nationalhistoriclandmark

Merchant's House Museum www.merchantshouse.com/ From Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant's_House_Museum Merchant's House Museum, known formerly as Old Merchant's House and as the Seabury Tredwell House, is a Federal-style red-brick row house built in 1832 by Joseph Brewster. It is located at 29 East Fourth Street, between Lafayette Street and the Bowery,Manhattan, New York City. It was designed by Minard Lafever. It became a museum in 1936 and is the only nineteenth century family home in New York City preserved intact - both inside and outside.

This is New York City's Trinity Church (Richard Upjohn, 1846). Excuse the self-linking, but here's a panorama showing the modern interior.

"Coronation" ceremony? In an Episcopal cathedral? I doubt it. Might have been an ordination or bishop's investiture.

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Anglican, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

Yes, stefkagoil, certainly not a coronation. Possibly a celebration ceremony for the coronation of George V, June 1911.

The history of Mount Auburn Cemetery: "Mount Auburn Cemetery has been designated a National Historic Landmark by the Department of the Interior, recognizing it as one of the country's most significant cultural landscapes. Founded in 1831, it was the first large-scale designed landscape open to the public in the United States. Today its beauty, historical associations and horticultural collections are internationally renowned." More: www.mountauburn.org/national_landmark/history.cfm

i wonder what southworth and hawes were doing traipsing around a cometary. i think they must have been really cool people. uninhibited.

at the time, cemeteries were better taken care of than now. It's because families were generally alot closer (including extended families living in the same houses or even next to each other). Since parks were few, people would have picnics, clean the family plots, and so on. Photographing cemeteries may be "rare" now and then, but some of us do still enjoy the same past time. :)

Winchester house is better.

The concept of "landscape architecture" was in its infancy at this time. As noted above, the idea was to turn the cemetery into a public space that could be aesthetically enjoyed by all. This and other cemeteries like it across the U.S. would become the site of family outings, picnics, etc., even for people who had no loved ones buried there. The presence of a camera crew would be unusual only to the extent that cameras were somewhat rare in the 1850's.