A Garden Cemetery
by Cora Wandel
Title
A Garden Cemetery
Artist
Cora Wandel
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Photograph
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In the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. is Oak Hill Cemetery, one of the most famous garden park cemeteries in the United States. It was established around 1850 and its history is largely 19th Century, with a lot of Civil War era graves. The cemetery's most identifiable feature is its landscape of gardens, which bloom gloriously throughout spring and summer, and then in autumn the trees are ablaze with color. The cemetery's garden landscape is an example of the 19th Century Romantic Movement, and visitors are encouraged to enjoy and marvel at the beauty of nature as they walk among the somber tombstones of the dead.
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May 18th, 2013
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