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The Cincinnati cemetery of Spring Grove, report for 1857.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1857 Spring
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Spring Grove Cemetery (Cincinnati, Ohio)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Spring Grove Cemetery (Cincinnati, Ohio).
- Cemeteries--Ohio--Cincinnati.
- Cemeteries.
- Sepulchral monuments--Ohio--Cincinnati.
- Sepulchral monuments.
- Physical Description:
- 147 p., 49 leaves of plates ; 23 cm.
- Other Title:
- Spring Grove Cemetery
- Place of Publication:
- Cincinnati : C. F. Bradley, printers, 1857.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Illustrations: Lithographs, chiefly done by Ehrgott & Forbiger and Middleton, Wallace & Co. from photographs by J.P. Ball & Thomas. Folded plan at the end, engraved by Munson & Smith.
- Binding: In brown cloth with blind stamp on both sides; front board has gilt title.
- Spring Grove was originally laid out in 1845 by J. Notman of Philadelphia, but the most significant design work there was carried out by the landscape architect Adolf Strauch. Strauch was born in Prussia and studied landscape gardening ... He settled in Cincinnati and designed numerous parks and private grounds in that area, but his greatest fame lay in the work he did at Spring Grove, where he created the first cemetery laid along the principles of a landscape park.
- His lawn plan for Spring Grove ... was revolutionary in that it established a unified picturesque landscape where a few stone monuments and sculptures, enframed by trees, would provide memorials to the dead ... Such visual unification of the landscape had been lacking in earlier garden cemeteries. Cf. Noel Dorsey Vernon, Pioneers of American landscape design, p. 117.
- OCLC:
- 2057035
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