Bruce Guthrie Photos: DC -- Rock Creek Cemetery

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Wikipedia Description: Rock Creek Cemetery
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Rock Creek Cemetery — also Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery — is an 86-acre (350,000 m2) cemetery with a natural rolling landscape located at Rock Creek Church Road, NW, and Webster Street, NW, in the Petworth neighborhood of Washington, D.C. It is adjacent to the historic Soldiers' Home and to the Soldiers' Home Cemetery.

Established in 1719, Rock Creek was designed as part of the rural garden style to function as both cemetery and public park. It is a ministry of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Rock Creek Parish.

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

Other notable memorials include the Frederic Keep Monument, the Heurich Mausoleum, the Hitt Monument, the Hardon Monument, the Kauffman Monument, known as The Seven Ages of Memory, the Sherwood Mausoleum Door, and the Thompson-Harding Monument.

On August 12, 1977, Rock Creek Cemetery and the adjacent church grounds were added to the National Register of Historic Places as Rock Creek Church Yard and Cemetery.

Notable interments:

* Cleveland Abbe (1838–1916), prominent American meteorologist (section M)
* Henry Adams (1838–1918), American writer, descendant of two U.S. Presidents. Grave is marked by the Adams Memorial (section E)
* Clover Hooper Adams (1843–1885), Washington hostess and accomplished amateur photographer, wife of Henry Adams. Grave is marked by the Adams Memorial (section E)
* Alice Warfield Allen (1869–1929), mother of the Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson (section G)
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1. ROCKCK_130218_110.JPG: Apparently a vandalized memorial.
2. ROCKCK_130218_182.JPG: I thought it was interesting how the third and fourth divorces got entered onto the stone. Apparently she felt a need to engrave the stone in detail before she had actually died.
3. ROCKCK_130218_214.JPG: Evelyn Y. Davis Queen of the Corporate Jungle 1929 - Forever
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