Green Hill Cemetery Historic District
Green Hill Cemetery Historic District is located in West Virginia
Green Hill Cemetery Historic District
Green Hill Cemetery Historic District is located in the United States
Green Hill Cemetery Historic District
Location486 E. Burke St., Martinsburg, West Virginia
Coordinates39°27′13″N 77°57′20″W / 39.45361°N 77.95556°W / 39.45361; -77.95556
Area19 acres (7.7 ha)
ArchitectSmall, Wendell S.; Strother, David Hunter
Architectural styleShingle Style
MPSBerkeley County MRA
NRHP reference No.80004433 [1]
Added to NRHPDecember 10, 1980

Green Hill Cemetery Historic District is a national historic district located at Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia. The 15-acre (6.1 ha) site encompasses two contributing buildings, one contributing site, and 22 contributing objects. The rural cemetery was designed in 1854 by David Hunter Strother modeled on a French cemetery. It includes a Neoclassical Revival style mausoleum (1917–1918) and a Shingle Style caretaker's lodge (1901). The cemetery includes a number of notable monuments, as well as the graves of Strother and his family.[2][3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.[1]

Burials within the cemetery include that of actor Robert Barrat (1889–1970), George Meade Bowers (1863–1925), a Representative from 1916 to 1923 and David Hunter Strother (1816–1888), a noted artist, journalist and brevet brigadier general in the Union Army.

References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ↑ Tony P. Wrenn (November 1978). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Green Hill Cemetery Historic District" (PDF). State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
  3. ↑ Chambers, S. Allen Jr. (September 6, 2023). Buildings of West Virginia. Oxford University Press. p. 531. ISBN 978-0-19-516548-7.
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