Green Hill Cemetery Historic District Explained

Green Hill Cemetery Historic District
Nrhp Type:hd
Nocat:yes
Location:486 E. Burke St., Martinsburg, West Virginia
Coordinates:39.4536°N -77.9556°W
Architect:Small, Wendell S.; Strother, David Hunter
Architecture:Shingle Style
Added:December 10, 1980
Refnum:80004433

Green Hill Cemetery Historic District is a national historic district located at Martinsburg, Berkeley County, West Virginia. The 15acres site encompasses two contributing buildings, one contributing site, and 22 contributing objects. The rural cemetery was designed in 1854 by David Hunter Strother modeled on a French cemetery. It includes a Neoclassical Revival style mausoleum (1917–1918) and a Shingle Style caretaker's lodge (1901). The cemetery includes a number of notable monuments, as well as the graves of Strother and his family.[1] [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.

Burials within the cemetery include that of actor Robert Barrat (1889–1970), George Meade Bowers (1863–1925), a Representative from 1916 to 1923 and David Hunter Strother (1816–1888), a noted artist, journalist and brevet brigadier general in the Union Army.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Green Hill Cemetery Historic District. November 1978. 2011-06-02 . Tony P. Wrenn. State of West Virginia, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Historic Preservation.
  2. Book: Chambers . S. Allen Jr. . Buildings of West Virginia . September 6, 2023 . Oxford University Press . 978-0-19-516548-7 . 531.