Green-Wood Cemetery
In 1999, The Green-Wood Historic Fund, a not-for-profit institution, was created to help the cemetery evolve into a Brooklyn cultural institution through preservation, beautification, educational programs and community outreach. The cemetery, located southwest of Prospect Park, was one of the first to be designed as a naturalistic landscape in the romantic English manner, and has been a popular park-like attraction from the 1850’s to the present. The grounds include numerous famous monuments, a varied topology of rolling hills, dales and ponds, and a variety of mature trees and planted areas equal to that of an arboretum.
QRP’s first project was a collaboration on a cultural landscape report for the cemetery, compiling archival materials from the last 150 years and creating a master plan to guide future development and preservation efforts. Based on the firm’s work, the cemetery secured National Historic Landmark status in 2006.
Following this work, QRP was retained as the Cemetery’s sole landscape consultant, for a twelve-year period during which time the firm designed and constructed the Tranquility Gardens Columbarium, the last buirial site in the cemetery, Locust Grove - the last burial site in the cemetery, several smaller memorials, and the design for the reconstruction of the Battle Hill Monument.
Location
Brooklyn, NY
Client
Green-Wood Cemetery
Role
Prime Consultant
Team
PBDW, David Grider Architect
Photography: Barrett Doherty
