The Elmwood Cemetery Gates mark the east and north entrances to the Elmwood Cemetery in Sycamore, Illinois. The cast iron gates were likely built in 1865, the year the cemetery opened and the one emblazoned on the gates, though records of their construction have been lost. While cast iron was commonly used for building facades at the time, the gates are a rare example of its use in landscape architecture. The gates have a Serlian design with a wide central road entry and narrower pedestrian gates on either side; square columns separate the gates. An arch bearing the cemetery's name rises above the center entrance, while lintels span the side entrances; both the arch and the lintels feature ornamental designs. The Illinois Historic Structures Survey described the gates as the best extant ex

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • The Elmwood Cemetery Gates mark the east and north entrances to the Elmwood Cemetery in Sycamore, Illinois. The cast iron gates were likely built in 1865, the year the cemetery opened and the one emblazoned on the gates, though records of their construction have been lost. While cast iron was commonly used for building facades at the time, the gates are a rare example of its use in landscape architecture. The gates have a Serlian design with a wide central road entry and narrower pedestrian gates on either side; square columns separate the gates. An arch bearing the cemetery's name rises above the center entrance, while lintels span the side entrances; both the arch and the lintels feature ornamental designs. The Illinois Historic Structures Survey described the gates as the best extant example of iron cemetery gate design in the state. A number of prominent past citizens of both Sycamore and nearby DeKalb are buried in the cemetery. The gates have been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since November 28, 1978. (en)
dbo:location
dbo:nrhpReferenceNumber
  • 78003102
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 8855709 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 2490 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1014880053 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbo:yearOfConstruction
  • 1865-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
dbp:added
  • 1978-11-28 (xsd:date)
dbp:architecture
  • Serlian motif (en)
dbp:area
  • less than one acre (en)
dbp:built
  • 1865 (xsd:integer)
dbp:caption
  • The historic gates to the Elmwood Cemetery in Sycamore, Illinois. (en)
dbp:location
  • S. Cross and Charles Sts., Sycamore, Illinois (en)
dbp:locmapin
  • Illinois#USA (en)
dbp:name
  • Elmwood Cemetery Gates (en)
dbp:refnum
  • 78003102 (xsd:integer)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:wordnet_type
dcterms:subject
georss:point
  • 41.98388888888889 -88.69416666666666
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • The Elmwood Cemetery Gates mark the east and north entrances to the Elmwood Cemetery in Sycamore, Illinois. The cast iron gates were likely built in 1865, the year the cemetery opened and the one emblazoned on the gates, though records of their construction have been lost. While cast iron was commonly used for building facades at the time, the gates are a rare example of its use in landscape architecture. The gates have a Serlian design with a wide central road entry and narrower pedestrian gates on either side; square columns separate the gates. An arch bearing the cemetery's name rises above the center entrance, while lintels span the side entrances; both the arch and the lintels feature ornamental designs. The Illinois Historic Structures Survey described the gates as the best extant ex (en)
rdfs:label
  • Elmwood Cemetery Gates (en)
owl:sameAs
geo:geometry
  • POINT(-88.69416809082 41.983890533447)
geo:lat
  • 41.983891 (xsd:float)
geo:long
  • -88.694168 (xsd:float)
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Elmwood Cemetery Gates (en)
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License