Green Hill Cemetery Historic District is a national historic district located at Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia. The 15-acre (6.1 ha) site encompasses two contributing buildings, one contributing site, and 22 contributing objects. The rural cemetery was designed in 1854 by David Hunter Strother modeled on a French cemetery. It includes a Neoclassical Revival style mausoleum (1917–1918) and a Shingle Style caretaker's lodge (1901). The cemetery includes a number of notable monuments, as well as the graves of Strother and his family.[2][3]
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| Location | 486 E. Burke St., Martinsburg, West Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 39°27′13″N 77°57′20″W / 39.45361°N 77.95556°W |
| Area | 19 acres (7.7 ha) |
| Architect | Small, Wendell S.; Strother, David Hunter |
| Architectural style | Shingle Style |
| MPS | Berkeley County MRA |
| NRHP reference No. | 80004433 [1] |
| Added to NRHP | December 10, 1980 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]
Burials within the cemetery include that of actor Robert Barrat (1889–1970), George Meade Bowers (1863–1925), a Representative from 1916 to 1923 and David Hunter Strother (1816–1888), a noted artist, journalist and brevet brigadier general in the Union Army.
References edit
- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Tony P. Wrenn (November 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Green Hill Cemetery Historic District" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
- ^ Chambers, S. Allen Jr. (September 6, 2023). Buildings of West Virginia. Oxford University Press. p. 531. ISBN 978-0-19-516548-7.