Forest Lawn Cemetery - Table of Contents
Forest Lawn Cemetery - Main Street Entrance Gate
Buffalo, NY
Forest Lawn Cemetery - Table of Contents
Forest Lawn Cemetery - Main Street
Entrance Gate
Buffalo, NY
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Architect |
Henry Osgood Holland Died in 1925 and is buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Section 16. |
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Builders |
McDonnell & Sons |
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Erected |
1901 |
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Style |
Classical Revival |
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Granite |
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Forest Lawn Cemetery Status |
National Register of Historic Places |
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Anthemion ornament |
Ball symbolizes unending life |
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Lodge east elevation Related page: |
Related page: Forest Lawn Delaware Entrance Gate |
Related page: Forest Lawn Cemetery Administration Building |
Related page: Roman triumphal arch at Orange, France |
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2002 PHOTO |
Henry Osgood Holland |
Much of the cemetery was part of the Erastus Granger Farm, Flint Hill, whose farmhouse occupied a site about where the imposing Main Street entrance arch now stands.
Preparation for the Pan-American Exposition began in earnest in 1899. Forest lawn Cemetery joined in the elaborate civic arrangements by sponsoring a contest to design a new entrance gate to be erected on Main Street at Delavan Avenue. There were 31 plans submitted by 29 separate architects. Buffalo architect Henry Osgood Holland won the contest with a heroic triumphal arch. It towers 40 feet spanning the entrance road and incorporates pavilion gatehouses on either side. The cost of the gate was $40,000, a substantial sum 100 years ago.
The arch, complete with supporting lodges, was officially dedicated in 1901 and was an often-visited site by patrons from the nearby Pan-American Exposition grounds.The gate is in the form of a Roman triumphal arch symbolically representing the eternal hope that ìdeath be swallowed up in victory.î
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