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Benjamin Grove Cemetery Design Album |
Collection |
Benjamin Grove Cemetery Design Album |
Catalog Number |
991PC1 |
Date |
1856-1897 |
Description |
*Click Media button above for full item list (in-house only)* Album containing photographs of Benjamin Grove's cemetery and other designs, many of them hand-tinted. Album was assembled by Grove. Benjamin Grove (1823-1915) was born in Birmingham, England, in 1823. He immigrated to the United States before 1850 with his wife, Elizabeth Robinson, whom he married on May 23, 1848. The couple first settled in New Albany, Indiana. In 1851, Grove received his first commission for the design of St. Michael’s Cemetery in Louisville, Kentucky. Considered a prolific cemetery landscape architect, his skillset encompassed those of civil engineer, surveyor, mapmaker, and artist. Working primarily on the design of parks and cemeteries, Grove was also employed as a surveyor for the Fort Wayne and Indianapolis Railroad, and later for the Louisville & Nashville Railroad. Following the death of the Edmund Francis Lee-- the original planner of Cave Hill Cemetery-- in 1858, Benjamin Grove accepted the commission to continue the work started by Lee, designing sections A and P in the cemetry. In the 1880s, he added to the design of several more sections within the cemetery. Benjamin Grove’s active career extended from 1851 until 1909. His design work for cemeteries, parks, subdivisions, and institutional landscapes extends throughout Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and Texas. Cemetery designs in the album include: Page 1: Portrait of Benjamin Grove. Page 4: Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY, 1857 Page 5: Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, KY, 1875 Page 6: Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort KY, 1875, and Winchester Cemetery, Clark Co., 1886 Page 7: Fairview Cemetery, Bowling Green, KY, 1864 Page 8: Oak Hill Cemetery, Crawfordsville, IN, 1875 Page 9: Fleming County Cemetery, Flemingsburg, KY Page 10: Ashland Cemetery, Ashland, KY, 1872 Page 11: Midway Cemetery, Woodford County, KY, 1890 Page 12: Adath Isreal Cemetery, Louisville, KY, 1876 Page 13: Lexington Cemetery, Lexington, KY, 1858 Page 14: Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, LA, 1873 Page 16: Metairie Cemetery, New Orleans, LA, 1873 Page 17: Grove Hill Cemetery, Shelbyville, KY, 1856, and Landscape for Jos. I Younglove, Bowling Green, KY Page 18: Louisville City Hospital, Louisville, KY Page 19: Summer Residence for New Albany Knobs, New Albany, IN Page 20: Mound Israel Cemetery, Gallipolis, OH, 1874 Page 21: The Ridge Park Cemetery, Marshall, MO, Nazareth Institution, Nazareth, KY Page 22: Southern Park and the House of Refuge, Louisville, KY, 1860 Page 23: Design for a Public Park, Louisville, KY, 1860 Page 24: Frankfort Cemetery, Frankfort, KY, 1845 Page 25: Holly Wood Cemetery, Jackson, TN, 1887 Page 26: Fair View Property, Decatur, AL, 1838 Page 27: St. Mary's Catholic Church Cemetery, Louisville, KY Page 28: Saint Louis Catholic Cemetery, Louisville, KY, 1867 Page 29: Green Park Cemetery, Portland, IN, 1895, and "The Bluff" Park and Grounds, Clarksville, TN Page 30: Riverdale Cemetery, Columbus, GA, 1889, and Forest Hill Cemetery, Memphis, TN, 1893 Page 31: Greenwood Cemetery, Clarksville, TN, 1897, and Twin Hills Cemetery, Pennville, IN Page 32: Greenwood Cemetery, Clarksville, TN, 1872 Page 33: Fountain Park Cemetery, Winchester, IN, 1880 Page 34: The Collett Park, Terre Haute, IN, 1883 Page 35: Forest Hill Cemetery, Memphis, TN, 1893, and the The Southwestern Presbyterian University Grounds, Clarksville, TN, 1875 Page 37: Green Lawn Cemetery, Portsmouth, OH, 1873 Page 38: Subdivision of Suburban Property, Winchester, KY, 1888, and Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Geneva, OH, 1885 Page 39: Glenview Park Property, Louisville, KY Page 40: Southwestern Presbyterian University Grounds, Clarksville, TN, 1875, and Water Works Reservoirs and Park Grounds, Bowling Green, KY Page 41-42: Riverdale Cemetery, Columbus, GA, 1889 Page 43: Union City Cemetery, Union City, IN Page 44: Danville Cemetery, Danville, KY, 1890 Page 45-46: Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, KY Page 47: Bloomington Cemetery, Bloomington, IN, 1891 Page 49: Forest Hill Cemetery, Memphis, TN, 1893 Page 51-52: Oakland Cemetery, Dallas, TX, 1893 |
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