Boxwood Cemetery

	Boxwood Cemetery
	U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Location	3717 N. Gravel Rd., Medina, New York
Coordinates	43°14′04″N 78°23′59″W / 43.23444°N 78.39972°W
Area	19.39 acres (7.85 ha)
Built	1849, 1903, 1925
Built by	Harry Ellis
Architect	Levan Merritt, Adam Garter, Albert L. Swett, Charles Ingersol
Architectural style	Gothic Revival
NRHP reference No.	13000450
Added to NRHP	January 27, 2015

Boxwood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at Medina in Orleans County, New York. The cemetery was established in 1849, and is the resting place of many early settlers. The cemetery includes approximately 5,000 marked burials in the cemetery, spanning from 1849 until the present day. It features entrance ways flanked by Medina sandstone columns and wrought-iron gates built in 1925. Located in the cemetery is a Gothic Revival style chapel built in 1903 of rough-cut red Medina sandstone.^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2015.^[1]

Boxwood is about 20 acres of land. It is located at the northwestern edge of the Village of Medina. Though portions of the cemetery are also in the Town of Ridgeway, the Village of Medina owns and operates the cemetery.^[3]

Notable burials[edit]

Silas Mainville Burroughs (1810–1860), US Congressman
George Kennan (1845-1924), American explorer and author

Gallery[edit]

Boxwood Cemetery gates
Boxwood Cemetery entry building
Boxwood Cemetery hillside
Boxwood Cemetery marker

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 1/26/15 through 1/30/15. National Park Service. 2015-02-06.
^ "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on July 1, 2015. Retrieved 2015-11-01. Note: This includes Todd Bensley and Jennifer Walkowski (September 2014). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Boxwood Cemetery" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-11-01. and Accompanying photographs
^ Bensley, Todd (2018). Boxwood Cemetery. Where the past is present. p. 10.

External links[edit]

Boxwood Cemetery at Find a Grave

[nps-1] "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 1/26/15 through 1/30/15. National Park Service. 2015-02-06.

[NysNrhpNom-2] "Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original (Searchable database) on July 1, 2015. Retrieved 2015-11-01. Note: This includes Todd Bensley and Jennifer Walkowski (September 2014). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Boxwood Cemetery" (PDF). Retrieved 2015-11-01. and Accompanying photographs

[3] Bensley, Todd (2018). Boxwood Cemetery. Where the past is present. p. 10.

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