Rosehill Cemetery
Rosehill Cemetery, was founded in 1864, is an American cemetery on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, and at 350 acres (1.4 km2), is the largest cemetery in the City of Chicago. The name "Rosehill" came from a City Clerk's error – the area was previously called "Roe's Hill".[1] It is located in the north east section of the Lincoln Square community area.
The Rosehill Cemetery Administration Building and Entry Gate was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
Like its sister cemetery Graceland, Rosehill is the burial place of many well-known Chicagoans. The cemetery contains many monuments that are notable for their beauty and eccentricity, such as that of Lulu Fellows.[2]
Many famous Chicagoans are buried here such as: Lester L. Bond, Levi Boone, Jack Brickhouse, Harvey Doolittle Colvin, DeWitt Clinton Cregier, Charles G. Dawes, Robert Franks, Augustus Garrett, John Charles Haines, Alexander Loyd, Roswell B. Mason, Isaac Lawrence Milliken, Buckner Stith Morris, Richard B. Ogilvie, John Blake Rice, John A. Roche, Richard Warren Sears, John G. Shedd, William Stratton, George Bell Swift, Aaron Montgomery Ward, and John Wentworth.
Rosehill Cemetery Media
- Rosehill Cemetery Company 1894 ad in The Press Club of Chicago - a history, with sketches of other prominent press clubs of the United States (IA pressclubofchica00infree) (page 6 crop).jpg
Roseville Cemetery Company, 1894 advertisement
Rose Hill train station, 1885
Entrance and Administrative Building
Original entrance to the mausoleum
John Shedd memorial chapel
Horatio N. May Chapel at Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago
Our Heroes, 1870. Sculptor: Leonard Volk (1828-1895). Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois.
Chicago Light Artillery *Monument
- Bridges Battery May 24 2025.jpg
The monument was erected in memory the deceased soldiers of the Bridges' Battery Illinois Light Artillery. Rosehill Cemetery, Chicago 1870,
- Chicago Volunteer Firefighters Memorial by Leonard Volk -- Rosehill Cemetery Chicago (IL) April 2012 (6943021748)~2.jpg
Volunteer Firemen's Monument
References
- ↑ "Revisiting Roe's Hill and Our Shoreline". edgewaterhistory.org.
- ↑ Matt Hucke (2010). "Rosehill Cemetery and Mausoleum: Lulu Fellows". Graveyards.com. Retrieved 2015-08-25.
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