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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. ROCKCK_970801_023.JPG: Rock Creek Cemetery; Samuel Kaufmann ("Memory") Two views of the memorial to Samuel Kaufmann, the publisher of the Washington Evening Star. I love the way the figure in the front is thinking sadly of the various memories etched in the panels behind her.
2. ROCKCK_970801_024.JPG: Rock Creek Cemetery; Samuel Kaufmann ("Memory") Another view.
3. ROCKCK_970801_029.JPG: Rock Creek Cemetery; Kelly & Saunders John Thompson and Oliver Hudson Kelly founded "The Grange". This is their two-faced memorial. Interestingly, Thompson went with a memorial showing himself while Kelly went with a female figure.
4. ROCKCK_970801_030.JPG: Rock Creek Cemetery; Kelly & Saunders Another view.
5. ROCKCK_970801_031.JPG: Rock Creek Cemetery; William Boardman ("Journey Through Life") Another memorial.
6. ROCKCK_970801_032.JPG: Rock Creek Cemetery; William Boardman ("Journey Through Life") Another memorial. The steeple of the church can be seen behind it.
7. ROCKCK_970801_033.JPG: Rock Creek Cemetery; William Hibbs (Gothic Chapel Mausoleum) This one amazed me. It's a memorial to a Washington banker. Note that it is a complete Gothic Chapel, twice as tall as any surrounding mausoleums.
8. ROCKCK_970801_036.JPG: Rock Creek Cemetery; St Paul's Episcopal Church This is a picture of St Paul's Episcopal Church, the oldest church in Washington DC. The "Journey Through Life" memorial can be seen on the right.
9. ROCKCK_970801_037.JPG: Rock Creek Cemetery; St Paul's Episcopal Church Another picture of it.
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Wikipedia Description: Rock Creek Cemetery
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Rock Creek Cemetery is an 86-acre (350,000 m2) cemetery with a natural and rolling landscape located at Rock Creek Church Road, NW, and Webster Street, NW, off Hawaii Avenue, NE, in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States. It is across the street from the historic Soldiers' Home and the Soldiers' Home Cemetery. It also is home to the InterFaith Conference of Metropolitan Washington. On August 12, 1977, Rock Creek Cemetery and the adjacent church grounds were listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery.

History

The cemetery was first established in 1719, under the British colony of the Province of Maryland, as a churchyard within the glebe of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish. Later, the Vestry decided to expand the burial ground as a public cemetery to serve the city of Washington, D.C., which had acquired the cemetery, within its district boundaries as established in 1791, formerly, being a part of the state of Maryland, and formally established through an Act of Congress in 1840.
Rock Creek Cemetery statuary

An expanded cemetery was landscaped in the rural garden style, to function as both a cemetery and a public park. It is a ministry of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish, with sections for St. John's Russian Orthodox Church and St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral.

The park-like setting of Rock Creek Cemetery has many notable mausoleums, sculptures, and tombstones. The best known is the Adams Memorial, a contemplative, androgynous bronze sculpture seated before a block of granite that was created by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White. It marks the graves of Marian Hooper 'Clover' Adams and her husband, Henry Adams, and sometimes, mistakenly, the sculpture is referred to as Grief. Saint-Gaudens entitled it The Mystery of the Hereafter and The Peace of God that Passeth Understanding.

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