Beech Grove Cemetery
1400 W. Kilgore Ave., Muncie, Indiana
Photos
Beech Grove Cemetery
1. Main gate - view looking northwest
Photo from the Historic American Buildings Survey
Map
Description
The Beech Grove Cemetery contains more history of Muncie and Delaware County than any other area. The grounds are eligible for inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places. Since its inception in 1841, the cemetery was the only significant burial ground in Muncie for nearly a century. The 152-year-old cemetery contains many ornate family mausoleums and monuments of Muncie's early industrialists. The cemetery also contains graves of veterans from the Revolutionary War to the Vietnam War. The cemetery is of local significance. -- Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS IN-245)National Register information
- Status
- Posted to the National Register of Historic Places on June 25, 1999
- Reference number
- 99000734
- Areas of significance
- Landscape Architecture; Architecture
- Level of significance
- Local
- Evaluation criteria
- C - Design/Construction
- Property type
- District
- Historic function
- Cemetery
- Current function
- Cemetery
- Periods of significance
- 1825-1849; 1850-1874; 1875-1899; 1900-1924; 1925-1949
- Significant years
- 1841; 1904; 1923
- Number of properties
- Contributing buildings: 1
Contributing structures: 21
Contributing sites: 1
Contributing objects: 11
Non-contributing buildings: 4
Non-contributing structures: 3
Sources
- HABS IN-245 - Beech Grove Cemetery
- National Register database - Reference number 99000734
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