Evergreen Cemetery (Hillside, New Jersey)
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Evergreen Cemetery and Crematory is a cemetery and crematorium located at 1137 North Broad Street, Hillside, Union County, New Jersey. Parts of it are in Hillside, Elizabeth, and Newark.[2]
Evergreen Cemetery | |
Location | Elizabeth, Hillside and Newark, New Jersey, United States |
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Coordinates | 40°41′32″N 74°12′39″W |
Area | 115 acres (47 hectares) |
Architect | Multiple |
Architectural style | Mid-19th-century revival, late-19th- and 20th-century revivals, late Victorian |
NRHP reference No. | 91000882 [1] |
Added to NRHP | July 9, 1991 (32 years ago) (1991-07-09) |
The cemetery is listed on both the New Jersey Register[3] and the National Register of Historic Places,[4] since 1991.[5]
Notable graves include authors Stephen Crane, Mary Mapes Dodge and Edward Stratemeyer. Six former U.S. Congressmen (including one who became Senator) and one non-voting delegate (from Alaska) are buried there as well.
The cemetery also is known for having a section of plots devoted to Romani "gypsy" families.[6][7][8]
It is adjacent to Weequahic Golf Course.
King of the Gypsies was filmed there with Shelley Winters.[9]