New Mount Sinai Cemetery
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| Location | 8430 Gravois Rd., Affton, Missouri |
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| Coordinates | 38°33′25″N 90°18′20″W / 38.55694°N 90.30556°W |
| Area | 28 acres (11 ha) |
| Architect | Pitzman, Julius; et al. |
| Architectural style | Greek Revival, Classical Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 05001434[1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 22, 2005 |
New Mount Sinai Cemetery is a 52-acre (21 ha) cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri. Its first burial was in 1853, and its rural cemetery landscape design was laid out in 1907.[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.[1] As of the 2005 listing, the cemetery also has a Modern-style community mausoleum, three private mausoleums (Art Deco, Modern, Neo-Classical), and a formal Japanese garden.[2]
Its listing includes 39 contributing buildings, 2 contributing sites, and 2 other contributing structures.[1] Deemed as contributing resources were:
- the 52-acre (21 ha) rural cemetery itself,
- its traditional, old Jewish graveyard, which are sections A, B, and F of the cemetery,
- the red granite and wrought iron gate,
- the monumental Art Deco entrance gate,
- Greek Revival chapel,
- Queen Anne "House of Comfort" building,
- 37(?) small mausoleums in Greek Revival, Egyptian Revival, Classical Revival, Art Deco, Modern styles.[2]
History[edit]
The cemetery has a chapel, built in 1905, which is no longer in use. It has a storage vault below to temporarily hold 4 caskets. The building housing the office, built in 1916, was originally a rest house and luncheon spot to accommodate the horse drawn funerals that took an entire day.[3]
There have been 10,925 people buried in the cemetery as of December 31, 2009. Besides the public mausoleum and single graves, there are 1,441 platted family lots, 40 private mausoleums, 2 memorial mausoleums, and 24 sarcophagi. The newest section of the cemetery, encompassing 5.5 acres of single graves and family lots, opened in the spring of 2008.[3]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ a b c Ann Morris (June 8, 2005). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: New Mount Sinai Cemetery" (PDF). State of Missouri. Retrieved March 20, 2017. With 38 photos, with photo descriptions commencing on page 49).
- ^ a b Cemetery, New Mt. Sinai. "New Mt. Sinai Cemetery | Our History | Founded 1850". newmtsinaicemetery.org. Retrieved 2018-02-09.
External links[edit]
- New Mount Sinai Cemetery, official site
- New Mount Sinai Cemetery at Find a Grave
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