Glenwood Cemetery, Present Day

ID: 3490 ~ Source: Wiki Commons ~ Date: September 2014
This file appears in: Glenwood Cemetery Historic District
Glenwood Cemetery, Present Day
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Looking north on Lincoln Road NW at the entrance to Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C., in the United States. The gatehouse is to the left.

This file appears in: Glenwood Cemetery Historic District

Chartered by Congress in 1852, Glenwood Cemetery was the first for-profit cemetery in the District, and among the first nationwide. This business model, initially disdained as disrespectful to the deceased, has since been adopted by most cemeteries,…