The brownstone gothic gate with its parrots, then the hills of the old cemetery: monuments, mausoleums, the harbor glimpsed from the highest ground, the works on the vault doors.
Green-Wood Cemetery was founded in 1838 on 478 acres of hills in Brooklyn, laid out by David Bates Douglass. Richard Upjohn designed the Gothic Revival main gate at 25th Street in the 1860s, and a colony of monk parakeets now nests in its spires. Battle Hill, the highest point in Brooklyn, saw fighting in the Battle of Brooklyn in 1776, and the cemetery became a National Historic Landmark in 2006.
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The 1861 brownstone gatehouse with three spires and the monk parakeet nests, rolling glacial hills of obelisks and angels, granite mausoleums set into slopes, ancient trees in fall color, the harbor view from Battle Hill. Mood: autumn gold. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.