Spring Grove Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut)

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Spring Grove Cemetery (Hartford, Connecticut) - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 41°46′58″N 72°40′46″W / 41.7828775°N 72.6795373°W

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Spring Grove Cemetery
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district


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Location	2035 Main St., Hartford, Connecticut
Coordinates	41°46′58″N 72°40′46″W / 41.7828775°N 72.6795373°W / 41.7828775; -72.6795373
Area	33.7 acres (13.6 ha)
Built	1844 (1844)
Architect	Clunnie, Thomas M.
Architectural style	Mid 19th Century Revival, Late 19th And 20th Century Revivals
NRHP reference No.	08001203^[1]
Added to NRHP	January 20, 2011

Spring Grove Cemetery is a cemetery on Main Street in the Clay-Arsenal neighborhood of Hartford, Connecticut. Established in 1845, it is one of the city's oldest cemeteries, and its first private non-sectarian cemetery. Its burials include a number of the city's high-profile civic and business leaders, as well as a substantial indigent population, and artist Frederic Edwin Church. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2011.^[1]

Description and history

Spring Grove Cemetery is located north of downtown Hartford, on the west side of Main Street between Mahl Avenue and Capen Street in the Clay-Arsenal neighborhood. Overall, it covers about 34 acres (14 ha) of flat terrain that has some gentle undulations. It is accessed via a wrought iron archway on Main Street, which provides access to its network of circulating roads. Those roads are laid out in a rectilinear grid, and are finished in a combination of pavement, gravel, and grass. The oldest monument is that of the Page family, and is dated 1845. Its basic layout has been little altered since its founding, and it retains most of its 19th-century features; a memorial chapel built in 1884 was destroyed by fire in 1904.^[2]

The land on which the cemetery was established was farmland owned by the Page family when Stephen Page buried his wife there in 1845. The Pages then proceeded to sell burial plots (in contrast to typical cemetery practice of selling a right to interment) to others. In 1864 a number of plot owners banded together to purchase the entire cemetery, establishing the non-profit association that now manages the property three years later. In 1884, the association hired landscape designer Thomas Brown McClunnie to lay out the cemetery's northwest quadrant. In contrast to the rural cemetery movement, McClunnie's parklike setting emphasized a simple rectangular layout, rather than winding lanes that conformed to local topography.^[2]

Notable burials

Frances Ellen Burr (1831-1923)^[3]
Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900)^[4]
Ezra Clark Jr. (1813–1896)
Laurent Clerc (1785–1869)^[5]
Henry C. Deming (1815–1872)
William W. Eaton (1816–1898)
E. Hart Fenn (1856–1939)
Lydia Sigourney (1791–1865)^[6]
Henry Clay Work (1832–1884)

References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ ^a ^b "NRHP nomination for Spring Grove Cemetery" (PDF). Hartford Preservation. Retrieved 2017-11-26.
^ "Funeral of Miss Frances E. Burr Tomorrow". Hartford Courant. 1923-02-11. p. 8. Retrieved 2022-11-12 – via Newspapers.com.
^ McEnroe, Colin (July 12, 1995). "A Tidy Resting Place for Famed Artist". The Hartford Courant. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
^ Stansbury, Robin (April 18, 1998). "New Headstone for Educator Unveiled". The Hartford Courant. Retrieved April 13, 2020.
^ Palm, Christine (February 12, 2006). "Burial Ground Looking Up". The Hartford Courant. Retrieved April 13, 2020.

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