Lake Forest Cemetery
Lake Forest, Lake County, Illinois, USA
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Lake Forest, Illinois 60045 United StatesCoordinates: 42.26750, -87.83220 - www.cityoflakeforest.com/city-services/cemetery/
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The Cemetery was mapped in 1860 using early park design aesthetics: curving, meandering lanes, natural topography, and a pastoral environment. In 1882, William LeBaron Jenney, known for designing Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, revised the original plat. He moved the entrance from Spruce to Lake Road, and he established an outer circulation road that winds around the cemetery. The Cemetery was officially opened for burials in 1882. Some people who had earlier been interred in Chicago were re-interred in Lake Forest.
In 1900, Ossian Cole Simonds, a founder of the Amer Soc of Landscape Architects and the superintendent of Graceland Cemetery, re-planned the site and perfected its grading, its broad open spaces, and its simple groups of trees (often low-limbed) and shrubs. He enclosed the property with plantings, creating more privacy, and used plantings to frame attractive vistas of Lake Michigan and its ravines.
The Barrell Memorial Entrance Gate was created in 1919 in the Gothic Revival style. James Roy Allen was its architect; the iron gates were made by Samuel Yellin.
The Cemetery was mapped in 1860 using early park design aesthetics: curving, meandering lanes, natural topography, and a pastoral environment. In 1882, William LeBaron Jenney, known for designing Graceland Cemetery in Chicago, revised the original plat. He moved the entrance from Spruce to Lake Road, and he established an outer circulation road that winds around the cemetery. The Cemetery was officially opened for burials in 1882. Some people who had earlier been interred in Chicago were re-interred in Lake Forest.
In 1900, Ossian Cole Simonds, a founder of the Amer Soc of Landscape Architects and the superintendent of Graceland Cemetery, re-planned the site and perfected its grading, its broad open spaces, and its simple groups of trees (often low-limbed) and shrubs. He enclosed the property with plantings, creating more privacy, and used plantings to frame attractive vistas of Lake Michigan and its ravines.
The Barrell Memorial Entrance Gate was created in 1919 in the Gothic Revival style. James Roy Allen was its architect; the iron gates were made by Samuel Yellin.
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- Added: 1 Jan 2000
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 106514
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