorial Park's Presidential Circle includes
49-437: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Maple Grove Cemetery . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Maple_Grove_Cemetery&oldid=1077280070 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
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