Forest Lawn

Forest Lawn Cemetery Administration Building
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo, NY

Architect
George Cary

Erected
1906-07
See also: Highlights of Buffalo's History, 1907

Style
Classical Revival

Forest Lawn Cemetery Status
National Register of Historic Places

Forest Lawn Cemetery
Forest Lawn dates from 1850, but many of its graves go back before that, having been moved from earlier graveyards closer to downtown as the city expanded.

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View from Delaware Avenue entrance gate	Front entrance	Note Doric columns	Note transom, pilaster

Mutules, triglyphs, pilasters	Administration building is just inside (to the immediate left of the photo) the Forest Lawn Delaware Avenue entrance gate	Delaware Avenue entrance gate detail: note dentils, triglyphs, drops	George Cary's masterpiece: Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museum in nearby Delaware Park adjoining Forest Lawn Cemetery

Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museumdetail: note Mutules, triglyphs, drops, Doric column	Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society Museumdetail: Doric columns	Wrought iron detail from George Cary's home at 460 Franklin St.	George Cary

Architect	George Cary
Erected	1906-07 See also: Highlights of Buffalo's History, 1907
Style	Classical Revival
Forest Lawn Cemetery Status	National Register of Historic Places
Forest Lawn Cemetery	Forest Lawn dates from 1850, but many of its graves go back before that, having been moved from earlier graveyards closer to downtown as the city expanded.