175 Years of Reflections, Laurel Hill Cemetery, 1836-2011. Millionaires Row is lined with the mausoleums of the new money industrialists and financiers who dominated Philadelphia after the Civil War. [4] With these additions, the cemetery reached the current size of approximately 95 acres. These images of Clevelands automotive industry will leave you in awe. In the foreground, two equestrians canter through the picturesque rural landscape. 1920 photo shows Walter Scott on the left and Old Mortality atop a gravestone, observed by a pony and a bust of James Thom. He also spearheaded the use of kerosene stoves. One of the preeminent collections of Victorian and Edwardian architecture in the South, Millionaires' Row is a symbol of Danville's -- and the South's -- history. They raised funds to restore landscaping, public buildings, and hundreds of monuments. They decided that it was and they then went in search of a place to build a hospital. Johnson served as the Mayor of Cleveland from 1901 to 1909. Widener (1834-1915). So it took a court battle to see if a rehabilitation hospital would be the same as the convalescent hospital that Anna Justina had in mind. The cemetery features a special section, nicknamed Millionaire's Row, for all of the most wealthy residents that it holds. By the 1920s, a suburban exodus to "the Heights" east of the city illustrated that the very prosperity created by the denizens of Euclid Avenue ultimately displaced their grand homes. Now you have to figure that this is a Disston house. Bring your print to life with hundreds of different frame and mat combinations. Like the Philadelphians who journeyed to the rural cemetery in the nineteenth century, visitors once again used the cemetery for recreation and relaxation amidst its beautiful landscape. There are no comments for Henry Disston Monument on Millionaires' Row at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. Building/structure dates: 1864-1865 Subsequent Work, - Famous and Curious Cemeteries. John Notman also designed a chapel for Laurel Hill in the newly popular Gothic Revival style. The preferred way of reaching Laurel Hill was to take a steamboat from a pier near the Fairmount Water Works, traveling up the Schuylkill River to the Laurel Hill landing. Then he would say, Now watch mine. He would take the hammer and his wouldnt break. By 1900, the overcrowded cemetery was hemmed in by an industrial neighborhood on its north and east sides, and by Fairmount Park to its south.