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Lake View Cemetery (Ithaca, New York)

Lake View Cemetery (Ithaca, New York)

Historic cemetery in Tompkins County, New York


Lake View Cemetery is a historic cemetery in the city of Ithaca, in Tompkins County, New York named for its original view of nearby Lake Cayuga.

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The Cornell Family mausoleum, designed by William Henry Miller

History

The cemetery was established in 1894. It includes an Egyptian Revival style mausoleum and receiving vault, a distinctive serpentine road system and architectural works by William Henry Miller and Liberty Hyde Bailey.[1]

Lake View Cemetery was hit with a series of embezzlement scandals in the twenty-first century. In 2006, a groundskeeper pled guilty to stealing $87,709 from the cemetery.[2] In 2014, a former caretaker and president of Lake View Cemetery was charged with embezzling over $50,000 and "selling or giving away" much of the cemetery's equipment.[2] The cemetery is currently in operation, selling burial lots and providing burial services.[3]

Notable burials

Given its proximity to Cornell University, the cemetery includes a number of significant figures from the university's history, including members of the Cornell family, and the graves of faculty members.


References

  1. "Cemetery History". Lake View Cemetery. Archived from the original on August 7, 2022. Retrieved August 8, 2022.
  2. Hart, Glynis (March 19, 2014). "Lakeview Cemetery Tries to Regroup After Embezzlement". ithaca.com. Archived from the original on July 30, 2014. Retrieved September 14, 2019.
  3. "Cemetery Home Page". Lake View Cemetery. Archived from the original on November 2, 2023. Retrieved November 2, 2023.

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